THE WPS AGENDA
The Women, Peace and Security Resolutions
To date, the United Nations Security Council has adopted ten resolutions on “Women, Peace and Security.” Together they make up the WPS Agenda. UNSCR 1325, is the historic first resolution that confirmed the global commitment to women’s full involvement in peace and security. More than a resolution, it serves as a political framework that confirms the importance of gender perspective in negotiating peace, peacekeeping, and response to conflict.
Australia’s Second National Action Plan on Women Peace and Security
The Plan and related documents
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Implementation Plan: Australia’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2021- 2031
Australian National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2021-2031
Building on the work of the First National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (2012-18), Australia’s second NAP 2021-2031 on WPS seeks to deliver on four outcomes:
- supporting women’s meaningful participation and needs in peace processes
- reducing sexual and gender-based violence
- supporting resilience, crisis, and security, law and justice efforts to meet the needs and rights of all women and girls
- demonstrating leadership and accountability for WPS
Department of Home Affairs: Women, Peace and Security
Implementation Plan 2021–23
Australian Defence Force: Defence Gender, Peace and Security Mandate
Australian Federal Police: International Command Gender Strategy (2018 -2024)
Civil Society Reflections
Analyses of Australia’s Second National Action Plan (NAP) on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) 2021-2031
Monash GPS researchers provided thematic analyses of Australia’s second National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (2021-2031).
Themes covered in the report include: feminist credentials in the new NAP Australia, monitoring and evaluation, women’s participation in peace processes, sexual and gender-based violence in fragile and conflicted-affected settings, countering and preventing violent extremism, inclusive economies, climate change, humanitarian action, stabilisation and disaster management, health emergencies, young women, and children.
Australia’s second WPS action plan: was it worth the wait?
Lisa Sharland
Advancing the Women, Peace and Security agenda in Australia
Kit Catterson and Laura J Shepherd
The Pacific pivot and Australia’s second national action plan on women, peace and security
Susan Harris Rimmer
Australia’s First National Action Plan on Women Peace and Security
The Australian Government is committed to supporting the global Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda to ensure empowering outcomes for women and girls in conflict and post-conflict settings, and considered a global leader in this space.
The Plan and related documents
Australian National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2012–2018
The First Australian National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2012–2018 was a whole of government policy, coordinated by the Office for Women, to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325) and related resolutions under the WPS agenda. The Plan was extended till 2020 to allow for the development of the second national action Plan.
Government Progress Reports
2018 Progress report on the First Australian National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security
2016 Progress Report on the First Australian National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2012–2018
2014 Progress Report on the First Australian National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2012–2018
Evaluation Reports
Independent Final Review of the National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2012-2018
Independent Interim Review of the National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2012–2018
Civil Society Reports
See Women, Peace and Security Dialogues https://wpscoalition.org/wps-dialogues/