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Guidelines for the improvement of women’s status and situation in the Euro-Mediterranean area<br />

were developed by the inclusion of specific recommendations in the five-year work plan adopted at<br />

the Barcelona Summit of Heads of State and Government in November 2005 19 .<br />

The EU is committed to contributing to the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution<br />

1325. The Resolution reaffirms the important role of women in the prevention and resolution of<br />

conflicts, peace negotiations, peace-building, peacekeeping, humanitarian responses and post-<br />

conflict reconstruction and stresses the importance of their equal participation and full involvement<br />

in all efforts for the maintenance and promotion of peace and security.<br />

The EU is working in substantive terms towards the 10th anniversary of the adoption of Resolution<br />

1325. In this respect, the Commission and the Council Secretariat have jointly elaborated a<br />

Comprehensive Approach to the EU implementation of UN Security Council Resolutions 1325 and<br />

1820 on women, peace and security.<br />

Apart from the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR), and the thematic<br />

programme Investing in People, which both include the equal participation of men and women as an<br />

important objective, in April 2007, the European Commission jointly with the United Nations<br />

Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), and the International Training Centre of the<br />

International Labour Organisation (ITC-ILO),launched the EC/UN Partnership on Gender Equality<br />

for Development and Peace: this programme seeks to build a capacity of relevant actors and<br />

improve accountability for gender equality in 12 focus countries.<br />

Enlargement policy<br />

Enlargement policy has led candidate countries and potential candidate countries to align<br />

themselves with the acquis communautaire and European standards on equality and to create<br />

appropriate institutional and administrative structures.<br />

19 http://wcmcom-ec-europa-euwip.wcmvue.cec.eu.int:8080/external_relations/euromed/summit1105/five_years_en.pdf<br />

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ANNEX <strong>DG</strong> G EN

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