Improving Dialogue on Security Governance for Yemen

The project aims to improve sustainability and inclusivity of the peace process and Security Sector Reform and Governance Security Sector Reform and Governance (SSR/G) in Yemen. The project works to achieve this through conducting a series of dialogue sessions that aim to bring together Yemeni stakeholders to address challenges and focus on reforming the security sector. Addressing immediate security issues and arrangements are a first priority for the dialogues. However framing the way these are addressed within the longer-term SSR/G vision incentivise the parties to make progress in the short-term. The specific objectives of the project are centered on tangible progress in terms of shared understandings related to the necessary arrangements that may help progress towards an end to the current conflict even if only through lowering tensions and stopping the actual fighting.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased implementation of key elements (security sector) including gender-responsiveness to enable progress in peace talks and conflict resolution based on a long-term SSR/G vision; (2) improved common understanding of security arrangements & concerns including gender concerns both immediate and long-term; and (3) increased knowledge and awareness of SSR/G and its added value in a peace process among Yemeni actors.