BUILDING SKILLS • AND • EXPERTISE

“WASL members constitute a tightly knit network of like-minded organizations, whose technical, thematic and managerial capacities vary greatly.

By sharing its own thematic knowledge and facilitating experience sharing, ICAN supports learning about technical issues such as preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE), and the link with peacebuilding more broadly.”

- Final Evaluation, Merits Partnerships

Throughout the year, we provided a range of support, including strategic accompaniment, capacity building and rapid response grants to WASL members engaged in peace and political transition processes. We also facilitated peerto-peer, multi-stakeholder, and cross-country learning and exchange of analysis, strategies, and solutions.

Our practical guidance and advisory services include gendered conflict- and peace analyses, inclusive peace process design, and innovative multi-media and multi-lingual tools, such as animated explainers and advocacy briefs.

In 2022 we translated the ICAN Better Peace Tool (BPT) into Turkish. The BPT offers guidance on why inclusivity and gender responsiveness in peace and security matters and how to put principles into practice. It is now available in 13 languages and used widely across many sectors.

As part of our ongoing series, we also published four new case studies on effective gendered practices in preventing and countering violent extremisms.

“ICAN has put together these helpful policy briefs, they are thoughtful and strategic to identify gaps, particularly in terms of making 1325 concrete and real.”

- Donor, Final Evaluation, Merits Partnerships