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  • Multi-country Demobilization and Reintegration Program: End of Program Evaluatio
    September 16, 2024

    This comprehensive end of programme evaluation provides a detailed analysis of all components of the MDRP from design to p[reject implementation modalities. Chapter V (page 43) provides a synthesis of lessons learned and detailed summaries of individual projects are provided within the Annex.

  • Post Conflict Peace Building in Africa: Assessing DDR Process
    September 16, 2024

    Report of a workshop held at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre in 2006 that brought together participants to
    discuss, compare and assess DDR experiences and identify lessons learned.

  • Greater Inclusion of African Youth in Public Service and Governance
    August 26, 2020

    This report is the result of a partnership between the African Leadership Institute’s Project Pakati and the African Union Office of the Youth Envoy, funded by the Ford Foundation. ‘Pakati’ is a Bantu word in languages spoken by the Zulu, Ndebele and Shona peoples of Southern Africa.

  • 10-Year Implementation Plan Yps 2020-2029
    Continental Framework for Youth, Peace and Security
    August 21, 2020

    It is incontrovertible that the peace and security challenges experienced in Africa from the 1990s put continental and international attention on the key roles played by young men and women in episodes of armed conflict and insecurity.

  • 10-Year Implementation Plan Yps 2020-2029
    10-Year Implementation Plan For The Continental Framework On Youth, Peace And Se
    August 21, 2020
  • Developing integrated approaches to post-conflict security and recovery. A case
    September 16, 2024

    Report detailing attempts to conduct integrated approaches to disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) and post conflict security programming in Sudan.

  • Stockholm Initiative on Disarmament Demobilisation Reintegration
    September 16, 2024

    Final report of the Stockholm Initiative on Disarmament Demobilisation Reintegration - a programme initiated with the aim of proposing ways and means that can contribute to the creation of a predictable framework in which DDR processes could be planned and implemented.

  • Sustaining the Peace in Angola: An Overview of Current Demobilisation, Disarmame
    September 16, 2024

    Comprehensive overview and analysis of the DDR process in Angola post 2002. Useful analysis of challenges and opportunities in what was a process with a high degree of political ownership by the Government.

  • Socio-Economic Reintegration of Ex-Combatants: What Role for the European Union?
    September 16, 2024

    Policy brief prepared for the European Union outlining challenges and opportunities associated with reintegration. For more useful documents, Check the Website:
    http://www.international-alert.org/

  • A Hard Home coming Lessons Learned from the Reception Center Process in Northern
    September 16, 2024

    Report examining assumptions and evidence about the needs and experiences of children and adults returning from the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and transiting through Reception Centres established to provide initial support and counselling.

  • The importance of a gender perspective to successful disarmament, demobilization
    September 16, 2024

    Reviews recent DDR processes, drawing both from conversations with DDR field practitioners and planners working within various UN agencies, and from academic accounts of DDR to argue for increased attention to women role and voice in DDR planning and programming. Considers the role of UNSCR 1325 in taking this forward.

  • Peace as a Disappointment. The Reintegration of Female soldiers in post-conflict
    September 16, 2024

    Documentation on the particular challenges faced by female ex-combatants on the continent. Chapter Five highlights key issues and recommendations . Annex A presents a series of individual case examples drawn from Eritrea.

  • Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration in Sierra Leone
    September 16, 2024

    Comprehensive case study on DDR in Sierra Leone. Emphasized the need for improved consultation and community involvement, better provision for vulnerable groups and the more effective linkages and promotion of micro and small businesses.

  • Where are Girls? Girls in Fighting Forces in Northern Uganda, Sierra Leone and M
    September 16, 2024

    Presents findings from a research study entitled "Girls in Militaries, Paramilitaries, Militias, and Armed Opposition Groups" focused on Uganda, Sierra Leone and Mozambique

  • Reintegration Assistance for Excombatants: Good Practices and lessons for the M
    September 16, 2024

    Comprehensive and practical information on lessons learned from the design and implementation of reintegration programmes including models of support for reinsertion, vocational training and programme management. Case studies at Annex C on the Namibian experience of setting up 'development Brigades and institutional structures for DDR in Ethiopia.

  • Beyond Demobilization: Challenges and Opportunities for Security Sector Reform i
    September 16, 2024

    Case Study of CAR in 2005 emphasizing the complexities and interrelationship between DDR and SSR efforts.

  • Targeting Multi Country Demobilization and Reintegration Program (MDRP) Assistan
    September 16, 2024

    Position paper. Useful exploration of eligibility criteria and approaches for beneficiary targeting.

  • Transitional Justice and DDR. The Case of Rwanda
    September 16, 2024

    Part of a series that explores the ways in which DDR programs may contribute to, or hinder, the achievement of justice-related aims. Rwanda case study offers commentary on the role of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the role of the Gacaca (community) courts.

  • Transitional Justice and DDR: The Case of Sierra Leone
    September 16, 2024

    Explores the ways in which DDR programs may contribute to, or hinder, the achievement of justice-related aims. Using Sierra Leone as a case study identifies how DDR programs have connected (or failed to connect) with transitional justice and suggests how future programmes might practically establish such links

  • Disarmament, Demobilization, Reintegration (DDR) and Stability in Africa
    September 16, 2024

    Report on the Conference on Disarmament, Demobilization, Reintegration and Stability (DDR) in Africa which took place from 21 to 23 June 2005 in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Organized by the Government of the Republic of Sierra Leone and the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Africa (OSAA). Specific case studies presented on Angola, Burundi, DRC, Liberia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe.

  • Challenges to policy and practice in the DDR of Youth combatants in Liberia
    September 16, 2024

    This paper gives a brief historical background to the conflict in Liberia and explores the factors that led to youth recruitment. The importance of and mechanisms for both social and economic reintegration are explored and considered - including as an intervention to try and prevent recruitment and recycling into conflicts in neighbouring countries.

  • Transitional Justice and DDR: The Case of Liberia
    September 16, 2024

    Explores the relationship between transitional justice and the DDRR program in Liberia during the period of the negotiation of the CPA in 2003 through August 2007, as well as a brief overview of an earlier failed DDRR process.

  • Final Disarmament, Demobilisation & Reintegration of Somalia Militia
    September 16, 2024

    This 2005 scoping paper considers the role of DDR in stabilisation efforts within the Somalia context and what types of programme approaches may be appropriate. Predating subsequent literature on 2G DDR it nevertheless identifies many of the challenges associated with DDR, and its potential utility, in a security and political context where there are multiple groups and ongoing conflict.

  • Review of International Financing Arrangements for DDR, Phase 1 Report to Workin
    September 16, 2024

    This paper constitutes the first part of a review, commissioned by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, of the experience of international actors in financing disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) processes. It is intended to inform the financing-related discussions of Working Group 2 of the Swedish Initiative on Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (SIDDR).