Regional Desks
Sustaining Women’s Organizations
Documentation, Analysis, Dissemination
Regional and Intercontinental Consultations
(1997 – 2005)

WPP has been directly responsible for capacity-building with IFOR branches in the global South.
For example, after receiving a request from the FOR in Zimbabwe, the WPP secured funding for a January 2001 “Peace Clubs and Gender Training”, which brought together 12 youth leaders, male and female, from IFOR branches in Zambia, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

Participants submitted their own action plans and funding proposals for the establishment of gender-sensitive peace clubs in their countries. WPP critiqued the funding proposals and introduced the branches to possible funders. As follow-up to the January 2001 training, the WPP further aided the IFOR group the Youth Forum for Peace and Justice (YFPJ-Zambia) to successfully secure funding from Brot für die Welt for YFPJ’s Peace and Education Program.

WPP’s work has made a substantial difference within IFOR itself: some IFOR branches (in Zimbabwe, Uganda, Zambia, India and the Philippines) have established their own Women Peacemakers Programs or gender desks to tackle issues of gender violence, educating women for increased participation in peacebuilding, and supporting men in becoming stakeholders in gender justice.
Branches have also begun to incorporate gender training into their own nonviolence trainings and annual national meetings, as in Germany and the USA.