Afghanistan
Women, Peace and Security (WPS)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Afghanistan’s National Action Plan on UNSCR 1325 Women, Peace and Security 2015-2022
Jun 2015 – The Afghanistan’s National Action Plan (NAP) on UNSCR 1325 women, peace and security is developed to address the challenges women faced in the aftermath of war and conflict in Afghanistan. The best tool for realizing the objectives of the above‐mentioned resolutions is Afghanistan’s National Action Plan, which aims to increase women’s participation in peace processes and the security sector as well as address issues around protection and relief and
recovery services for women. Thus, the NAP, is important because in any post conflict society the development of the country depends on men and women. Men and women must possess equal access to opportunities and resources to achieve this goal. To this end and in order to implement UNSCR 1325, the Government of Afghanistan has developed this National Action Plan to achieve the following:

- Participation of women in the decision making and executive levels of the Civil Service, Security and Peace and Reintegration;
- Women’s active participation in national and provincial elections;
- Women’s access to effective, active and accountable justice system;
- Health and psycho-social support for survivors of sexual and domestic violence throughout Afghanistan;
- Protection of women from all types of violence and discrimination;
- Provision of financial resources for activities related to women in emergency;
- Implementation of IDPs policy provisions related to UNSCR 1325;
- Put an end to impunity for violence against women (VAW) and related crimes;
- Engage boys and men in fighting Violence Against Women;
- Support and provide capacity building for civil society (particularly women’s on UNSCR 1325 and women, peace, and security;
- Increase economic security for vulnerable women through increased employment opportunities;
- Increase access to education and higher education for girls and women, particularly for the internally displaced persons and returnees.
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Monash Gender, Peace and Security Centre
The Castan Centre: Women and International Peace and Security in Afghanistan
24 June 2021 – This is the first panel discussion in a two-part series, the second to take place in August 2021, focusing on more of the legal technicalities of conflict and the extent of which international law provides protection for women and civilians more broadly in Afghanistan.
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International Alert
The local level implementation of Afghanistan’s National Action Plan on UNSCR 1325 – Women, peace and security
WORKING PAPER | NOVEMBER 2018
Ben Francis
Introduction
On the front cover of Afghanistan’s National Action Plan (NAP) on the United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 13251 there appears an image of dozens of doves flying or standing in and above an urban square or park of some description. Some buildings and fences are almost visible in the background and a bucket, possibly once full of feed, sits in the bottom right corner. Presumably this image is meant to convey the themes of peace that are inherent to the ideas the plan is based upon.
Unfortunately, just like the truth of the group of doves in a public space, the plan is at risk of being, in part, largely symbolic; all flap and feathers with little substantive change and inevitably leading towards an unpleasant mess to be cleared for the sake of promoting an image that in no way reflects reality.
This paper seeks to explore the history, aims and delivery record of the NAP in order to place in context a model for broadening its implementation. Now is a crucial time to examine the efficacy and impact of the NAP 1325, as we are approaching the mid-way point of the plan’s implementation, which was designed to run from 2015 to 2022. The first four years, which expire at the end of 2018, were always envisaged in the formulation of the plan as the first phase, allowing an opportune moment for reflection. However, the purpose of this paper is not to provide a thorough or nuanced analysis of the NAP itself – a good amount of literature exists already to that end, including some referenced throughout this paper. Instead, the paper frames the plan and then proposes another ground-up lens through which to view this implementation and asks how various stakeholders might conceptualise this national plan in order to include more of the nation’s citizens.