GENDER IMPLICATIONS IN RECENT CONFLICTS: THE NATO PERSPECTIVE. LTC John Moore (USA) Legal Advisor/GENAD NATO Joint Warfare Center Stavanger, Norway

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1 GENDER IMPLICATIONS IN RECENT CONFLICTS: THE NATO PERSPECTIVE LTC John Moore (USA) Legal Advisor/GENAD NATO Joint Warfare Center Stavanger, Norway

2 AGENDA CURRENT AND RECENT CONFLICTS INVOLVING NATO NATO S DOCUMENTARY COMMITMENT TO GENDER NATO S PERSONNEL and TRAINING COMMITMENT TO GENDER GENDER INITIATIVES and ACTIVITIES IN THE CONFLICTS GENAD BEST PRACTICES DURING RS AND ISAF SOME FRUITS OF GENDER EFFORTS in ISAF and RESOLUTE SUPPORT NATO EERCISES GENAD BEST PRACTICES FOR EERCISES

3 CURRENT CONFLICTS Resolute Support/International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) RS Launched JAN 5, Commander: General John W. Nicholson (USA) On the Heels of ISAF (August 00 to December 04) RS is a Non-combat Mission Providing Training, Advice and Assistance to Afghan Security Forces RS Total Strength: approximately,000; ISAF: 80,000 at peak Kosovo Force (KFOR) Launched June 999, Commander: Major General Giovanni Fungo (ITA) Troop Contributing Nations KFOR Total Strength: 4,7 Operation Sea Guardian Assistance to the African Union

4 NATO S DOCUMENTARY COMMITMENT TO GENDER Joint SOP 06: Gender Advisor s Funcitons in JFC & JTF Allied Command Operations (ACO) Gender Functional Planning Guide (July 05) Bi-Strategic Command Directive (BI-SCD) 40- (8 August 0) NATO Action Plan for Implementation of UNSCR 5 and supplementary UNSCRs. ( June 04) NATO Women, Peace, Security (WPS) Policy, Action Plan and Progress Report (October 04)

5 NATO S PERSONNEL and TRAINING COMMITMENT TO GENDER Ambassador Marriët Schuurman, NATO s first Special Representative for WPS Hiring Permanent Civilian GENADs Hiring Temporary Contractor GENADs for Exercises Training and Appointment of Gender Advisors (GENADs) in Each Command Part of Commander s Advisory Group Many are Dual-Hatted who Receive Training NATO Military and Civilian Personnel Training and Appointment of Gender Focal Points in Each Command and in Deployed Units Expected to Dedicate 0-5 % of time to Integrating Gender Perspectives NATO-Approved Gender Courses at SWEDINT NCGM: - Week GENAD Course Key Leader Seminar on Gender Commanding Officer Seminar on Gender Gender Training of Trainers Course Gender Courses Offered Online in Joint Advanced Distributed Learning (JADL)

6 GENDER INITIATIVES AND ACTIVITIES IN THE CONFLICTS: ISAF and RESOLUTE SUPPORT ISAF Extensive Gender Advisor Network: 8 full time GENADs; posts unfilled; numerous GFPs. (See Chart, next slide) Initiatives to Increase Number of Women in Afghanistan Army and Police Force Female Engagement Teams; Mixed Engagement Teams Resolute Support 5 GENAD posts; numerous GFPs. Ministry of Foreign Affairs National Action Plan on Gender (05) Monitoring of Gender Achievements in Place after ISAF

7 Gender Network ISAF UN EUPOL NGOs, GOs EMBASSIES SCR GFP NATO SHAPE JFC-B ISAF 5 GA (4 in RS) (8 GFP) GA: gender advisor GFP: gender focal point IJC GA NSOCC-A GA GIRoA MoD TAAC-S GFP/ RS GA TAAC-N GA/ RS GA TAAC-W GA/RS GA TAAC-E GFP/ GA RS TAAC-C GFP/ GA RS MoI MoWA

8 HERAT 0 07 th Corps 07 HEART 0 07 SHINDAD 0 9 ANA UNIFORMED FEMALE FORCE LAYDOWN as of 04 5 th Corps SHORABAK 0 5 GARMSIR 0 5 DELARAM 0 5 SHORAB 0 4 # 7 II Commando Afghanistan: All SOF 9 CDO KDKs NATO/RS UNCLASSIFIED REL GIRoA 4 th Division KABUL 8 KABUL 0 KABUL 0 KANDAHAR 0 MOD 98 GS 70 KABUL INTERMEDIATE COMMANDS 47 CADETS 05 th Corps 05 KANDAHAR 0 05 QALAT 0 05 KANDAHAR 0 05 TARIN KOT th Corps MeS 7 09 FARYAB 0 09 KUNDUZ 0 09 MeS 0 AAF 5 KABUL WING - KANDAHAR WING - 0 PEH - 0 st Corps KABUL 6 0 KABUL 0 0 JALALABAD 0 0 KABUL 0 0 KABUL 0 0 rd Corps GARDEZ 0 0 KHOST 0 0 SHARAN 0 0 GHAZNI 0 0 LOGAR 0 AAF SHINDAND WING -

9 ANP FEMALE FORCE LAYDOWN AUP Balkh 7 ABP Zone 5 56 Bde ANCOP ABP Zone 4 9 Bde ANCOP 4 AUP Capital Bde ANCOP 6 Bde ANCOP AUP Herat GCPSU 8 ABP Kabul 55 ABP Zone 8 AUP Nangarhar AUP Paktiya ABP Zone 5 Bde ANCOP TAAC-E NoK ABP Zone Bde ANCOP AUP Helmand AUP Kandahar 4 Bde ANCOP ABP Zone 8 TAAC-E SoK KHOST 44 PAKTIKA LOGAR 4 LAGHMAN 0 KUNAR 4 Nangarhar 87 KAPISA 0 NATO/RS UNCLASSIFIED REL GIRoA

10 GENAD BEST PRACTICES DURING RS AND ISAF Get out of the Office: Visit HN Military/Police s, MoI, MoD, etc, Spread the Message on Gender Perspectives Visit as Many Embassies and Consulates as Possible and Brief on Gender Initiatives Maintain Close Relationship with UN Offices, ie, UN Women, UNICEF Conduct nationwide GENAD VTCs at least Bi-Weekly with Gender SMEs as well as Unit Leaders Faithful Writing of Monthly Reports to SHAPE per BI-SC 40- Seize Opportunities to Write Gender FRAGOs, Local SOPs and Point Papers

11 SOME FRUITS OF GENDER EFFORTS in ISAF and RESOLUTE SUPPORT April 07: Expected Graduation of Ten Afghan Women from a Seven-Year Combat Medical Doctor s Course March 07: 40 Female Officers Graduated from the Afghan National Army Officer Academy a Record Number 06: Significant Increase in Families Consenting to Female Relatives Pursuing Military or Law Enforcement Career January 05: First ever all-female Legal Conference at Afghanistan Supreme Court January 04: Col Jamila Bayaz, First Female Appointed Police Chief, assigned to First District of Kabul

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13 Women in the ANSF 785 women in ANA = 0,4% Total ANA strength: About 400 women in ANP =,4% Total ANP strength:

14 JWC Exercise Mission: NATO s Footprint in the North Execute joint, operational level collective training to: Support on-going operations Train Joint and Combined staffs (NCS and NFS) Contribute to NATO s lessons learned process Support concept and doctrine development and synchronize experimentation into operational level exercises Stavanger

15 Exercise Participants Training Audience (TA) NCS or NFS s one or several tiers Exercise Control (ECON) EDIR & ECEN Response cells (HICON/LOCON/WHC/) MEL/MIL & Scenario Media Training Teams Senior Mentors

16 NATO UNCLASSIFIED REL PfP SKOLKAN Setting for Exercises Regional actors: Skolkan Nations Bothnia Torrike Lindsey Arnland Framland (Friendly) Otso (Buffer) NATO Nations Estonia Latvia Lithuania Poland Germany Denmark Norway * Russia is neutral country and will remain out of the crisis External actors: Dushman Supports Bothnia Novus Ordo Mundi Regional terrorists

17 GENAD BEST PRACTICES FOR EERCISES Assign Experienced GENAD to TA. Become Involved During Exercise Planning. Ensure there is an Experienced GENAD on TT who can Mentor the TA GENAD. TA GENAD Takes Time to Write High Quality Gender Annexes and Appendix. Stick to Basic Gender Concepts: FETs/METs CRSGBV/SEA Support the Military Objective, as Stated in Gender Functional Planning Guide GENAD Must Speak up, Especially During Targeting Events. Time is Short at Exercises.