Theme: Women, Peace, & Security

The DIWAN project was implemented by Search for Common Ground in Wadi Khaled between 2017 and 2019 with funding from the Global Affairs Canada. Diwan aimed at strengthening equitable and inclusive decision-making processes and ensuring more participatory and representative governance in the community. The project engaged with representatives from local…

The objective of this baseline study is to support the above project by studying the existing situation of Elected Women Leaders (EWLs) and Women Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) leaders’ participation in decision making. This includes examining the barriers, supporting factors, opportunities, needs, and existing efforts of EWLs and female CSO…

Since July 2020, the French Embassy-funded program, "Empowering Women and Youth in South Kordofan", and the EU-funded project, "Strengthening Women and Youth-led Approaches to Reconciliation and Conflict Prevention", co-supported the distribution of seeds in different locations throughout South Kordofan. Search staff and local representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture organized…

This snapshot provides an overview of Search for Common Ground's (Search) research in South Sudan on Women, Peace, and Security over the past five years. Search for Common Ground began working in South Sudan in June 2014, using research to inform its conflict transformation programming. Search’s overall objective in South…

The Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS) project is to support increased accountability and transparency in political parties in Nigeria. The Radio Programming is part of a bigger IRI project, implemented in Sokoto, Adamawa, Ebonyi, and Bauchi states, over 11 months between January 2019 – March 2020. Project…

In 2018, after the end of a 10-year presidential term, Search played a crucial role in mitigating election-related violence and strengthening democratic and accountable processes. With funding from the Wellspring Philanthropic Fund (WPF), our initial project “Enhancing Social Dialogue and Political Engagement across Ethnic and Political lines” strengthened the participation…

Harmoni is a four-year program funded by USAID and implemented by Management Systems International (MSI) in collaboration with Love Frankie and Search for Common Ground, and in partnership with Indonesian civil society organizations (CSOs) and government agencies...

The Strengthening the Role of Women Leaders in Promoting Peace and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka strategic initiative aims to empower local women leaders to advance the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. By supporting women leaders in politics and civil society organizations (CSOs) to forge relationships and build technical skills,…

The objective of the Women in Learning and Leadership project (WILL) is to strengthen the voices of Sri Lankan women in shaping political decision-making. The project will connect women leaders with their constituents and improve communications skills, challenging harmful gender norms and stereotypes in the process. This project builds on…

In 2020, Search Sri Lanka started the ‘Young Women as Drivers of Peace: Providing 360° Support to Emerging Women Leaders’ project. The project will support emerging women leaders with mentoring and networking, as well as providing small grants for peacebuilding interventions within their communities. The program works with emerging young…