Post-conflict programme planners must therefore abandon rudimentary targeting practices based on abductees as a high-profile category.
Post-conflict programme planners and policy makers must abandon adhoc policies and rudimentary targeting practices based on abductees as a high-profile category.
Water for thousands Niéméné is one of five villages in Côte d'Ivoire's Dabakala department to benefit from a $4.5 million EU-funded post-conflict programme, which is facilitated by UNICEF through partner NGOs, civil servants like Mr. Loukou and local administration.
In this way, we support the government's national development priorities, and thus avoid any duplicated or conflicting programmes.
In addition, given the increased number of armed conflicts, programmes to reduce the risk of injuries from landmines have increased.
Based on a final finding from our study, one of those specific needs appears to be for post-conflict programmes offering support to victims of sexual violence to be inclusive of males and cognizant of their needs.
At the present time, however, our evidence strongly indicates that in northern Uganda, post-conflict programmes offering support to victims of sexual violence must recognize that males are also victims and thus must include them in programming that is sensitive to their needs and experiences.
"You cannot predict what the outcome will be," said Issaka Souare, a senior researcher for the Africa conflict prevention programme at South Africa's Institute of Security Studies.
Dimpho Motsamai, a researcher in the African conflict prevention programme at the Institute for Security Studies in South Africa, described Ecowas's swift action as "momentous".
Estimates from the Uppsala Conflict Data Programme (UCDP) begin at 0.3 in 1989, spike to 14.5 during the Rwanda genocide in 1994, and fall to 0.1 in 2008.
That is why the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), together with No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ), the international organisation I founded, has been working for the past four years to implement a conflict mapping programme in Afghanistan.
