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NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL ACTION PLAN for the Implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolutions, including 1325, on Women, Peace & Security 2015–2019
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Front cover: Photo taken during a visit by a contingent of sailors from HMNZS WELLINGTON to Igam Barracks Primary School in Lae, Papua New Guinea. Credit: New Zealand Defence Force Top: New Zealand Police Officer in Bougainville Credit: New Zealand Police
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New Zealand’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security explains how New Zealand will implement the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions on women, peace and security for the period - .
The UNSC Resolution on women, New Zealand’s National Action Plan, peace and security was a ground- led by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs breaking resolution adopted in and Trade, New Zealand Police and the , followed in later years by six New Zealand Defence Force, addresses complementary UNSC resolutions. the role of women within New Zealand, Together the resolutions articulate including those working in government three priority issues: representation and agencies directly associated with peace- meaningful participation of women at all making and conflict prevention, those levels of peace and security governance; in civil society organisations and society promotion of all pertinent rights for more broadly, as well as women outside women and girls; and the protection of New Zealand in our immediate Pacific rights for women and girls in fragile, region, and globally. conflict and post-conflict situations.
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Family violence stand in the Solomon Islands. Credit: New Zealand Police
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BACKGROUND
Women’s and girls’ empowerment and Sexual violence and violence against gender equality are critical to efforts women continues to be used as a to maintain international peace and widespread and systemic tool of war. security. In contemporary conflicts, Women’s experiences of violence and the vast majority of casualties are discrimination in conflict societies civilians, and most of these are tend to reflect the attitudes and women and children. Women and girls social norms of the communities in disproportionately suffer the effects of which they live during times of peace. displacement from stable communities Violence and inequalities that women and societies. They are increasingly face in crises do not exist in a vacuum. targeted directly by combatants and Therefore educating whole communities women may also be combatants and achieving core attitudinal and themselves. societal norm change is an important preventative measure. Family violence is At the same time, women have an also a key concern that New Zealand is important role to play as leaders and working to address. decision-makers in the prevention and durable resolution of conflict. This role Progress is being made in addressing is recognised, but still not consistently many of these areas, but women and respected and embedded within girls continue to face specific and international peace-building practice. devastating forms of sexual and gender- Addressing these issues is crucial to based violence. Even after conflict has sustainable peace, economic recovery, ended the impacts of sexual and gender- social cohesion and political legitimacy, based violence against women and girls and the impact on operational persist. Insecurity, impunity and social effectiveness in fragile, conflict and stigmatisation can then prevent women post-conflict situations. from accessing education, becoming financially independent and participating in governance and peace-building.
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Within the United Nations, the numbers of women appointed to senior roles is slowly increasing in direct response Women and girls to the Resolution agenda. At disproportionately the most recent review (end of ) su er the e ects of women headed per cent of United Nations peacekeeping, political and displacement from peacebuilding missions. The majority stable communities of field missions now include gender and societies. advisers, but at around per cent, there is some way to go to meet the target of all such missions incorporating Moreover, women continue to be poorly dedicated gender expertise. The represented in formal peace processes. United Nations Department of Political In recent peace negotiations women Affairs’ eight-member Standby Team of have represented fewer than eight per Mediation Experts currently includes cent of participants and fewer than three women. In the Secretary- three per cent of signatories. No woman General appointed the United Nations has ever been appointed chief or lead first woman lead mediator as Special mediator for the host-country side in Envoy to the African Great Lakes region. United Nations sponsored peace talks. Progress on women’s representation Women’s participation is critical as in international fora is welcomed, but it presents an important and diverse further advancements in this area wisdom. Women bring a perspective require the combined efforts of the to peace talks beyond that of the often United Nations, individual States and small and unrepresentative group of civil society. active combatants, and they represent New Zealand is proud to be able to a broader base of society that would join more than other countries otherwise be excluded from durable in responding to Resolution by peace-building plans. An inclusive peace committing to a National Action Plan on process is more likely to lead to lasting Women Peace and Security. peace.
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THE RESOLUTIONS UNSC Resolutions Along with these resolutions, the broader United Nations women, peace In recognition of the specific protection and security agenda is grounded in needs of women in situations of conflict, a number of key treaties and other Resolution was adopted in . decisions. One example of this is Resolution affirmed the importance the Committee on the Elimination of of the full participation of women in Discrimination Against Women’s conflict resolution, at decision-making General Recommendation No. on levels of durable peace processes Women in Conflict Prevention, Conflict and the build-up of gender response and Post-conflict Situations (CEDAW/C/ capability in peacekeeping missions. GC/). Since six further resolutions have been adopted by the UNSC that Actions and measurements for are relevant to the women, peace and Women Peace and Security security agenda: SCR ( ); The United Nations has identified SCR ( ); SCR ( ); four complementary and overlapping SCR ( ); SCR ( ) thematic areas for conceptualising and SCR ( ). Together these actions and measuring progress in the resolutions reaffirm Resolution , women, peace and security agenda. drawing particular attention to the prevalence of sexual violence against PREVENTION women and girls, calling for more Incorporating women’s perspectives into rigorous investigation and prosecution, early warning systems, public education noting the continued and persistent and training guidelines and prosecution underrepresentation of women at all of violators of women’s rights, including stages of peace processes, including sexual and gender-based violence, their very low participation in formal are all measures that are essential to mediation roles and limited participation conflict prevention efforts. in many facets of post-conflict public life. These fundamental human rights Key UNSC Resolution Operative issues are crucial to sustainable peace, Paragraphs: OP of SCR (); economic recovery, social cohesion and OP of SCR (); OP of SCR political legitimacy. () and OP of SCR ()
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PARTICIPATION PEACEBUILDING, RELIEF AND RECOVERY Recognising the positive impact on conflict prevention and lasting This includes equality of access to resolution, this relates to increasing resources, justice and basic services, the quantity and seniority of women’s and investment in economic and social representation in national and United security for women and girls. Nations led peace processes, and Key UNSC Resolution Operative empowering local women at all levels to Paragraphs: OP, OP of (); be involved at all decision-making levels OP of () and OP of SCR in formal and community led conflict () and post-conflict peace processes. Key UNSC Resolution Operative Paragraphs: OP of SCR ()
PROTECTION Strengthening and amplifying efforts to protect the human rights of women and girls, and ensure their physical and economic wellbeing, with particular regard to sexual and gender-based violence. In the context of the Pacific, this includes institutional strengthening of local police and judiciary in order to protect the rights of victims and reducing sexual and gender-based violence. Key UNSC Resolution Operative Paragraphs: OP of SCR (); OP of SCR (); OP of SCR () and Op of SCR ().
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NEW ZEALAND POLICY FRAMEWORK
New Zealand has a long history of international leadership in promoting the rights of women to participate equally in all aspects of society. In 1893 New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world to grant universal suffrage to women. Today New Zealand has a comprehensive set of legislation to protect human rights and eliminate discrimination against women, and consistently ranks at the top of global indices measuring equality of opportunity for women. New Zealand’s approach to implementing the UNSC resolutions on women, peace and security will focus on four key areas:
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Strategy 1 Strategy 2 PREVENTION PARTICIPATION Incorporation of women’s perspectives Creating and maintaining political into early warning systems, community pressure in international fora to ensure awareness and prosecution of violators women’s involvement in decision making of women’s rights. within fragile, conflict and post-conflict situations.
Strategy 3 Strategy 4 PROTECTION PEACEBUILDING, Increasing the number of New Zealand RELIEF AND women deployed in police and military roles in UNSC mandated peacekeeping RECOVERY missions, international assistance Highlighting measures that engage missions and other peace keeping women and address their needs operations; improving the capability in relief and recovery; redress for of peacekeeping and international injustice; promoting New Zealand assistance missions to respond to women as mediators and negotiators in women’s needs; ensuring gender international forums; and ensuring post- analysis informs New Zealand’s peace conflict processes of national dialogue, support responses and development transitional justice, reconciliation and assistance to countries affected by post-conflict governance reforms are conflict; and promoting efforts to gender responsive. combat sexual violence, intimate partner violence and violence against women and girls in conflict affected countries, with special attention where New Zealand supports a development programme or post.
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Multilateral diplomacy States to increase efforts to end sexual violence and violence against women in New Zealand is a founding member conflict States. It is also an important of the United Nations, and is a party opportunity to promote improved to all the core international treaties training for peacekeepers and experts that underpin the women, peace working on conflict prevention. and security agenda and considers relevant international guidelines and New Zealand is also recognised for standards in this context. This includes its leadership in championing the the international frameworks around broader spectrum of rights for women international humanitarian law, and girls through United Nations fora, including the necessary provisions including the Commission of the Status that single out women and girls for of Women, the regular meetings of the special protection. New Zealand is Human Rights Council and our support active in international fora that oversee to the International Committee of the the continued development and Red Cross and Red Crescent. These implementation of these instruments. interventions particularly address sexual and gender-based violence, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and intimate partner violence, women’s Trade is the primary focal point for access to reproductive and sexual engagement with the United Nations on health and access to justice. conflict and post-conflict policy settings, notably with the UNSC and other regional security organisations. Within Enabling international these fora New Zealand continues to deployments of New Zealand push for improved efforts to encourage women women’s participation in conflict Both New Zealand Police and the prevention measures and for a gender New Zealand Defence Force have active sensitive response to peace and security programmes in place to increase the issues. The New Zealand Mission recruitment, retention and senior- to the United Nations in New York level promotion of women, which actively participates in UNSC meetings, will ultimately lead to more women including open debates with an explicit being available for peacekeeping focus on women, peace and security missions. New Zealand women have and the implementation of Resolution been deployed to international conflict . These debates are a useful settings for some years. opportunity for all States to influence the United Nations and other member
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NEW ZEALAND POLICE The Women’s Advisory Network Women officers were first Governance Group was established in commissioned into New Zealand Police , with the purpose of developing in . As at June women made and supporting women in New Zealand up percent of police officers and Police to be successful. Its objectives percent of all employees, with two sworn are to provide advice to the Police women at the rank of Superintendent. Commissioner and Police Executive on As at , New Zealand Police how best to achieve the vision and goals women have served on International of the Commissioner in respect of the Deployments since (many chose to recruitment, retention and progression deploy more than once), largely in the of women in Police. Pacific and also in Afghanistan. The New Zealand Police strategy New Zealand Police has formal - continues to invest heavily networks throughout the organisation in the development of female staff to focusing on support and development ensure that the Police workforce is of members, including development, representative of the diversity within the mentoring and leadership programmes New Zealand population as a whole. An tailored especially for women. These effective and fit-for-purpose workforce feature flexible employment options and is critical to the success of New Zealand standards and guidelines to deal with Police. harassment and discrimination. All Organisational Development advisors have a core responsibility to integrate gender inclusion issues across the organisation. There are development programmes As at , tailored specifically for New Zealand New Zealand Police women and national and district Police women level mentoring programmes for women are well embedded. The majority have served on of women constabulary employees International ranked Sergeant or above have now Deployments participated in a leadership development programme, which compares favourably since . with the participation rates across male employees.
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NEW ZEALAND DEFENCE FORCE Currently the NZDF Defence Recruiting Women have been able to participate Organisation (DRO) is developing an in all areas, including combat roles, of attraction and recruitment strategy to the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) increase the representation of women since . Women make up . per taking up careers with the NZDF. cent of the total uniformed forces. The Internal research has been conducted number of uniformed women deploying to identify the perceived barriers and significantly increased from a historic motivators for young women when average of per cent of the total they are considering a career in the deployments to per cent in . From NZDF. This research is informing the those women deploying there appears development of a strategy and a number to be an increasing number in more of other initiatives. Further research senior roles, with recent examples is currently being conducted by the including a Lieutenant Colonel to the Ministry of Defence Evaluation Division Chief United Nations Observer role in to identify the reasons that female Lebanon, a Wing Commander to Senior applicants are less likely than men to National Officer in Dubai and a Colonel attest into the Services. to Afghanistan. The Ministry of Defence published A Women’s Development Steering the findings of an independent review Group was launched in , aimed into the opportunities for women in at increasing the representation, the NZDF in . The review found distribution and participation of that substantial progress has been women in the NZDF and ensuring full made on gender equity in the NZDF opportunity and access to the various over the last years and made a existing diversity and inclusion policies. series of recommendations for further These range from enlistment and improvement. These recommendations, promotion, to childcare, duties during along with recommendations from the pregnancy, investigation of bullying NZDF Women’s Development Steering and harassment. The NZDF Wellbeing Group have formed a programme of programme includes promotion of an action entitled More Military Women anti-harassment telephone hotline Across the New Zealand Defence Force. service and, in partnership with several agencies led by the Ministry of Social Development, a targeted ‘It’s Not Okay’ family violence campaign to raise awareness of family violence within the NZDF. NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL ACTION PLAN
One of the NZ Army personnel attached to the Australian Army, during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2015 (held in Rockhampton, Queensland) Credit: New Zealand Police
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OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS New Zealand is committed to ensuring New Zealand women have, with the that its development activities promote New Zealand Government’s support, gender equality and address the needs been appointed to some of the most of women and girls. All senior levels in the United Nations, New Zealand funded development which are of relevance to the women, activities include integrating peace and security agenda. For gender equality into their design, example, in a New Zealander implementation and evaluation. This became the most senior woman at the involves consulting affected women time to be appointed to a United Nations during the design of the activity, conflict role, when she served as the addressing barriers to women’s Deputy Special Representative and later participation, reducing the risk of Chief of Mission for the United Nations adverse outcomes for women, actively operation in Cyprus. In a former recognising the relative skills and New Zealand Prime Minister took up strengths of women and men, and the role of Administrator of the United identifying opportunities for women’s Nations Development Programme, the empowerment in the delivery of the first woman to hold this top New York- activity. New Zealand endeavours based position in the United Nations. to gather sex-disaggregated data in its monitoring and evaluation of all INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT development activities. Through the New Zealand Aid The New Zealand Aid Programme Programme, the Ministry of Foreign operates in close cooperation with Affairs and Trade aims to support a number of civil society providers. sustainable development in developing A number of New Zealand funded countries, in order to reduce poverty development activities in conflict- and contribute to a more secure, affected countries focus specifically equitable and prosperous world. We on gender equality and gender-based have programmes in a number of violence, particularly in the Pacific. conflict affected countries that feature Some of these activities are described in this National Action Plan, including briefly below. Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste.
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SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS New Zealand’s Pacific Pacific Island countries are marked engagement by vulnerability and, as noted by the Pacific Islands Forum Regional Security Alongside our commitment to Committee in , sexual violence and multilateral frameworks and joint violence against women are the most responses, New Zealand maintains significant human security issues facing special focus on the Pacific region, the Pacific. New Zealand sees itself as including pertinent border control and well positioned to help Pacific Island security issues. Approximately half countries strengthen key institutions of New Zealand’s foreign aid goes to including judiciary and police services the Pacific region and New Zealand is to appropriately respond to violence a core member of the Pacific Islands against women and girls. New Zealand Forum, the political association of regards this assistance as an important the Pacific Island nations. In , the contribution to increasing the resilience Forum Secretariat launched the Pacific of countries in the face of conflict and Regional Action Plan on Women, Peace their ability to prevent both armed and Security. This commits conflict and sexual and gender-based New Zealand, along with Pacific violence. partners, to a range of actions to support the implementation of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea Resolution . These include funding programmes for the reduction of Following the -£ armed conflict sexual violence against women and for in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, the increased representation of women New Zealand Aid Programme supported in the civilian and security forces in the New Zealand Police to establish the region. New Zealand also takes a network of community part-time a lead in projects supporting the auxiliary police officers to live and wider educational and economic serve in the more remote villages and empowerment of women and girls communities of Bougainville. High levels across the Pacific, including in fragile of violence against women and girls and conflict affected States such as were a particular concern. In response Solomon Islands and Bougainville, to this, community programmes were Papua New Guinea. developed to forge more leadership roles in shaping a future of long-term peace, political and social unity and sustainable development.
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New Zealand Police continue to build initiatives to combat gender inequality, policing capabilities in Bougainville, sexual and gender-based violence and including through mentoring and family violence. coaching programmes. New Zealand In the Solomon Islands Parliament Police provide training and mentoring passed the Family Protection Bill support to regular and community and work is underway to enhance auxiliary police across Bougainville, to the interagency response to family build skills and lift the responsiveness violence, increase investigations of and effectiveness of police services. family violence, and implement the The focus is on installing a community government’s Gender Action Plan. policing approach, including a local law Passage of this Bill will be a necessary enforcement programme that now has stimulus for interagency response to over per cent local women officers, family violence. The Royal Solomon with at least one woman member within Islands Police Force is providing a walking distance (up to four hours in positive example to other agencies in the local context) for all women in the this area. At per cent the Solomon communities served by this programme. Islands Police now has one of the Solomon Islands highest rates of female participation across Solomon Islands government New Zealand has a significant bilateral agencies. Women officers now occupy relationship with the Solomon Islands, a number of senior Police positions, including an ongoing role within including the first woman Assistant the multilateral, multi-sector and Commissioner. interagency Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands Timor-Leste (RAMSI). RAMSI was established in New Zealand has played an important at the request of the Solomon role in building the capacity of the Islands Government to restore order National Police of Timor-Leste (PNTL) and rebuild services after five years and securing peace in Timor-Leste. of conflict. Currently £ New Zealand After the United Nations Integrated Police personnel with specialist Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) expertise are deployed within the ended in , the New Zealand Aid Royal Solomon Islands Police Force, Programme began a four-year bilateral as part of RAMSI. Together, the Police community policing programme jurisdictions are working on developing which supports the Timor-Leste and implementing local and durable Police to build safer and more secure
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communities. Six New Zealand Police had an emphasis on training and up mentors work alongside national skilling of female teachers. As part of and district commanders and their this programme, £ female teachers deputies, assisting in a range of specific completed in-service qualifications areas including: family violence; youth between and , resulting in policing; and custodial conditions better career pathways for teachers, related to station management. These and improved enrolment of and tailored approaches have a direct participation by girls in schooling. impact on the protection needs of At an institution-building level, women, youth and girls. New Zealand also provided funding to the Afghanistan Independent Human New Zealand also provides funding to Rights Commission. the Asia Foundation, which supports communities and Police to work New Zealand Police had a seven year together to identify and address root engagement in the Bamyan province, causes of conflict. This includes a from to . During this time focus on family violence, as it was the number of female police in the identified by communities as one of province rose from one to . In addition, their top sources of insecurity and New Zealand Police supported the concern. To further strengthen access establishment of a family response unit of women to resources, New Zealand at the Provincial Police Headquarters, funds a financial literacy training which is led by a woman Afghan officer programme for women, enabling them and helps to give women an avenue to to access micro-finance to set up small report family violence. New Zealand businesses, and the development of also helped to establish the first Afghan critical thinking and entrepreneurial National Police Women’s Committee skills. at the Bamyan Provincial Police Headquarters, which advocates for and Afghanistan supports female police, and supported New Zealand’s development assistance projects that led to the development and to Afghanistan recognises the crucial implementation of a non-discrimination role of economic development in and harassment policy for all police peacebuilding. Consequently, employees, a recruitment strategy New Zealand mainstreams gender targeting women, individual career issues in its sustainable economic development plans for all women development activities in this context. that included mentoring and training, New Zealand prioritised and funded instigation of a code of conduct and a teacher training programme, which development of a flexible working policy. NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL ACTION PLAN
The New Zealand Defence Force Pacific Prevention of Domestic deployed approximately personnel Violence Programme to Bamyan from to , and The PICP’s regional Pacific Prevention continues to deploy Army personnel in of Domestic Violence Programme works mentoring roles at the Afghan National in countries, including post-conflict Army Officer Academy. countries such as the Solomon Islands, The Pacific Islands Chiefs of to develop a common and consistent Police understanding and approach to family violence issues in the region. The Secretariat of the Pacific Islands New Zealand Police staff deploy as Chiefs of Police (PICP) represents mentors for up to six weeks annually member States within the Pacific region and work to build relationships and has been based in Wellington, and partnerships with government New Zealand, since its inception in £. departments and NGOs, to influence The PICP is governed by an executive policies, leadership, governance and leader team, which includes NZ Police. wider social environments. A key strategic goal included in the Strategic Plan - is to maximise Partnership for Pacific Policing the contribution that women bring Programme to Pacific policing to best serve their communities. The Partnership for Pacific Policing Programme (the Partnership) was Women’s Advisory Network developed as an umbrella programme to strengthen the capacities and The New Zealand Aid Programme capabilities of policing services in contributes toward funding the work Cook Islands, Kiribati, Niue, Samoa, programme of the PICP Women’s Tokelau, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. One of the Advisory Network, established in key initiatives of the Partnership is the , which supports the professional delivery of an ethics and human rights development and leadership of Pacific training package to ensure the practical police women through mentoring, application of relevant international advice and skills development and legal obligations. an exchange programme. The key objectives of the network include supporting efforts for increased women’s participation in policing through recruitment, retention, training and mentoring support.
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NZDF’s Regional Engagements OTHER KEY ACTIVITIES All current NZDF deployed operations New Zealand is active in contributing are open to women. NZDF presently to the development and advancement has women deployed throughout the of military women throughout the world in peace support and capacity region. For example, as part of these building missions in support of a international initiatives, a female rules-based international order. These Army officer attended the Special women occupy a range of roles, ranks Female Officers in United Nations and specialisations, including a female Peacekeeping Course in New Delhi in officer who currently commands the March . Since May NZDF has New Zealand contingent deployed with had a female Wing Commander serving the United Nations Truce Supervision as the Chief of Staff in a major United Organisation. In addition, there are States Navy-led Humanitarian Aid and three women serving on Royal Navy Disaster Relief exercise. In June, two and Royal Australian Navy warships female officers from Papua New Guinea conducting coalition maritime security and Fiji Defence Forces attended the operations in the Arabian Gulf region. New Zealand Defence Force Women’s Women are also involved in NZDF’s Forum. NZDF also sent a training team non-operational overseas postings. to Papua New Guinea in June and July In August , there were women which was led by a female New Zealand in representative roles, training and Army officer to provide mentoring exchanges with Australia, Singapore, to women in the Papua New Guinea the United Kingdom and United States. Defence Force. Further, in November Among these are a number of women in two NZDF women will travel to senior representative roles, including a Ghana where they will teach a module Colonel with the United Nations. called “Operationalizing Gender in Peace and Security Operations: A New Zealand Perspective”, as part of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Centre (KAIPTC) Master of Arts course in Gender, Peace and Security.
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New Zealand Police Officer in the Solomon Islands Credit: New Zealand Police
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is National Action Plan ts within a broader framework of complementary strategies to which New Zealand is committed.
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The New Zealand National Action Plan New Zealand agencies will establish a for implementation of Security Council gender-balanced inter-agency Women, Resolutions on Women, Peace and Peace and Security Advisory Group, Security has been developed in line to professionalise New Zealand’s with the four fundamental objectives responses to women, peace and identified by the United Nations security issues and to guide and monitor Secretary General of: () Prevention; implementation and reporting under this ( ) Participation; () Protection; and () National Action Plan. Annual reports will Peacebuilding, Relief and Recovery. be submitted to responsible Ministers Various priorities and indicators for (Foreign Affairs, Police, Defence, measuring progress within fragile, Women), led by the United Nations, conflict and post-conflict situations have Human Rights and Commonwealth also been taken into account. Division (UNHC) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). This National Action Plan fits within a broader framework of complementary strategies to which New Zealand is committed. These include the Pacific Regional Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security - ; agency- specific strategies on women, peace and security, such as those currently proposed within the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) and New Zealand Police; and the New Zealand Aid Programme’s cross-cutting focus on gender in its activities.
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IMPACT ACTIONS INDICATORS RESPONSIBLE LEAD
I. Prevention . New Zealand will advocate Number and type of MFAT (of conflict at international fora for statements made. and of women, peace and security violations issues to be included Any resulting of rights of in political and security incorporation women and discussions, in particular into international girls) for peacekeeping operations statements and and conflict prevention actions to be noted. responses, including up to the level of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). This will include consideration of supporting domestic research into women, peace and security issues, as well as considering the role of men and boys in the overall women, peace and security agenda.
. NZDF and NZ Police will Report on number, NZDF and NZ Police review their doctrine, policy, title and description directives and deployment of relevant policy/ planning frameworks relevant directives reviewed, to UNSC-mandated missions, which contain reference international assistance to women, peace and missions and other peace security. keeping operations, to ensure effective adoption of Report on whether women, peace and security NZDF domestic reviews commitments. have considered women, peace and i. For NZDF, this review will security considerations. take into consideration other domestic reviews, for example Report on whether the Defence White Paper, and gender training include a consideration of included in all training. whether gender training should be made mandatory in all training, rather than just pre- deployment.
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. New Zealand government Number of training NZDF, NZ Police agencies engaged in the modules identified, and MFAT prevention of conflict will developed and formalise the inclusion of incorporated. women, peace and security into NZDF and NZ Police pre- Number of pre- deployment and other training, deployment and other through: training courses delivered which include i. incorporating guidelines, women, peace and materials and training modules security, and numbers on the protection, rights and of personnel trained. needs of women and girls in their pre-deployment Number of individuals preparation, with reference deployed at the to international humanitarian leadership level who law, international human rights are briefed or trained law and other international on the modules guidance. and Commander’s Handbook Guide. ii. developing a common module with reference to New Zealand’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security to be used as part of pre-deployment training of NZ Police, diplomatic, civilian and NZDF personnel. iii. developing a Commander’s Handbook Guide on women, peace and security, with supporting advice and training, to assist in deployment setting.
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. NZDF and NZ Police Extent to which this NZDF and NZ Police will include information on information has been violations of women’s and included in situation girls’ human rights that reports and post occur during participation in activity reporting. UNSC-mandated peacekeeping missions, international assistance missions and other peace keeping operations in their periodic reporting, according to mandate.
. NZDF and NZ Police will be Number of reported NZDF and NZ Police responsive to and investigate cases of sexual any violations of the rights of exploitation and abuse women and girls that occur allegedly perpetrated during participation in UNSC- by deployed NZDF and mandated peacekeeping NZ Police individuals missions, international that are referred, assistance missions and other investigated and acted peace keeping operations, in upon. Disaggregated line with relevant international by type of actions taken standards. (including disciplinary actions such as repatriation).
. Where a credible allegation Where any credible NZDF, NZ Police and of the commission of a crime alleged crimes raised MFAT during a peace keeping by the United Nations, operation is raised by the number of cases where United Nations against a New New Zealand updates Zealander, New Zealand will the United Nations on inform the United Nations of the the investigation and progress of the investigation prosecution process. and prosecution process.
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II. Participation . New Zealand will advocate at Number and type of MFAT international fora to increase statements made and the quantity and seniority of recorded. women’s representation in national and United Nations-led peace processes.
. New Zealand will advocate Number and type of MFAT at international fora for the statements made and empowerment of local women recorded. to be involved at all decision- making levels in formal and informal conflict and post- conflict peace processes.
. To ensure nominations for New Zealand MFAT international candidatures and Government positions are merit-based, New deployment database Zealand will actively identify established. and nominate appropriately qualified New Zealand women Increase in number of as candidates for: women nominated and appointed. i. UN Special Representative and Envoy roles; ii. Mediators and gender advisors on international rosters.
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. New Zealand will strengthen Number and quality of NZDF and NZ Police recruitment, promotion, initiatives to increase deployment and other presence of NZDF human resource support and NZ Police women programmes within New deployed, including Zealand government agencies senior women. responsible for participation in UNSC-mandated peacekeeping Greater representation missions, international of women at senior assistance missions and other levels (within NZDF, NZ peace keeping operations, Police and deployed). including through: Gender disaggregated i. Training New Zealand data publicly available personnel, on appointment of NZDF and NZ Police and selection panels for deployed by gender, international deployments, on rank and sworn/non- women, peace and security sworn or uniform/ issues. non-uniform status per annum. ii. Researching, identifying and addressing roadblocks to Number of selection women deploying overseas, and appointment including organisational panel members culture, family, ethnic cultures. for international deployments trained on women, peace and security. A documented selection and appointment process is developed for international deployments.
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. Where New Zealand has Number and type of MFAT in-country diplomatic missions interventions made, in conflict or post-conflict and subsequent actions countries, New Zealand will taken. support women’s effective participation and decision- Examples of women making through: formally involved in conflict resolution and i. Engaging and advocating peace building. with relevant international institutions and diplomatic missions in-country for the participation of local women in conflict resolution and peacebuilding processes; ii. Engaging with in-country authorities or partner government for greater participation of local women in decision making and appointment to positions of authority.
iii. Looking for opportunities to Examples of MFAT strengthen the representation New Zealand Aid of women in positions of Programme activities authority and in decision that strengthen making processes through women’s representation its development activities in positions of authority (in countries where an aid and decision making programme exists). processes.
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. New Zealand will clearly Funding letters MFAT communicate and monitor an advise all multilateral expectation to multilateral partners, who work partners working in fragile, in conflict affected conflict and post-conflict areas, of New Zealand’s situations, that they have National Action Plan systems and processes in place on Women, Peace to ensure operations enable and Security and and support the participation accordingly of New of women in decision making Zealand’s expectations processes and positions when of our partners. working in fragile, conflict or post-conflict situations.
£. New Zealand agencies will Minutes from MFAT MFAT, NZ Police facilitate discussions with hosted meetings with and NZDF New Zealand-based partners, development partners including NGOs, working in active in conflict and fragile, conflict or post-conflict post conflict areas. situations aimed at sharing lessons and best practice to increase women’s participation in decision making processes.
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III. Protection . New Zealand will advocate at Number and type of MFAT, NZ Police international fora to strengthen statements made and and NZDF and amplify efforts to protect recorded. the human rights of women and girls, and ensure their physical and economic well-being, particularly their protection from sexual and gender-based violence in fragile, conflict and post conflict situations, their protection as civilians under international law and recognition of the impact on women and girls when family members go missing as a result of hostilities.
. New Zealand will ensure that New Zealand position MFAT and NZ Police women, peace and security clearly stated in issues are on the agenda formal statements and of Pacific regional security meeting minutes, for activities including counter- example on the Agenda terrorism and transnational of Pacific Islands Chiefs crime, arms trade, munitions of Police; Agenda of disposal activities. Pacific Transnational Crime Coordination Centre, Pacific Islands Forum and other inter-agency meetings in which Police have memorandums of understanding (MOUs), such as with Australian, United Kingdom and United States law enforcement agencies.
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. Where New Zealand Aid Examples of MFAT Programme is active in fragile, New Zealand Aid conflict and post-conflict Programme activities countries, activities support that protect the human human rights of women and rights of women in girls, and ensure their physical conflict and post and economic well-being, conflict countries. particularly their protection from sexual and gender-based violence.
. Facilitate discussions with Minutes from MFAT MFAT New Zealand based partners hosted meetings with who are funded for work in development partners fragile, conflict or post-conflict active in conflict and situations aimed at sharing post conflict areas. lessons learned and best practice to protect women and girls from sexual and gender- based violence.
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IV. . New Zealand will advocate at Number and type of MFAT, NZDF and Peacebuilding, international fora for equality statements made and NZ Police Relief and of access to resources, recorded. Recovery justice at the domestic and international level, and basic services for women and girls in peacebuilding, relief and recovery phases in conflicted affected countries. This may include access to gender specific medical, psychological and other assistance required by women and girls affected in armed conflict.
. New Zealand will incorporate Business processes are MFAT, NZDF and women, peace and security amended to incorporate NZ Police considerations into relevant UNSCR and business processes for the women, peace and Official Development and security considerations. Humanitarian Assistance programme, and the design and monitoring of activities in conflict-affected countries.
. NZDF and NZ Police will take Documented evidence NZDF and NZ Police women, peace and security of women, peace and considerations into account in security discussions. their responses in support of conflict prevention, resolution and peacebuilding.
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MONITORING AND EVALUATION Compilation and Consultation of To inform these annual progress this National Action Plan reports, the working group will invite participants in the public submissions This National Action Plan was prepared process to form a parallel consultative by a New Zealand Government caucus with civil society, including interdepartmental working group led NGOs, intergovernmental organisations by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and such as ICRC and others, who will Trade, in company with the New Zealand nominate a representative to feed Defence Force and New Zealand a consolidated view directly into Police. The Ministry for Women and the annual reporting process. In Crown Law were also consulted. Civil addition, working group members will society groups were consulted through consult with interested civil society existing targeted consultation channels organisations through each of their of interested groups, and primarily departments, using consultation through a public and open workshop mechanisms already in place. held in Wellington in May . The draft National Action Plan was made publicly The working group will also meet on available, and comments received an ad hoc basis as required by events. considered by the working group during The combined report from the working July and August . The group met group will be made available for public formally on several occasions between comment. The overall process is to be May and September . led by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Ongoing Review Review and Revision The gender-balanced interagency governmental working group, endorsed The implementation period for this by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, National Action Plan is five years, from Police, Defence and Women’s Affairs, to . The National Action Plan will be responsible for reporting on the will be reviewed following each annual implementation of this National Action reporting period, and following the Plan. The working group will meet on scheduled Security Council review in an annual basis, to consider interim and any other United Nations led progress reports on the status of review initiatives on Resolution on implementation of actions falling under Women, Peace and Security. the respective remits of participating ministries.
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New Zealand Police Officers in Bamyan, Afghanistan. Credit: New Zealand Police
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