The evidence demonstrates that placing gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls at the heart of our conflict, peace and security work is both the right thing to do and the smart thing to do if we are to meet our wider UK security, defence, conflict and stability objectives.
The Women Peace and Security Helpdesk, managed by Saferworld in partnership with Conciliation Resources, GAPS UK, University of Durham and Women International Peace Centre (WIPC), was established in December 2021 to increase capability across the UK Government on WPS policy and programming in order to make its work on conflict and instability more effective.
