Mapping Collaborative Initiatives on Women, Peace and Security in the Philippines and Exploring Institutional Entry Points for Women's Protection in Armed Conflict in the

ASEAN

The Responsibility to Protect @ 10Panel on “Strengthening Women’s Rights: The Prevention of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict and Humanitarian Emergencies”27 February 2015Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Ma. Lourdes Veneracion-RallonzaAteneo de Manila Universitymrallonza@ateneo.edu

Institutional Discursive Backdrop: International

rape and sexual

violence

General Recommendations

19, 28, 30

women in armed conflict

women in peacebuilding

sexual violence in armed conflict

Institutional Discursive Backdrop: International

Institutional Discursive Backdrop: ASEAN Countries

INDONESIAPresidential Decree

Number 182014(March 2014)

PHILIPPINESNAP on UNSCRs 1325 &

1820(March 2010)

PHILIPPINESNAP on WPS(amended)

(October 2014)

Institutional Discursive Backdrop: National

Chapter IV, Sections 9, 10, 15 Protection of women during armed conflict

and crisis situations and women in the security sector

Chapter 9 on Peace and Security Ensure women’s participation in the peace process (Track 1) and in conflict resolution,

peacebuilding, and post-conflict rehabilitation (grassroots)

Philippine National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security

Road map for the implementation of UNSCRs 1325 and 1820

EO 865Creation of National Steering Committee on

Women, Peace and Security (NAP WPS)Institutional structure to implement NAP

2014 Philippine NAP WPS Results Framework

Protection and Prevention

Empowerment and Participation

Promotion and Mainstreaming/Monitoring

and Evaluation

• Immediate and sustained protection

• Access to justice• Healing, rehabilitation, and

development

• Women in Track 1 peace processes, security sector, grassroots peacebuilding

• Institutionalization of WPS in policies, programs, services

• Documentation

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National Initiatives

• OPAPP-PCW Joint Memorandum Agreement

• NAP WPS-related agency policies

Policy

• WPS in programs and services of PAMANA-implementing agencies

Programs and Services • Gender and Conflict

Sensitivity Training for Security Sector

• Gender and Conflict Sensitivity Training for Frontline Agencies

Capacity Development

Active civil society engagement

Possible WPS Institutional Entry Points @ the ASEAN: Philippine Advocacies

AICHR

Summits

AIPR

• National and Regional Consultation Workshops on Strengthening AICHR’s Mandate to address VAWG

• AICHR Workshop on the Development of Legal Instruments on Human Rights

• Symposium on Women and Girls in Armed Conflict

• 25th ASEAN Summit

• ASEAN-Dialogue Partners (Japan, Australia, UN)

Other Possibilities: Individually/Collectively

WPS

CEDAW and other commitment

National Initiatives

Existing Bodies in ASEAN