Women participation in S. Sudan peace process is key, JMEC tells visiting Swedish delegation
The Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC) has on Friday held a meeting with a team from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden.
The team is in South Sudan as part of its study tour to several countries to understand how gender issues are integrated into the United Nation mission’s implementation of its mandate and those of its partners.
JMEC Chief of Staff, Ambassador Berhanu Kebede and his team gave an overview of Commission’s integration of gender perspectives in its oversight mandate, emphasizing the centrality of women’s participation and inclusion in the implementation of the Agreement and their direct involvement in the ongoing HLRF processes.
The Swedish team
Among the team was Ms. Karolina Vrethem, the Deputy Director at the Department of Conflict and Humanitarian Affairs at the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Gustaf Solomonsson from the African Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs specializing in the Horn of Africa, Ms. Lotta Segerstrom from the Department for UN Policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Hanna Carlsson, First Secretary, at the Swedish Embassy in Juba.
In addition to South Sudan, the team is also visiting Afghanistan, Iraq, Mali and Liberia in the coming days.
The brief further says the visits are geared towards meeting representatives from the UN, government and civil society in each of those countries to “learn from their experiences, successes, challenges and recommendations in order to improve concrete implementation of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda.
