and strengthen capacities of target implementing agencies to deliver gender-sensitive transitional justice programs in relation to the implementation of the National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (NAP WPS) 2017-2022(training and the guarantee of non-recurrence).
initiate public reckoning of gender-based atrocities against women and enticing critical conversations on appropriate transitional justice measures(knowledge-sharing, public information and the right to reparation),
provide space to build initial solidarity between women from the north (Kalinga, Cordillera Administrative Region) and the south (Jolo, Sulu; Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat; Lake Sebu and Tboli, South Cotabato; and Manili, Carmen, North Cotabato)(solidarity-building and the right to justice),
Furthermore, the project intends to highlight women’s agency in documented narratives(narrative documentation and the right to truth),
Specifically, it seeks to establish a memory documentation in aid of developing variousgender-sensitive transitional justice initiatives.
The project entitled“Surfacing Narratives Towards Transitional Justice in the North and South: Weaving Women’s Voices – A Memory Project in Aid of Developing Transitional Justice Interventions”aims to contribute to developing strategies for redress for women victims/survivors of gender-based atrocity crimes before, during, and after Martial Law.
About the Project
Consists of organizing anexecutive course on Gender, Atrocity Prevention and Transitional Justicethat will develop the skills of institutional implementers on operationalizing the right to truth, the right to justice, right to reparation, and guarantee of non-recurrence from a gender perspective.
Training:
Consists ofrepresenting and circulating these narrativesin the form of visual artefacts such as exhibitions (on-site and online), permanently and/or temporarily installed; and moreover, to systematically deploy these representations astools of training and public advocacytowards formulating policies and programs on transitional justice.
Knowledge-Sharing and Public Information:
Covers convening of aWomen’s Summiton Transitional Justice that shall bring together women from various field missions to talk about their experiences and aspirations, to network, and to craft a declaration and/or action plan onwomen advancing transitional justice; and to further solidify this network, building an exclusive online chat site forcontinued engagement.
Solidarity-Building:
Includesmappingof narrative sites and target respondents,field researchto identified research sites,writingof research documents, and the building of arecording and photographic archivein aid of gender-sensitive policy and program development on transitional justice.
Research:
The project consists of four (4) complementary and mutually reinforcing activities:
