Pedagogy with Women

PURPOSE

Present the Gender Subcommittee’s work on gender integration in the Peace Agreement, explaining the content related to this approach and the special role of women’s organizations in peacebuilding in Colombia.

IMPLEMENTATION DATES
2016
WHO DID IT TARGET?
  • Women
REACH
1.500

Women participated

ACTIVITIES
  • Dissemination of materials on the gender approach
  • Workshops or explanatory sessions on the Agreement’s gender approach
  • Reflection gatherings with representatives from national-level women’s organizations that supported the peace process
PLACE OF OCCURRENCE
IMPLEMENTING PARTIES
  • Office of the High Commissioner for Peace (OACP in Spanish)
  • UN Women
  • United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
FUNDERS
  • OACP
  • UN Women
  • UNDP
LECCIONES APRENDIDAS
  • It is necessary to form a specialized, formally established, and long-term group on gender issues to ensure gender is integrated into all agreements.
  • It is important to create participatory spaces for decision-making with organizations and experts in the gender approach (women and LGBTIQ+ people), guaranteeing a plurality of voices and perspectives.

Resources

Pedagogical material

Peace is with me: Women as peacebuilding protagonists

Cartilla pedagogica para la paz, con información sobre los principales elementos del Enfoque de género en el acuerdo de paz. Este material se desarrolló para evidenciar la incorporación transversal el enfoque de género en las actividades de pedagogía sobre los avances en las negociaciones de la Mesa de Conversaciones, de la mano con organizaciones de […]