International

US State Department 2013 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Hero Award

The International Women’s Achievement Alliance is pleased to announce that Laura ANYOLA TUFON, COORDINATOR JPC ARCHDIOCESE OF BAMENDA, COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS-CAMEROON and a member of the IWAA has been honored to be selected as a candidate (...)

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Cameroun

Yaounde, 07 th December 2012 : PRESS RELEASE

For immediate releaseBOUBA Norbert, President of Cellule de Veille et de Protection des Victimes des Activités Minières (Celpro) de FIGUIL currently intimidated for his activities in the North of Cameroon …..The Cameroon Coalition of Publish (...)

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Sierra Leone

Building Partnership For Peace

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This end of year editon of the Civil Peace Service Mano River Regional Newsleter is primarily published in tme to cover current peace building events of EED Partners and the seeming threats to peace in the region in 2011 (...)

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Sierra Leone

Joint Principles of Operation For Peace Work In Election Times

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We, the CPS Network in the Mano River Region pledge to work for sustainable peace in the region and accordingly, we commit ourselves individually and collectively to the following: We pledge to promote political tolerance and mutual respect (...)

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Building Peace : Our work for change

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Results orientation, the monitoring of outcomes and impacts, has become more or less anobligationfor thepartner organisations in Africaand elsewhere financed by developmentsystems.On the onehand,we can only be delighted with this shift away from the reasoning predominated by descriptions of activities and enumerations of quantitative data in reporting often devoid of meaning.

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Peacebuilding & conflict transformation : A resource book

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When Katharina Schilling showed us the two compilations, resource book and methods book, she had painstakingly put together on the basis of her work experi-ence and the challenges of working with many young people in Sierra Leone and Cameroon, we felt these tools should be made available to a larger public in Africa and beyond.

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Peacebuilding & conflict transformation : Methods & games to facilitate training sessions

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When Katharina Schilling showed us the two compilations, resource book and methods book, she had painstakingly put together on the basis of her work experi-ence and the challenges of working with many young people in Sierra Leone and Cameroon, we felt these tools should be made available to a larger public in Africa and beyond.

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The gender approach : peace work and the fight against discrimination

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This publication on gender approach, discrimination and peace building is intended to illustrate the links between these different fields of action. These issues do not only affect relations between men and women, but also between young people and old, between ethnic or religious groups, people with different skin colour or sexual orientations.

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New Civil Peace Service booklet/Building Peace 7 : Peace work in Cameroon

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In 2010, AGEH and EED began to accompany and support the efforts of their respective partners in Cameroon as part of the Civil Peace Serv- ice (CPS/ZFD) funded by the German Ministry for Economic Cooper- ation and Development (BMZ). The CPS network in Cameroon was launched in May 2011. A shared vision for peace and stability in the country was drawn up by 35 representatives, women and men, from 18 organisations and institutions in civil society in Cameroon. You will find this vision described on page 1. But why do peace work in a country that is not at war? How exactly do we want to (...)

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Peace work during election periods : Challenge and opportunities

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We decided to devote the sixth edition of “Building Peace” to the sub- ject of “Peace work during election periods”. This is because our partner organisations and peace workers in DRC, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Cameroon, as well as the partner organisations and colleagues from AGEH in Burundi and DRC, were and remain concerned by the chal- lenge the election process represents for those who are working to reduce divisions and build peace and stability. The events surrounding the elections in Guinea and particularly in Côte d’Ivoire have destabilised the whole of West (...)

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Civil Peace Service in the Great Lakes Region  : Challenges and achievements

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The Civil Peace Service (CPS – in German: Ziviler Friedensdienst, ZFD) was set up in 1999 by the German government among others in response to requests from civil society. It serves as an instrument for making human resources available to the partners in countries in conflict, post-conflict or destabilised situations in order to boost their capacity to contribute to sustainable peace. The German CPS operators work with their local partners in the countries and regions (...)

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Advocacy for Change : Our struggle for Peace

Advocacy for Change : Our struggle for Peace

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In recent years, advocacy has become a key word in development work and peace building initiatives. We have decided to move beyond the ‘buzz words’ and instead pull together some case studies and lessons learned from various advocacy initiatives of the “Civil Peace Service, EED”. We will present some of the main concepts of this work and outline some of the fundamental tools that have been developed by other actors and stakeholders as well as by ourselves in the hope that they will bring added value and increased efficiency to your advocacy initiatives. The first step is to define (...)

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Our contribution to peace : a patchwork of complementary actions

Our contribution to peace : a patchwork of complementary actions

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The Civil Peace Service Programme (CPS) of the Brot für die Welt, the Church Development Service of the association of Germany’s Protestant Churches, in cooperation with its partners in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and in the Mano River region of West Africa, seeks to strengthen, in a lasting way, civil organizations and groups – governmental and non-governmental, local, regional and national – around two important objectives.

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International cooperation in Crisis Zones : Multiple identities and shared commitment

International cooperation in Crisis Zones :Multiple identities and shared commitment

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The Civil Peace Services engage participants from numerous cultures to work together in peace-building, whether to prevent conflict, transform it or stabilize the situation to bring lasting peace. This multiculturalism is perceived as an opportunity in the sense that it permits participants to learn with and from each other, contributing experiences and methods that have been effective elsewhere. The professional support persons from the Civil Peace Services bring their own contribution, transform and stabilize conflicts to build sustainable (...)

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Demystifying impact  : Our Work for Change

Demystifying impact : Our Work for Change

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Impact is a key concept regarding peace-building activities. But it has also become a myth in a jungle where every attempt of looking critically at your own work seems shaped by donors’ demands and actually ill-adapted to field realities. In this booklet CPS/EED proposes methods, examples and techniques for demystifying impact and develop your own way of measuring and analysing change. Your reactions and experiences are very welcome!

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