Women and DDRRR
The Women and DDRRR programme is focused on ensuring that women benefit, as well as actively participate in disarmament, demobilization, reparation, rehabilitation and reintegration processes. Recent experience has shown that even when women join the fighting forces as combatants, they most often do not benefit from disarmament programmes for a number of reasons including due to the popular perception that it is only men who "carry/use guns", or because they do not want to be identified and stereotyped, or simply due to coercion from the men to hand over their arms to them. Furthermore, women in grassroots communities tend to have vital information about the existence of arms in their localities and can play active roles in ensuring that (ex) combatants hand over their arms e.g. as was the case in Liberia where women escorted ex-combatants to the disarmament sites to ensure that they hand in their weapons as well as to demonstrate to the ex-combatants the communities' willingness to reintegrate them. The programme is thus intended to:
- Facilitate the achievement of successful and sustainable disarmament programmes.
- Ensure that female combatants benefit from disarmament, reparation and rehabilitation programmes.
- Assist female ex-combatants safely re-integrate into local communities.
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