Women Civil Society Leaders Shape the Future of the WPS Agenda in Papua New Guinea
At a pivotal roundtable in Port Moresby, women-led CSOs outlined a vision to address conflict-related violence, advocate for policy changes, and strengthen women's role in peacebuilding across PNG.
A critical step toward progressing the Ladies, Peace, and Security (WPS) motivation in Papua Modern Guinea (PNG) has been taken by women-led Respectful Society Organizations (CSOs). Amid a Practitioners Roundtable in Harbour Moresby on February 5-6, 2025, CSO agents reported their vision to address key challenges influencing ladies in conflict-prone communities.
The archive, titled A CSO and Women’s Motivation for WPS, highlights squeezing concerns such as tribal conflict-related sexual viciousness, the focusing on of ladies through divination allegations, the spread of drugs and guns, and the constraint of ladies and young ladies into outfitted bunches as value-based security. It too addresses the affect of climate change-driven relocation on ladies and girls.
Bringing together 34 ladies from PNG’s four regions Highlands, Modern Guinea Islands, Momase, and Southern the roundtable given a stage for CSOs to verbalize their needs and advocate for a more grounded execution of the WPS system. The occasion coincided with the 25th commemoration of the WPS motivation, a worldwide activity pointed at guaranteeing women’s full cooperation in peace processes.
Tosin Akibu, Delegate Nation Agent of UN Ladies PNG, energized members to imagine peace, emphasizing the part of ladies peacebuilders in tending to the root causes of savagery. “You’re the specialists of peace,” she expressed, reaffirming UN Women’s commitment to supporting CSOs and the government in actualizing a localized WPS agenda.
Lilly Be’Soer, Official Chief of Voice for Alter, pushed the pressing require for government activity. “Women’s CSOs are at the bleeding edge of strife anticipation, but we are depleted. The government must prioritize the WPS motivation and guarantee genuine usage at all levels national, common, area, and ward,” she said.
Government agents, counting Kebe Mada from the Division for Community Improvement and Religion, vowed their commitment to the plan, whereas Ruth Kissam-Tindiwi of the Progressing PNG Ladies Pioneers Organize displayed a CSO point of view on the current state of WPS in PNG.
The roundtable reinforced solidarity among women-led CSOs and laid the establishment for a arrange committed to progressing the WPS motivation in PNG. It too shapes a key portion of the Engage Her PNG Peace Activity, a Peacebuilding Fund-supported extend pointed at opening up women’s authority in security and peace endeavors.
