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IV.
COMMITMENT TO ENHANCING THE AGENDA ON WOMEN PEACE AND
SECURITY
We commit to push forward the women‟s full and effective participation in conflict
prevention, management, peace-building, reconstruction and negotiation; and to this
end, we resolve:
V.
a)
To develop, implement and report on National and Regional Action
Plans on UNSRC 1325 to accelerate the Women, Peace and Security
Agenda;
b)
To develop and implement a Plan of Action towards Silencing the Guns
by 2020 for promoting women‟s participation in conflict prevention,
resolution and post-conflict rebuilding;
c)
To establish mechanisms to identify survivors of sexual and genderbased abuses and provide psycho-social and economic care during
conflict and post-conflict situations;
d)
To eliminate impunity on all forms of violence against women and girls;
e)
To facilitate access to justice, rehabilitation and recovery, especially for
child soldiers, and survivors of sexual and gender-based violence; and,
f)
To install a monument at the Africa Union Headquarters honouring
women who have contributed to the African anti-colonial and antiapartheid liberation movements, and the resolution of conflicts on the
continent.
COMMITMENT
GOVERNANCE
TO
ENHANCING
WOMEN’S
PARTICIPATION
IN
We commit to implement all AU policies on gender parity and participation of women
in judicial processes and institutions, especially in governance and at decisionmaking levels, such as the Supreme Court, Constitutional Courts, and Regional
Courts; and to this end, we resolve:
a) To ensure that women are part of the electoral machinery, including
Institutions that address violence before, during, and after elections.
VI.
COMMITMENT TO ENHANCING WOMEN AND GIRLS’ ACCESS TO
EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
We commit to enhance women‟s and girls‟ access to education, science and
technology and to this end we resolve;
a)
To increase education and training investment in institutions/enterprises,
accredited for quality, in science and technology (S&T), information and
communications technology (ICT), engineering, mathematics, agriculture