The youth agenda is not a box-ticking strategy. It is a development, gender, human rights, peace and security issue that will require the implementation of intentional national strategies and structures in order to be effective.
Increasing women’s access and participation in peace mediation and negotiation in the country.
SADC took various steps to encourage and assist member states in developing NAPs. Whilst recognising the significant strides made in the region, more needs to be done to institutionalise the WPS agenda within the region.
Conflict and violence need to be understood in localised contexts and realities; this allows for an understanding of conflict that is unique to a country’s history and socio-political reality. Eswatini does not exhibit the signs of what the WPS agenda considers conflict.
A blog post written by Caitlin Hamilton, Nyibeny Naam, and Laura J. Shepherd for the London School of Economic’s WPS Centre discusses the implementation of WPS-related National Action Plans. Their full research