Mainstreaming gender’s concerns is particularly important in conflict context related countries. A feminisation of the population usually suggests that it is on women that reconstruction policies should start in order to rebuild a social safety net destroyed by the war and recreate a social environment of trust and reconciliation. Particularly in Burundi where due to genocidary acts more women than usually have been left alone in the reconstruction, gender-aware policies and specific policies addressed to women are key issues. If the quality of the dramatic events related to the repeated crises in Burundi is well know, less is known on the real numeric extent of the people affected by the long-term civil conflict that is on going in Burundi despite a thorough control administration structures have on the territory. Although numeric data are difficult to find, nevertheless women and other groups of the civil society have put in place a number of copying strategies by associating and organising themselves in order to resist the worst effects of the war. These sorts of examples are to be taken into account and supported with the resources available, as it is in difficult situations like these ones that positive changes, not only the negative ones, can occur and be codified within the tradition.

Impact of Conflict on women, children and vulnerable groups, Burundi. (Study mission report, International Fund for Agricultural Development, Rome)

DECLICH, FRANCESCA
2003

Abstract

Mainstreaming gender’s concerns is particularly important in conflict context related countries. A feminisation of the population usually suggests that it is on women that reconstruction policies should start in order to rebuild a social safety net destroyed by the war and recreate a social environment of trust and reconciliation. Particularly in Burundi where due to genocidary acts more women than usually have been left alone in the reconstruction, gender-aware policies and specific policies addressed to women are key issues. If the quality of the dramatic events related to the repeated crises in Burundi is well know, less is known on the real numeric extent of the people affected by the long-term civil conflict that is on going in Burundi despite a thorough control administration structures have on the territory. Although numeric data are difficult to find, nevertheless women and other groups of the civil society have put in place a number of copying strategies by associating and organising themselves in order to resist the worst effects of the war. These sorts of examples are to be taken into account and supported with the resources available, as it is in difficult situations like these ones that positive changes, not only the negative ones, can occur and be codified within the tradition.
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