Hi All,

What I would suggest coming from my Women’s Rights Organization background is to :

1. use gender sensitive conflict analysis tools to understand how conflicts affects women and girls differently.

2. let your programming or interventions speak to the 4 pillars of WPS Agenda

3. Create a situation room for Early conflict warning system and to gather useful data

4. Inclusivity should be prioritized

Conflict sensitivity can be incorporated along the full project cycle. This includes the design phase with conflict analysis and inclusivity (as Uduak mentioned) as well as conflict-aware implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) processes that not only seek to avoid during harm in the way information is collected and shared (for example), but also maximizes peacebuilding opportunities by seeing MEL as *intervention* rather than an add-on process. Also similar to Uduak, optimizing monitoring to serve as an early warning systems is also helpful, despite most MEL money being reserved for evaluations. Another tool I have used is crafting personas to represent the groups of people touched by/involved in an intervention. This helps you think through what various actions might mean for that group as well as how they can most effectively be involved.

Changes in a fragile context are unexpected. In response and to regulary adapt program strategies (minimizing risks and maximizing opportunities for peace), we have put in place a simple and practical checklist to monitor the level of conflict sensitivity in our cross cutting programs in Sahel region. All the teams take part in this follow-up. This good practice allows us to be effective in monitoring conflict dynamics and be also proactive in programmatic adaptations without harming.

for my peacebuilding experience in great lakes region iwould suggest to:

– To develop the community based peacebuilding policy discusions in a hollistic approaches for a sustainable and lasting peace impact.

– Connecting MHPSS to conflict prevention initiatives and peacebuilding, this is to stike back the controverses about the relevance of forgiveness in peacebuilding and protracted social conflicts.

– gendered approaches to peacebuilding and pconflict prevention: for our specific context, specialy in eastern of DR Congo, women are made more vulnerables because of the pre existing inequality in the so-called peaceful society, andd then, ignoring gender power relations and inequalities in a society can leade to an oversight of some of fundemental causes of conflicts and degenerate trauma and violence .