Women, Peace and Security

We use a participatory approach to dismantling barriers and building opportunities for women’s meaningful participation in peacemaking, as well as broader social, political and economic reform.

UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (Women Peace, and Security) was a landmark resolution that not only recognised the disproportionate impact of conflict on women, but clearly laid out women’s essential yet often side-lined role in peace processes, countering insecurity and extremism, and sustainably building effective and accountable institutions. Twenty three years later, while considerable progress has been made, it is more relevant than ever.

Siren Associates supports states and organisations working on diverse Women, Peace and Security initiatives in pursuit of this vision. Siren develops gender responsive programs that improve security outcomes for women, girls, men and boys. We use a gender and social inclusion lens to support our partners in identifying how different people experience barriers to security and justice, and to actively address them.

Gender mainstreaming in Lebanon’s security instituitions

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Gender mainstreaming in Lebanon’s security institutions

Mapping, analysing and enhancing institutional capabilities of the General Directorate of General Security and the Internal Security Forces to mainstream gender considerations in their operational and organisational activities.

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Women, Peace and Security at Siren

As practitioners, we strengthen the ability of our partners to tackle systemic challenges, mainstream gender considerations across their organisations, and build cross-sectoral partnerships for transformational change. We take an intersectional and nuanced approach that both respects and invites curiosity around accepted cultural or institutional norms relating to gender, social identities, and masculinity.

We also offer the following discrete GESI services to donors, development actors, implementing partners, and public and private sector organisations:

Field research for gender-responsive project design
Gender-sensitive monitoring and evaluation of activity
Organisational gender audits and assessments
Gender-sensitive policy, system and process development and embedding
Gender-sensitive training curricula development and institutionalisation
Bespoke gender and social inclusion awareness training and workshops
Gender responsive digital tool development
Capacity building and support for CSOs working on WPS

Read in depth about our women, peace and security approach

Our WPS approach relies on localisation, wide participation, and alliance building. Do drop us a line if you’re interested in collaboration.

Women, peace and security