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May 2012 Welcome to the May Update. Don’t worry you didn’t miss April. Instead I’ve changed things slightly so that the updates are both retrospective and looking ahead to upcoming events/news. They will continue to be monthly, and should come out in the early/middle of each month. Please continue to send me news, documents or questions as well as uploading them directly to the wiki. Quick links to the wiki are along the side below. If you would like to join a working group or find out more, please get in touch with the lead person or myself. Thanks, Paul-André.

Quick links Featured Resource: Integrating Conflict Sensitivity into Humanitarian Response Training Download Report In April, Oliver Chevreau (CIUK) shared a draft of a conflict sensitivity in emergencies Community Home training, Integrating Conflict Sensitivity into Humanitarian Response which CIUK and The main page of other members of the conflict sensitivity consortium had piloted in February. The the wiki, where training takes forward the key learnings of a paper, Applying conflict sensitivity in you can access all emergency response – current practice and ways forward, developed by the content, including consortium and published by ODI’s Humanitarian Practice Network. the latest news and resources The report called for a number of key recommendations which would enable conflict Working Group sensitivity to be integrated simply across the humanitarian programme cycle. The Pages problem the training addresses is that emergencies often happen in fragile and highly Overviews complex environments and If this complexity is not understood, then there is a real working group risk of emergency response efforts further worsening underlying conflict dynamics. actions plans and space for The course is designed to be delivered as part of agency capacity-building programmes collaboration. prior to an emergency hitting. This could be delivered either to headquarter staff or to Documents/ humanitarian teams at a regional or country level. Resources (Not Public) The full facilitator’s guide, training resources and the feedback report from the first Tools, documents, training are now available. The tool continues to be tested and improved, and new training materials versions will be released on the wiki as they develop. All the documents are now on the and other wiki. resources for Working Group News (Wiki Page) peacebuilding or development Conflict Sensitivity: practitioners in Interest is high in ECARMU to continue conversations on how to mainstream conflict sensitivity fragile states. in the region. Conversations on how to move on the issue in MEERMU are also scheduled, and Alio is presenting the ideas on Conflict Sensitivity in the west African region to the program Discussions (Not quality forum there. Thanks to Tamba, Anthony, Yemisi, Alio and Oliver for pushing this. A Public) conversation on pulling together a business case on conflict sensitivity is also now a future Space for action. questions and In April, Oliver (CIUK) shared the piloted conflict sensitivity in Emergencies training tool in a responses on a webinar as noted above. Four CARE staff were able to join the online discussion. wide range of DME/Theories of Change: See below in Conflict News issues, led by CCP members. Peacebuilding Programming Framework/Toolkit: Thanks to all who are helping Inge and CARE NL with the development of the tool kit with the first sections starting to be shared. Following a Wiki Help modified version of the Utstein palette each section looks at a tool, its theory of change, its Help for users of strengths and weaknesses and an example of the tool in use. For more information or to get the platform, involved please contact Inge [email protected] including links to training videos and useful CCP and other Conflict News documents  Guide to using Theories of Change in Peacebuilding DME, goes to the publishers in late May. Hopefully Heidi Ober will be able to present the tool in the first week of June to the CCP before she leaves CIUK. A separate email will be sent with details as this happens.  DNH in DRC: Continuing the push to mainstream conflict sensitivity in CARE – CIUK supported a Do No Harm training with senior management in the DRC, and with staff from one project in the Maniema region. A report on the training, including examples of dividers and connectors is available here.  Social Cohesion and Peacebuilding: As part of the trip to the DRC CIUK captured different definitions of social cohesion, and documented two case studies. These are available on the CCP blog here: Conflict Advocacy News Apart from the CCP advocacy group a number of advocacy initiatives on conflict issues have been taken forward by CARE COs, members and CI secretariat since the last update. Key initiatives have included the following: The CI Women, Peace & Security advocacy working-group had a workshop in India, pegged to the CI global advocacy workshop. The workshop achieved some great breakthroughs in building a shared understanding across COs, members and CI secretariat on the need for, and benefits from, working together to link-up grassroots, national and international levels in advocacy. Key plans identified include:  CI WPS group to work with wider CARE emergencies and gender colleagues to enable more strategic and timely advocacy on gender/GBV in conflict/humanitarian contexts.  Building on past work on Afghanistan and partnerships with the Afghan Women’s Network to advocate on aid policy towards the Tokyo donor conference in July.  Advocacy and partnerships with wider civil society to promote adoption of the UN SCR 1325 indicators on women’s meaningful participation in peace/security/governance.  Advocacy and partnerships with regional civil society in Great Lakes to promote implementation of the ICGLR Declaration on Sexual Violence.  Advocacy to address recent trends in UN General Assembly to challenge the existing international human rights and protection policy framework, including gains achieved at Beijing Women’s Conference in 1995 (e.g. this year’s controversy in UN CSW). The full report is available on the WPS wiki page, which is now under construction on the CCP Wiki Document Sharing (please sign-in to the wiki for the links to work)  A project evaluation and best practices report from 2007 – Nepal’s Ujyalo project (Save the Children, CARE and others). The report argues “UJYALO is a pilot project of a model for combining development, human rights, and conflict resolution into one intervention… the model, tested against theories in development and conflict resolution is solid and should be transferred (with adaptations based on context) to other regions in and outside of Nepal.” Thanks to Santosh and Inge for sharing. The report is here.  A Conflict Sensitivity Case Study from a WASH project in Cote d’Ivoire has been written up from the CCP exchange in February. Thanks to Taki, Alio, TraMa and Balla for their work on this. Available on the DNH page under Case Studies:  We are subscribed to the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development. The username is: ConflictCCP; Password: care2011

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