The first NAP came to be after the 2010 Regional Forum, which was spearheaded by 11 Ministers of Women, Family and/or Family Affairs, with the participation of the African Union, UN System agencies and a diversity of civil society actors. This Forum had the goal to recommend the States to engage in the creation of their own action plans.  This resulted in the 2011-2015 NAP, elaborated by Senegal in the year following the Forum. 

In May 2015, Senegal carried out an evaluation with the support of UNOWAS, on the implementation of UNSCR 1325 in the country. The recommendations and new directions emphasized the formulation of a new action plan to promote the concrete materialization and consolidation of the Senegalese civil society’s potential for intervention in the field of peace and security. The second-generation NAP aims to establish a diagnosis of the first action plan and to formulate new strategies and actions to be implemented under the new one. 

The 2020-2024 NAP reflects the Senegalese government’s commitment to having a basic tool that harmonizes visions and coordinates the implementation of all actions that converge towards rights and needs of women and girls in peace, security and national reconciliation processes, with a particular emphasis on prevention.  

Implementation

The NAP2-R1325 will be implemented according to the Modality “National Execution”. The Ministry in charge of the implementation is the Ministry of Women, Family, Gender and Child Protection, through its Directorate of Equity and Gender Equality. 

The decision-making, orientation and monitoring bodies are made up of (i) the National Monitoring Committee (CNP in French), chaired by the Minister of Women, Family, Gender and Child Protection; (ii) the Restricted Committee (CR in French), chaired by the same Ministry; (iii) the Women, Peace and Security Working Group (GT/FPS) coordinated jointly by DEEG and the Steering Committee. The Secretariat of these bodies is provided by DEEG’s PAN-R1325 Specialized Unit (US/PAN-R1325).

US-NAP-R1325, located within the Gender Equity and Equality Department, is a team made up of a specialist in Gender, Peace and Security, a Monitoring and Evaluation Expert, an Administrative and Financial (RAF), a communications officer and a database manager. This team constitutes the national coordination staff, working independently from the civil servants members of the Steering Committee, which supervises and validates the activities of US/ NAP-R1325.

At local level, activities are carried out through the NAP-R1325 Regional Monitoring Committees (CRS/ NAP-R1325) chaired by regional governors, with secretarial support provided by the structure established by the Governor. The meeting is attended by all decentralized technical services, leaderships of relevant national projects and programs, and all CSOs, particularly women's CSOs active in the field of peace and security, and in promoting the rights and empowerment of women and girls. Following-up to NAP-R1325 will be on the agenda of the Comité Development Committee (CRD) by regional governors.

This system enables the development of a structuring partnership with ongoing collaboration with extension services, NGOs/CSOs, the private sector, projects, as well as the ministerial departments and programmes their intervention programs, with a view to ensuring synergy and greater efficiency and efficiency of interventions.

The implementation period for the Senegalese NAP is 2020-2024.

The second NAP R1325 aims to "Implement and ensure coordination and follow-up of UNSC Resolution 1325 and its follow-up at national level". Its overall objective is to "Ensure better participation of women and girls of women and girls in the prevention and management of peace and security, as well as a better their specific needs in terms of protection and post-crisis recovery". It has five main components, each with a specific goal:

1. Prevention: establish an integrated national mechanism for early warning and prevention of crises, conflicts and all threats to peace, particularly violent extremism, and to combat the insecurity of women and girls.
2. Protection: guarantee conditions of safety for women and girls at all times and in situations of crisis or conflict, against all forms of violence, particularly sexual or gender-based violence, by improving the services of the Justice, Police and Army to this end.
3. Participation and promotion: promote the representation and empowerment of women in the prevention, negotiation and peacekeeping mechanisms and processes of the and in diplomatic missions.
4. Post-crisis recovery/relief: supporting women and girls affected by crisis situations to help them reintegrate into the workforce, build their resilience and economic empowerment, and rebuilding or improving their living environment.
5. Coordination of the NAP2-R1325 implementation: Ensure the functionality of the coordination and monitoring-evaluation system for NAP2-R1325 et Suivantes, and ensure optimum human, financial and material resources required for its successful implementation.

For Senegal, there are a number of priority issues/actions that were appointed as the focus of the prevention strategy. These include:

• The management of natural resources, due to the impact that they have in the stability of a country. According to the NAP2, plenty of the conflicts in the African continent are due to the control of natural resources, which results in violence and instability.
• The easing of political tensions, with the implementation of R1325 providing a framework for harmonizing and expressing the will of the national women’s civil movement to play its full part in the restructuring of the political field in its various forms and mechanisms. This includes providing the circumstances for women to play their fundamental role as agents of change in new perspectives for the maintenance of peace.

Each strategic objective has a number of listed indicators. For example, “the easing of political tensions” includes providing the circumstances for women to play their fundamental role as agents of change in new perspectives for the maintenance of peace.

is to be carried out by the NAP steering team, or any other structure or set up for this purpose, under the supervision of the steering committee and with the ongoing collaboration of the Ministère de la Femme, de la Famille du Genre et de la protection des Enfants. The Steering Committee is responsible for organizing upstream M&E activities with a view to assessing the achievements in line with the standards and procedures defined by the MFFGPE and its partners. This M&E plan should thus contribute to defining methodological and technical procedures to assess and measure the successful implementation of this action plan.

In order to report on the results of the actions carried out, the PAN-R1325 Steering Committee is responsible for validation of reports prepared by the Coordination Unit:

1. Start-up report: Responsible - MFFGPE/DEEG, NAP2 Steering Committee; Frequency: one-time
2. Annual activities reports: Responsible - US/DEEG; Frequency: trimestral
3. Periodic reports: Responsible - MFFGPE/DEEG, NAP2 Steering Committee; Frequency: annual
4. Mid-term evaluation: MFFGPE/DEEG, Independent Cabinet of the Steering Committee; Frequency: one-time (1st semester of the 3rd year)
5. Final evaluation: Responsible - MFFGPE, US/DEEG Independent Cabinet of the Steering Committee; Frequency: last trimester of the NAP execution
6. NAP2 publications
7. Action plan final report: MFFGPE/DEEG, NAP2 Steering Committee; Frequency: last semester of the NAP2 execution. 

The Action Plan includes a detailed budget with a breakdown of the cost of the implementation. The overall cost of implementing component 1 (setting up an integrated early warning and conflict prevention, also focusing on the fight against the insecurity of women and girls) NAP is US$ 952 406,45. Meanwhile, the cost of the implementation of component 2 (promoting the representation and empowerment of women in prevention, negotiation and peacekeeping processes) is US$ 869 147,68. The cost of the implementation of component 3 (ensuring conditions for women and girls at all times and in situations of crisis against all forms of sexual or gender-based violence, by improving justice, police and military services to this end) is US$ 1 581 604,44. The cost of the implementation of component 4 (supporting women and girls who are victims of crisis and conflict situations for their professional reintegration and economic autonomy, and the rebuilding or improving of their living environment) is US$ 1 093 430,00. The cost of the implementation of component 5 (structure the coordination, monitoring and evaluation system for PAN2-R1325 and following, ensuring optimal mobilization of human, financial and material resources required for implementation and better by stakeholders and targets) is US$ 1 331 274,51. The overall budget is US$ 5 827 863,08.

Senegal’s NAP does not discuss disarmament issues.

Actors

NAP Development

Parliament, and a host of local collectivities, universities and three Civil Society research centers are specifically identified as key actors. However, it is unclear who exactly was involved in drafting given the lack of information on the drafting process.      

This NAP has been developed through a process that involved the Ministry of Gender and Relations with African and Foreign Women's Associations, Ministry of Family, Women's Organisations and Youth, Ministry of Defense with support of the Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Health and Prevention, Ministry of Education, and Parliament.                   

NAP Implementation

Sixteen different international and regional organisations are involved in implementation of the NAP, with their specific roles identified.

To facilitate the identification of priority areas of immediate action for improving the lives of women and children in Senegal and ensuring increased investment for strengthened implementation of UNSCR 1325, a Steering Committee, coordinated by the Ministry of Gender and Relations with African and Foreign Women's Associations, was formed.

NAP Monitoring and Evaluation

Civil society groups are members of the Steering Committee.

The Steering Committee, coordinated by the Ministry of Gender and Relations with African and Foreign Women's Associations, submits reports to the government every three months.

Timeframe

The implementation period for the Sudanese National Plan of Action is unclear.

Objectives

The National Action Plan is based on the mandate of UNSCR 1325 and the activities to be implemented fall under the three pillars of the resolution, as follows:

• Prevention (ensuring physical, mental, economic stability of women and respect for their rights, preventing of the violence against women and girls);
• Participation (integrating women’s perspective and recognizing women's interests in decision-making processes related to prevention, management, resolution of conflicts);
• Relief and recovery (taking into consideration the specific needs of women in times of conflict and in the post-conflict period).

Actions/Activities

Each pillar has different actions assigned. For example, Pillar 1 (ensuring physical, mental, economic stability of women and respect for their rights, preventing of the violence against women and girls)  includes the following actions:

• Prevent all forms of violence against women, particularly sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV);
• Develop and implement operational systems to monitor violations of women's rights and girls and intervene, when necessary;
• Take into account the needs and problems of women and girls in the implementation of early warning systems and conflict prevention mechanisms.

Indicators

Each strategic goal has a number of listed indicators. For example, the first goal, “Review all laws (statutory and customary) that undermine or hinder women’s participation in decision-making and governance in their bid to actively engage in South Sudan’s recovery, development and democratic processes, ” includes several indicators:

1. Number of laws reviewed;
2. Number of sensitization campaigns held to consult with and inform traditional leaders and communities on negative cultural practices that hinder women’s leadership potential;
3. Number of women actively involved in governance and recovery processes.

Monitoring and Evaluation

The Steering Committee, coordinated by the Ministry of Gender and Relations with African and Foreign Women's Associations, submits reports to the government every three months.

Budget

Based on the National Action Plan, the NAP will be financed by the Ministry of Finance with  support of the United Nations Regional Office for West Africa (UNOWA), the UN Women, the ECOWAS Center for Gender Development (CCDG). Additional funding will also be received through development programmes provided by the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and UN Women. The total cost of the NAP is approximately $ 2,261,500.

Disarmament 

Under the “relief and recovery” pillar, the NAP includes an objective aimed at addressing the special needs of women, veterans and girls in the DDR Programmes.