A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Search for Common Ground, has commenced the dissemination of Gombe State Plan on United Nation Security Resolution 1325 (UNSCR) on inclusion of women in peace process to the three senatorial district in the state.
State Coordinator of the organisation, Mr. Chorbe Joshua Gonlur, disclosed this while speaking at the residence of senior district head of Mallam Sidi of Kwami local government area in Gombe north senatorial district in the state yesterday.
He said that the programme was supported by the United Nation Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of the Women (UN-Women) in collaboration with Gombe state government.
Gonlur said that UN- Women was implementing European Union funded programme in partnership with the Nigeria government in promoting women engagement in peace and security building in Northern states, which Gombe is among
He said the story in Gombe was complete when the state Action Plan was produced and launched in December last year and is now being disseminated to the 11 local government areas in the state so that it will be domesticated.
“The Action Plan was produced based on the common knowledge that no community can survive in the midst of conflict, which often affect all, but with greater percentage of the burden on laid on women and girls, in terms of displacement and death of loved ones.
“It causes physical insecurity to the women and girls because they become vulnerable to higher tendencies of not only victims but agents and active participants of armed conflict”, Gonlur added.
