The Political Affairs, Peace and Safety Division (PAPS) of the African Union Fee, by means of its Gender Peace and Safety Programme (GPSP) and FemWise-Africa Secretariat, in partnership with Nett4Peace and GIZ, efficiently convened Member States in Benin for the Annual Coordination Assembly on the Ladies, Peace, and Safety (WPS) Agenda, marking 25 years since UN Safety Council Decision 1325 (UNSCR 1325). The high-level gathering introduced collectively AU Member States which have adopted Nationwide Motion Plans (NAPs) on UN Safety Council Decision 1325 (UNSCR 1325), offering a strategic platform to evaluate implementation progress, change greatest practices, and develop accelerated methods to deal with rising challenges together with local weather insecurity, digital threats, and protracted gender inequalities in peace processes.
Held at a important juncture – 25 years after UNSCR 1325’s adoption – the assembly aligned with the AU’s continental examine assessing WPS Agenda implementation in Africa. The examine evaluates progress, identifies limitations, and highlights native options whereas addressing rising challenges like political transitions, local weather change, and digital safety threats. Its findings will strengthen coverage coherence, enhance financing, and amplify ladies’s management to tell actionable suggestions for inclusive safety methods throughout the continent.
Delegates underscored the pressing must translate Ladies, Peace, and Safety (WPS) coverage commitments into tangible motion, notably in addressing evolving battle dynamics, terrorism, climate-related insecurity, gender-based violence, and the weaponization of digital applied sciences. Individuals reaffirmed the important position of governments in implementing WPS commitments, emphasizing the necessity for better coverage alignment, sustainable funding, and ladies’s significant participation in battle prevention and peacebuilding. These discussions instantly knowledgeable the AU’s ongoing continental examine, guaranteeing its suggestions handle implementation gaps whereas accelerating influence throughout the continent.
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In his opening remarks, Ambassador Akok Manyuat Madut, Head of the AU Mediation and Dialogue Division, talking on behalf of H.E. Bankole Adeoye, AU Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace, and Safety, acknowledged: “As we start this session, I problem us all to suppose boldly… Above all, allow us to uphold the precept that ‘Ladies Lead. Peace Follows’–not as a slogan, however as a blueprint for motion.”
Mrs. Agnes Badou, representing H.E. Prof. Mèdessè Véronique Tognifodé, Minister of Social Affairs and Microfinance of Benin, strengthened the host authorities’s dedication: “The WPS Agenda is a compass for ladies’s significant involvement in Africa’s improvement. It calls for our agency political will, stronger partnerships, and, critically, satisfactory sources. Peace can not wait.”
The assembly concluded with a robust reaffirmation of collective dedication to speed up WPS implementation throughout Africa, guaranteeing that ladies’s management and gender equality stay central to peacebuilding, battle prevention, and reconciliation efforts. Individuals underscored the significance of sustaining an annual platform for data change, sharing greatest practices, and joint strategizing whereas recognizing the distinctive contexts and specificities of various international locations and areas to drive extra impactful and results-oriented progress.
