Promoting Women Peace and Security Through a Culture of Peace and Social Cohesion in Cameroon

This project seeks to improve gender and age inclusivity throughout peace processes in Cameroon. Reach Out Cameroon aims to strengthen grassroots women’s participation and leadership in peacebuilding efforts and provide frameworks for peaceful dialogue violence prevention trauma healing and coordinated peace advocacy and mediation efforts. Project activities include: (1) facilitating the training of women and youth through workshops on peacebuilding techniques; (2) creating local Community Peace Hubs and regional Peace Tables that serve as peacebuilding coordination bodies; (3) supporting Mobile Peace Clinics to target hard-to-reach communities of women and men to promote awareness education and mediation on community tensions peacebuilding positive masculinity non-violent resolutions of conflict and basic sexual and reproductive health education; (4) establishing a Peace House to train civil society organizations; and (5) conducting a multi-regional forum for Women Peace and Security leaders to exchange best practices and lessons learned from peacebuilding work across six conflict-affected regions in Cameroon.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) increased participation of grassroots women and young adult women in local decision-making structures; (2) increased community acceptance of the role of women and young adult women in peacebuilding and community mediation; and (3) increased peacebuilding and community mediation actions by community-based and civil society organizations especially women-led organizations.