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Provides an overview of the strategy, highlights priorities within the five strategic areas of intervention and specifies roles. and responsibilities for implementation.

Analysis of Cross Border dynamics and localised conflicts in Mano River Region. Includes discussion on implications for DDR approaches and initiatives. Challenges identified include the tendency for DDR programmes to have national rather than regional focus - despite conflict dynamics being regional in nature - and the need for more attention to youth employment issues.

Review of an agricultural training program for high-risk youth in Liberia - report seeks to specifically identify the impact of the programme in terms of levels of aggression and likelihood of participation in illegal activities.

Provides step-by-step instructions on how to practically translate gender considerations into DDR programming - contains a useful toolkit and resources including checklists, mechanisms for mapping personnel gender competencies, and approaches for ensuring M&E frameworks are gender-sensitive.

Explores a variety of psychosocial issues impacting ex-combatants and communities and outlines recommendations for improving psychosocial support in future DDR programming. Case studies presented from Rwanda and Somaliland

Review of support provided in Rwanda to disabled ex-combatants where a specific and comprehensive programme of benefits were pit in place to assist their reintegration - including health, social and subsistence support. Useful description (Section 5.1.2.) of approach put in place to screen and categorize levels of disability and link these to benefits and support.

This note draws on a variety of studies and experiences to highlight the need for DDR practitioners to understand the significant role that informal and shadow trade often plays in societies in transition from conflict and the importance of considering this during programme design.

Comprehensive exploration of issues related to gender dimensions of violence in post conflict settings and their importance for DDR programmes. Emphasises the importance of understanding male and female changing gender identities and roles in society - often impacted by conflict.

This study carried out amongst LRA ex-combatants analyzes the drivers of reintegration of XCs in Northern Uganda - including those directly and indirectly linked to the DDR process. It highlights the importance of kinship networks as one of the main drivers of reintegration and challenges faced by female ex-combatants

Drawing on CAR, DRC and South Sudan as Case Studies the paper explores issues related to economic reintegration. Comparative analysis drawn identifies the fact that in many post conflict settings informal economic activity provides the bulk of opportunities for ex-combatants and the general population.

This report comprehensively explores the changing nature of violence in the 21st century. The report draws on comparative analysis to explore how countries might successfully manage to transition away from repetitive violence. There is much that will be of interest to DDR Practitioners.