Advancing the WPS Agenda: WANEP-Nigeria Win 2022 Civil Society Leadership Award

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By Isaac Eranga

A foremost peacebuilding network in Nigeria - the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP)- Nigeria, has won the 2022 Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Civil Society Leadership Award for outstanding achievements in gender-transformative interventions, specifically aimed at addressing conflict related to climate change. This distinction was awarded by Global Affairs Canada as part of their second annual WPS Awards.

In honour of the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Security Resolution (1325), Global Affairs Canada launched its Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Awards Program. These awards recognize those who have gone above and beyond to advance the WPS agenda by highlighting excellence in research and civil society leadership.

According to Global Affairs Canada cited in https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/issues_development-enjeux_developpement/gender_equality-egalite_des_genres/wps-fps-award-prix.aspx?lang=eng on Wednesday June 14, 2023, WANEP Nigeria "has used innovative programming to reduce farmer-herder conflict by operationalizing an early-warning mechanism. It has trained women leaders in peacebuilding and climate change adaptation in the Niger Delta, and works with State and non-State actors to build and strengthen peace architectures.

"The 2022 Award recognizes individuals, organizations, and/or networks whose contributions address the disproportionate impact of climate change-related conflict and insecurity on women and girls. Recognized by the United Nations Security Council as a significant ‘threat multiplier’, climate change contributes to heightened fragility, and can further destabilize fragile and conflict-affected settings and undermine peace and security in climate-impacted communities.

"The purpose of this awards program is to help address some of the gaps that hinder the full implementation of the WPS agenda—notably, the lack of recognition of and support for the important role civil society plays in implementing the agenda and the gaps in the evidence base supporting the agenda’s implementation. The program includes a research award led by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and a civil society leadership award led by Global Affairs Canada (GAC).

"United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1325 calls on us to recognize women as powerful agents of change. Far too often, the invaluable role that women play in ending and preventing conflict goes unnoticed. The world must respect, listen to and stand with women in all their diversity".

WANEP-Nigeria is a member of the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding, a regional network of peacebuilding civil society organizations in West African States founded in 1998 as a response to the outbreak of civil wars across the region.

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