Governance Peace and Security

Activities

Activities to be carried out over the next two years (2003-2004):

1. Promoting a rights-based approach:

• Develop a common framework at the national level for promoting and implementing a rights based approach, within UNCTs, including undertaking an inventory of best practices,

• Develop joint programmes to strengthen the oversight capacity of national and regional legislative bodies in order to reinforce national capacity for advocacy, implementation and monitoring of compliance of the respective countries’ international legal obligations,

• Undertake a review of laws and legislative frameworks (including national constitutions) at the national level in order to assess the extent to which they reflect implementation of and compliance with international standards, and

• Prepare an inventory of different partners, including their areas of expertise and needs, in order to provide them with the support necessary to strengthen their institutional capacity.

2. Develop comprehensive and integrated programmes for conflict prevention, management and post- conflict recovery / reconstruction with particular attention to the needs of refugees, returnees, internally displaced persons (IDPs) and ex combatants:

• Joint contingency planning to be undertaken by all Agencies as well as a rationalisation of early warning indicators,

• Joint assessment missions to be planned and implemented, and

• Joint planning to be undertaken for post conflict initiatives, including resource mobilisation.

3. Promoting good governance:

• Provide support to NEPAD in the development of indicators for the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) in the three areas of governance proposed,

• Promote joint capacity development initiatives to facilitate national peer review/self-assessment processes. Beneficiaries of these initiatives could include parliaments, the judiciary, civil society, the private sector, local governments and the media.

• Develop a common framework for encouraging participation and ownership of the NEPAD process at the national level by different stakeholders, with the full participation of women,

• Promote and support local governance and decentralization, and

• Initiate activities to enhance the capacity of the RECs and national
  institutions.