Hosted by E.K.Bensah Jr, a Research & Communications Specialist, the show seeks to disrupt the African Rising narrative by demystifying;unpacking; and explaining ECOWAS;African Union; South-South Cooperation policies around Africa's integration.
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Friday, March 13, 2015
Monday, March 9, 2015
PODCAST>>Episode 34: Towards a more Equitable Gender Participation in Peace & Security with UNSCR1325
EPISODE #34
Research & Co-ordination: E.K.Bensah Jr
Executive Producer: E.K.Bensah Jr
"Dear friends,
We used the thirty-fourth edition of the Africa in Focus show to discuss the newly-formed communications Network on Women, Peace & Security and UNSCR 1325, which stresses the participation of women in peace & security.
We spoke to Head of Women, Peace & Security Institute, Margaret Alexander-Reheboth, who stressed that the role the Media can play is by daily, and regularly, telling positive stories about women.
On Catherine Appiah-Pinkrah's part, she spoke as a representative of the Ministry of Defence, which remains one of the implementers of the UNSCR1325. She equally-stressed the role of the media, and talked of how discussions on 1325 was an opportunity to also tell the world the stories of Ghana's revered Peace & Security Architecture -- as exemplified by structures such as the National Peace Council.
The Network is here to stay, and the advocacy is on...to ensure that those Communicators that make up the steering committee, including Radio XYZ, keep stories around 1325 alive!
Kindly find a link to download the podcast below:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/h9z2vl7vw9ohpbm/AFRICA%20IN%20FOCUS%20%2003-03-15.mp3?dl=0
Kind regards,
Emmanuel
Research & Co-ordination: E.K.Bensah Jr
Executive Producer: E.K.Bensah Jr
"Dear friends,
We used the thirty-fourth edition of the Africa in Focus show to discuss the newly-formed communications Network on Women, Peace & Security and UNSCR 1325, which stresses the participation of women in peace & security.
We spoke to Head of Women, Peace & Security Institute, Margaret Alexander-Reheboth, who stressed that the role the Media can play is by daily, and regularly, telling positive stories about women.
On Catherine Appiah-Pinkrah's part, she spoke as a representative of the Ministry of Defence, which remains one of the implementers of the UNSCR1325. She equally-stressed the role of the media, and talked of how discussions on 1325 was an opportunity to also tell the world the stories of Ghana's revered Peace & Security Architecture -- as exemplified by structures such as the National Peace Council.
The Network is here to stay, and the advocacy is on...to ensure that those Communicators that make up the steering committee, including Radio XYZ, keep stories around 1325 alive!
Kindly find a link to download the podcast below:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/h9z2vl7vw9ohpbm/AFRICA%20IN%20FOCUS%20%2003-03-15.mp3?dl=0
Kind regards,
Emmanuel
Monday, March 2, 2015
COMING UP!>>Ep.34: Towards a more Equitable Gender Participation in Peace & Security with UNSCR1325
34th Edition:
Towards a
more Equitable Gender Participation in Peace & Security with UNSCR1325
This year, the AU is paying particular attention to women by celebrating
their empowerment under the theme “Year of Women’s Empowerment and Development
towards Africa’s Agenda 2063”.
October 2015 will be exactly fifteen years since the landmark
resolution UNSCR1325 was adopted.
UNSCR 1325 is considered a “landmark resolution” because it was the first time in the history of the United Nations that member-states decided to link the maintenance of peace and security to the situation of women and girls.
UNSCR
1325 is based on three key pillars — which are participation in peace
processes, mainstreaming a gender perspective into all conflict prevention
activities and strategies, and the protection of women in war and peace
Truth be told, the adoption of the UNSCR 1325 and its follow
up resolutions 1888, 1890 and 1960 on women, peace and security calls on
governments, states and international organizations to promote the
participation of women in negotiations, governance and leadership positions in
security sector institutions.
We want to use the 34th edition of the Show to
kick-start conversations around 1325 in a month that is particularly important
for the celebration of women (it will not have escaped your attention that 8
March is International Women’s Day).
Located in the larger global context of 20 years of the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for Action -- a historic roadmap
signed by 189 governments 20 years ago that sets the agenda for realizing
women’s rights – one begins to understand why we need to start the ball rolling
on filling the deficits on gender as quickly as we can.
One critical and
obvious way for this show is through advocacy of 1325. Last week, I spoke to
the issue of a newly-established network in which Radio XYZ/Africa in Focus
show sits on the steering committee. It is important to have communicators at
the centre of this all-important discussion, as Mrs.Appiah-Pinkrah suggested
last week, to make the reach of one’s messaging wider. Enter AIF, and other
media to help do that.
It is for this
reason we are having a conversation today with the implementers (Ministry of
Defence/Ministry of Gender & Social Protection); facilitators
(WPSI/KAIPTC); and a rep of the National Peace Council.
This is our
first step in helping demystify 1325.
Join us if you can at 1pm on 3 March, 2015.
Guiding questions
- Why is a Communications network on
UNSCR1325 necessary?
- Have the National Peace Council been
able to bridge the gender-gap/divide in their composition?
- How will some of the implementers of
1325 (Ministries of Gender/Defence) help the media communicate the
importance of 1325?
- What, if any activities, are the
Network, and WPSI of KAIPTC doing to sensitise Ghanaians around 1325?
Guests in the studio:
Ø
Mrs.Catherine
Appiah-Pinkrah, Director, Ministry of Defence
Ø
Mz.Margaret
Alexander-Reheboth, Head of Women, Peace & Security Institute (WPSI),
KAIPTC
On the line:
·
Mz. Malonin Asibi ,
Programme Officer, Ministry of Gender, Social Protection @14h10
·
George Amoh, Director in charge of Conflict Resolution
and Management, National
Peace Council, Ghana @14h30
·
Kobby Blay,
#EbolaWatch, @13h30
Monday, February 23, 2015
Monday, January 12, 2015
PODCAST>>EPISODE #27: Understanding UNSCR1325 (peace & Security)
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Sunday, December 7, 2014
AFRICA IN FOCUS >> Coming up on 9 December, 2014: Understanding UNSCR 1325, & Calling for Media engagement on Women’s greater Participation in Peace and Security
Understanding UNSCR 1325, & Calling for Media engagement on Women’s greater Participation in Peace and Security
At 7 months, the Africa in Focus (AIF) show has already covered issues of peace and security twice – first was in May on peace and security challenges on the continent, including the fight to rid the sub-region of Boko Haram. Secondly was only a few weeks ago when we spoke to WANEP’s Aliou Diallo on the way forward on Burkina Faso.
Clearly, being in West Africa, peace and security issues remain second nature to our collective desire to foster a sustainable sub-region for us all. And this is not without reason: West Africa is well-recognised globally for establishing, through ECOWAS, important structures – such as the ECOWAS Conflict Prevention Framework of 2008; Mediation & Security Council, among others – that have helped contain the sub-region from any fear of implosion.
In the 25th year of ECOWAS’ first-ever peace & security intervention (through ECOMOG) into Liberia to save that country from destruction, it is timely that, as we peek into 2015, we are confronted by two important celebrations – 40 years of ECOWAS; and 15 years of the signing of UNSCR1325.
The Security Council adopted resolution (S/RES/1325) on women and peace and security on 31 October 2000. The resolution reaffirms the important role of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts, peace negotiations, peace-building, peacekeeping, humanitarian response and in post-conflict reconstruction and stresses the importance of their equal participation and full involvement in all efforts for the maintenance and promotion of peace and security. The resolution provides a number of important operational mandates, with implications for Member States and the entities of the United Nations system.
As we speak, no less than the AU Special Envoy for Peace and Security, Benita Diop, is in Abuja, Nigeria. She is accompanied by the Ambassador of Niger to AU, Diallo Amina Djibo, former President of the African Court of Human and Peoples Right, justice Sophia Kufor, Liberian peace activist, Leymah Gnowee, Harriette William and John Ikubaje.
The envoy, who had in the past addressed various meetings on AU’s effort to secure the girls, said the continental body would continue to engage officials and all concerned on the best measures to protect the girl-child through robust policies on education, employment opportunities and better welfare.
It will be recalled that the key point of reference for the newly-created special envoy post is UN security council resolution 1325, which affirms the special needs of women and girls in conflict situations and the unique role they can play in peacemaking and post-conflict reconstruction.
Comfort Ero, Africa programme director at International Crisis Group, an independent, non-profit organisation committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict, believes the appointment of an envoy demonstrates the AU is serious about establishing effective mechanisms to address the role of women in peace and security.
Such a landmark resolution needs elaboration, discussion, and reflection – not just by policy-makers, civil society and the like, but also…by the media.
It is against this background that we are dedicating this edition to discussing and reflecting over UNSCR1325. Even as we have a fair idea of what it signifies, it is a given that, the media is key in any kind of awareness-raising for which reason the WPSI of the KAIPTC organized a two-day Media Forum from 25-26 November. And for which reason AIF has set the pace by being the first programme on English-speaking private radio to concretely discuss UNSCR1325 in a way that has yet to be discussed.
Guiding Questions to be answered:
· What is, and the rationale, behind UNSCR 1325?
· Why is it important to monitor UNSCR 1325?
· What is the special role women bring to fostering peace and security for which reason UNSCR1325 remains critical in discourse of peace and security?
· Why has it remained uncelebrated for 14 years?
· What is comparative advantage West Africans have to bring pressure to bear on awareness-raising of UNSCR1325?
· Why is the media important on sensitization of UNSCR1325?
· What does UNSCR1325 tell us about the global development community’s efforts on gender, peace & security (UNWOMEN *july 2010 by UNGA* /AU Special Envoy/15 years in 2015)
Guests in the studio:
Ø Francis Ameyibor, Ghana News Agency(GNA)
Ø Ayo Ayoola-Amale, Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom(WILPF)
Ø Mercy Osei-Konadu, women and gender advocate
On the line:
· Kingsley Ofei-Nkansah, General Agricultural Workers Union(GAWU) @13h10 for our “Africa in the News” segment
· Kofi Akpabli, award-winning Tourism writer @13h25 for our “Africa in the News” segment
· representative from WACSI/WACSOF @13h40 for our “Africa in the News” segment
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