Guidance Notes on Integrating Gender into Security Sector
Oversight:
Experiences from the OSCE and Beyond
Expert Workshop
November 21-22, 2013
Room 525, Hofburg Palace
Vienna, Austria
Background and Objectives
This workshop takes place as part of a project to develop a series of three guidance notes on
gender and security sector oversight, due for publication in April 2014. These practice-oriented
guidance documents will provide practitioners and policymakers in the OSCE area with
information on key gender issues, entry points, strategies and existing good practice. The series
of guidance notes will look at:
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Integrating gender into internal oversight within the police;
Integrating gender into internal oversight within the armed forces; and
Integrating gender into security sector oversight by ombuds institutions and national
human rights institutions.
The project is a collaboration between the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed
Forces (DCAF), the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the
OSCE Gender Section, with the support of the Swiss Development Corporation (SDC).
The participants in the workshop are members of the project’s Advisory Council, individuals
from a wide range of OSCE participating States who have provided expert input into the
guidance notes through the drafting process, as well as a select number of other experts on the
issues.
The objective of the workshop is to reflect on and refine the good practice recommendations in
the three guidance notes. The discussions will be reflected in the finalisation of the drafts. There
will also be sharing of ideas of how the guidance notes can be brought to the attention of key
stakeholders in the police services, armed forces, oversight institutions and other bodies in the
OSCE area.
The organisers gratefully acknowledge SDC’s support for this workshop.
Format
The workshop will involve four 75 minute panels, with two introductory speakers for each
panel. Speakers will present pre-prepared comments during the first 15 minutes, and
participants will contribute throughout the rest of the session with observations and
commentary.
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Agenda
November 21, 2013
18:00 – 19:15
Welcome reception
19:15 – 21:30
Dinner
Steingenberger Hotel, Herrengasse 10
November 22, 2013
08:30 - 09:00
Registration
Room 525, Hofburg Palace
09:00 - 09:20
Opening and welcome remarks
By Ambassador Miroslava Beham of OSCE, Andreea Vesa of ODIHR and Megan
Bastick of DCAF
09:20 – 10:00
Introduction and objectives of the workshop
Facilitators: Megan Bastick, DCAF & Andreea Vesa, ODIHR
This session will include a presentation of the workshop objectives and agenda
and participants’ introductions.
10:00 - 11:15
Session 1: Overseeing gender dimensions of recruitment, promotion and
work/life balance in the police and armed forces
Facilitator: Megan Bastick, DCAF
Points for discussion:
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Uncovering gender bias in recruitment and performance evaluation
What contributes to women’s promotion through the ranks?
Monitoring reasonable work/life balance
Evaluating individual performance to reward gender-responsive service
Introductory speakers:
• Ivan Zverzhanovski
• Zoran Nerandžič
11:15 - 11:30
Coffee/tea break
11:30 - 12:45
Session 2: Overseeing the implementation of gender policies and action
plans in the police and armed forces
Facilitator: Hanna Sands, OSCE
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Points for discussion:
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Structures and mechanisms to internally and externally monitor
implementation of gender policy
Specialised gender monitoring bodies vs. integrated mechanisms
Monitoring responses to domestic and sexual violence in the community
Priorities for resource-poor departments/forces
Introductory speakers:
• Ruth Montgomery
• Mirela Rrumbullaku
12:45-12:55
Official Photograph
12:55 - 13:40
Buffet lunch
13:40 - 14:55
Session 3: Overseeing responses to sexual harassment, discrimination
and violence by and within the police and armed forces
Facilitator: Andreea Vesa, ODIHR
Points for discussion:
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How to measure an underreported problem?
Building accessibility of and trust in complaints processes
Effective follow up of complaints
Monitoring changes in attitude and behaviour
Introductory speakers:
• Nicholas Long
• Claudia Bayliff
14:55 – 15:10
Coffee/tea break
15:10 - 16:25
Session 4: Building the gender capacity of oversight actors
Facilitator: Hanna Sands, OSCE
Points for discussion:
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Fostering senior level leadership on gender issues
Does women’s presence on oversight bodies make a difference?
Training for oversight actors that works, and more innovative
approaches
International platforms for building capacity amongst oversight actors
Introductory speakers:
• Peter Tinsley
• Kjell Arne Bratli
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16:25- 17:30
Wrap-up and next steps
Facilitators: Megan Bastick, DCAF & Andreea Vesa, ODIHR
This session will reflect on the key themes that have arisen in the four sessions,
outline the next steps to publication, and collect ideas of strategies to present the
guidance notes, once completed, to key audiences.
17:30
Departure of participants
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List of participants
Last name, first name
Title
Organisation and country
Andersson, Lena
Consultant
Balkans Analysis Group,
Sweden
Bastick, Megan
Gender and Security Fellow
Geneva Centre for the
Democratic Control of Armed
Forces (DCAF), Switzerland
Bayliff, Claudia
Project Attorney
National Judicial Education
Programme, United States
Beham, Miroslava
(Ambassador)
Senior Advisor on Gender
Issues
OSCE, Austria
Bratli, Kjell Arne
Parliamentary Commissioner
for the Armed Forces
Norway
Collins, James
Gender Focal Point
NATO SHAPE, Belgium
Dvořáková, Magdalena
Military assistant to the
Minister
Ministry of Defence, Czech
Republic
Gulakova, Bunafsha
Consultant
Austria
Huthanen, Heather
Project Coordinator, Gender
and Security Programme
Geneva Centre for the
Democratic Control of Armed
Forces (DCAF), Switzerland
Isaksson, Charlotte
Senior Gender Advisor
NATO Allied Command
Operations, Belgium
Katsitadze, Natia
Head of Justice Department
Office of the Public Defender,
Georgia
Kubny, Marco
Acting Head, Strategic Police
Matters Unit
OSCE, Austria
Long, Nicholas
Consultant
IRIS, United Kingdom
Marrinan Quinn, Paulyn
Former Founding
Ombudsman for the Defence
Ireland
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Forces (2005-2012)
Montgomery, Ruth
Consultant
Pyxis Consulting Group,
Canada
Mrsevic, Zorica
Researcher
Institute of Social Sciences,
Serbia
Nerandžič Zoran
Armed Forces Ombudsman &
Head of the Ministerial
Inspection
Ministry of Defence, Czech
Republic
Rrumbullaku, Mirela
Gender Specialist, Directorate
of Strategic Policies and
Planning
Ministry of Defence, Albania
Sands, Hanna
Gender Advisor
OSCE, Austria
Stadler, Claudia
Project Assistant, Gender
Section
OSCE, Austria
Tinsley, Peter
Justice Sector Consultant
Canada
Triquet, Veerle
Research Assistant, Gender
and Security Programme
Geneva Centre for the
Democratic Control of Armed
Forces (DCAF), Switzerland
Vesa, Andreea
ODIHR Human Rights Officer
OSCE/ODIHR, Poland
Zverzhanovski, Ivan
Coordinator
UNDP/ The South Eastern and
Eastern Europe Clearinghouse
for the Control of Small Arms
and Light Weapons (SEESAC),
Serbia
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