Welcome to the November update. This edition looks more closely at conflict sensitivity work in Kenya and the strong synergies with accountability in humanitarian response. Please continue to send me documents and news or upload them directly to the wiki. Quick links to the wiki are along the side below. If you would like to join a working group or find out more, please get in touch. Thanks, Paul-André.
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Help for users of the platform, including links to training videos and useful documents / CARE Kenya has continued to mainstream conflict sensitivity in its programming, building on the work and resources developed as part of the multi-agency conflict sensitivity consortium that ended this year. The focus has particularly been on its humanitarian response centred around its work in Dadaab. Led by Miriam Warui, the team have used the overlap between accountability processes and conflict sensitivity monitoring to train staff and partners in the camp, as well as in field offices. This approach highlights the importance of gathering feedback, and responding to complaints as a means of diffusing tensions before they escalate out of control. Full Do No Harm analysis, was also done on a sports for social change project involving 21 project staff as participants. Through this process Miriam has created some new resources, which are available on our conflict sensitivity page on the wiki. These include a policy for handling complaints and a poster to makes community or staff complaints easier to make. A new online complaints system – the Bell is being piloted in Dadaab, which could later be rolled out in the country. Accountability seems like a very strong entry point for conversations about conflict sensitivity in Emergency response. If you are interested in joining a phone call with Miriam, and accountability staff proposed for December to discuss this further please let me know.
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Conflict Sensitivity: CARE UK will be in CARE USA (Atlanta) to train the Sexual and Reproductive Health team in Do No Harm December 4-6. This follows a launch of the CSC How To Guide in Washington DC on December 3.DME/Theories of Change: CARE UK will be training Foreign and Commonwealth Office staff and partners in the theories of change methodology for design, monitoring and evaluating peacebuilding in January. For more information on the training and the modules please contact me.
Advocacy: ‘New Deal’ advocacy continues. CARE in South Sudan are most engaged as part of a civil society network feeding into the development of peace and statebuilding goals with the government and donors. For more information contact Howard () and Claudia from CARE South Sudan ()
Gender: Barbara Kuehhas will be presenting work on Women Peace and Security at the CI Gender Network meeting in Prague November 27-30. An email was sent around the CCP asking for any relevant publications.
Conflict Advocacy News
Input to CARE position on Conflict Related Sexual Violence
CCP members are invited to feed into a draft CI advocacy position paper on Conflict Related Sexual Violence. Any case studies or informal sharing of relevant examples linked to issues in the paper would also be welcome. The target for this paper is the G8 and governments in conflict-affected countries. The reason for developing this paper is that the UK Government chairs the G8 next year, and has identified CRSV as a top priority for the process: http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/global-issues/preventing-sexual-violence-initiative/ The draft paper is attached.
CARE UK already sent in two letters to the UK Government on this initiative. Based on discussions so far, there seems to be a recognition that the G8 should support a more holistic GBV prevention agenda (not just prosecutions), emphasis on survivor safety, and that support for services for survivors is important. As the G8 brings together the world’s largest donor nations, this is an advocacy opportunity both for CARE members, COs and CI secretariat to influence what the world’s largest donors do, or don’t do, on tackling violence against women in conflict globally and in priority countries. It is an opportunity to push them to increase their funding for GBV survivors, and make both aid and wider political engagement more effective.
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We are subscribed to the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development.
The username is: ConflictCCP; Password: CCP2012 / · From the latest edition of the journal of peacebuilding and development, one article compared World Vision’s Making Sense of Turbulent Contexts (MSTC) macro conflict analysis, as a typical development agency designed conflict assessment framework (CAF) with another approach favoured by academics and peacebuilding theorists. The author argues that the MSTC fails to do enough to understand inter-relational components of conflict, but is better than many CAFs because of its participatory approach. CARE has trialled the MSTC in Nepal and Kenya. The article Conflict Analysis versus Conflict Assessment in Practice is available on the wiki, and on the JPD website (left).
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