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BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS FOR PEACE
ORGANISATION
PROFILE
Welcome to WANEP!
ABOUT WANEP
• The West Africa Network for
Peacebuilding (WANEP) is a
leading Regional Peacebuilding
organization founded in 1998 in
response to civil wars that
plagued West Africa in the
1990s.
• Over the years, WANEP has
succeeded in establishing a
strong national network in
every Member State of
ECOWAS with over 500 member
organizations across West
Africa.
ABOUT WANEP
WANEP places special focus on
collaborative approaches to
conflict prevention, and
peacebuilding, working with
diverse actors from civil society,
governments, intergovernmental
bodies, women groups and other
partners in a bid to establish a
platform for dialogue, experience
sharing and learning, thereby
complementing efforts at
ensuring sustainable peace and
development in West Africa and
beyond.
ABOUT WANEP
In 2002, WANEP entered
into a historic
partnership with the
Economic Community of
West African States
(ECOWAS) an intergovernmental structure
in the implementation of
a regional early warning
and response system
(ECOWARN).
ABOUT WANEP
A memorandum of
understanding between WANEP
and ECOWAS was signed in
2004 for five years, and has
since been renewed for another
5 years. This partnership
constitutes a major strategic
achievement for WANEP and
West Africa civil society as it
offers the much desired
opportunity to contribute to
Track I response to conflicts and
policy debates.
ABOUT WANEP
At the continental level, WANEP
is a member of the Peace and
Security cluster of the African
Union’s (AU) Economic, Social
and Cultural Council –ECOSOCC
representing West Africa. At
international level, WANEP has
a Special Consultative Status
with the United Nations
Economic and Social Council
(ECOSOC) and is the West Africa
Regional Representative of the
Global Partnership for the
Prevention of Armed Conflict
(GPPAC). WANEP is the Chair of
GPPAC.
ABOUT WANEP
WANEP provides professional
courses in conflict prevention
and peacebuilding informed by
several years of practice
experience to governments,
businesses, and practitioners
throughout the sub-region and
beyond.
Underlying its work is a
commitment to
professionalism and a
dedication to a world of mutual
respect, tolerance and peace.
REGIONAL REACH, NATIONAL PRESENCE
WANEP adopts a two-pronged approach in programming: a
national approach led by the national secretariat and a regional
approach coordinatedfrom the regional secretariat. At national
level, the national networks assume responsibility and
ownership of their programme with technical support from the
regional secretariat. WANEP principles emphasize ownership of
peacebuilding practice. Given that the national networks
understand their situation and realities , they are in a better
position to engage their communities and government and
intervene effectively.
REGIONAL REACH, NATIONAL PRESENCE
Our national networks facilitate a more bottom-up approach
and allow their intervention to reflect the peculiarities of the
issues of human security in their various countries. At regional
level, it is acknowledged that factors that fuel conflicts and their
escalation in our sub-region are no respecters of artificiallyimposed boundaries. Our regional programmes cut across
national networks and are designed to increase leverage in
engaging diverse actors at regional and international level.
Overall, WANEP's strategy is to locate, empower, support and
accompany local actors as they respond to conflicts within their
communities.
Map of West Africa
ORGANISATIONAL COMMITMENT
Vision: A West Africa
region characterized by
just and peaceful
communities where the
dignity of the human
person is paramount and
where the people can
meet their basic human
needs and decide their
own direction.
ORGANISATIONAL COMMITMENT
• Mission: To enable and facilitate the
development of mechanisms for cooperation
among civil society-based peacebuilding
practitioners and organizations in West
Africa by promoting cooperative responses
to violent conflicts; providing the structure
through which these practitioners and
institutions will regularly exchange
experience and information on issues of
peacebuilding, conflict transformation,
social, religious and political reconciliation;
and promoting West Africa’s social cultural
values as resources for peacebuilding.
WANEP
PROGRAM
PORTFOLIO
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WARN
WAPI
WIPNET
CSDG
NAPE
SPECIAL
INTERVENTIONS
Our regional programmes cut
across national networks and are
designed to increase leverage in
engaging diverse actors at regional
and international level. Overall,
WANEP's strategy is to locate,
empower, support and accompany
local actors as they respond to
conflicts within their communities.
WARN
WARN is an integral of WANEP’s overall
conflict prevention mechanism. It works to
enhance human security in West Africa by
monitoring and reporting socio-political
situations that could degenerate into violent
and destructive conflicts. WARN informs policy
makers on options for response on one hand
and WANEP’s response strategies on the
other hand. The programme (NEWS) is setting
up community-based conflict monitoring
systems with local monitors to produce
conflict and peace assessment reports, early
warning reports, and policy briefs which are
widely disseminated to CSOs, governments,
intergovernmental bodies, partners, and UN
agencies.
WAPI
Launched in 2002, WAPI seeks to increase
the knowledge base in West Africa by
contributing to research and enhancing
the skills and expertise of individuals,
organizations and businesses in the area
of conflict prevention and peacebuilding.
As at 2010 WANEP has trained and
strengthened the capacity of over 400
practitioners and regional bodies including
ECOWAS and UN agencies.
WIPNET
The Women in Peacebuilding Network
(WIPNET) Programme was launched in
November 2001 with the aim of building the
capacity of women to enhance their roles in
peacebuilding and post conflict reconstruction
in West Africa. WANEP through WIPNET seeks
to increase the number of trained women
practitioners in peacebuilding as trainers,
researchers, mediators and advocates.
Through community mobilization and other
innovative platforms, WANEP strives to
provide a forum for women at the grassroots
to amplify their voices on issues of peace and
human security.Under the WIPNET
programme, WANEP promotes mainstreaming
gender perspective into peacebuilding and
conflict prevention frameworks at community,
national and regional level.
CSDG
• The Civil Society Coordination
and Democratic Governance
programme provides an
integrated platform for WANEP
engagement with diverse
stakeholders to promote
peaceful democratic transition,
conflict resolving governance
and enhance democratic
structures, institutions and
practices at various levels.
• Under the CSDG, WANEP
partners with CSOs to monitor
and mitigate election-related
conflicts with the view to
promote dialogue and peaceful
elections.
NAPE
Launched in May 2000, NAPE seeks to
promote the culture of nonviolence and
peace within West African communities with
particular focus on children and youth in
schools and in the informal sector. The
programme promotes peer mediation and
peace clubs in schools as well as peace
education curriculums at various levels:
schools, colleges, teachers’ training colleges,
universities and policy level. Peacebuilding is
not an event but rather a process which
when properly inculcated in the minds and
comportment of children, youth and adult;
they will become agents of change – this is
the philosophy behind NAPE.
SPECIAL INTERVENTIONS
The Special Intervention initiatives
dimension under this programme
mainly aims at enabling WANEP’s
involvement in search of a peaceful
settlement of crisis at its nascent
state. This programme promotes
inter and intra communal dialogue
and peaceful coexistence. It
provides expertise and support for
dialogue as well as enhance the
mediated capacities of
communities.
WANEP
BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS FOR PEACE