Theme: Women, Peace, & Security

The project Strengthening the Rule of Law Framework to Support Religious Freedom in Kyrgyzstan was launched in September 2021 and is a 22-month project to improve the rule of law framework around religious freedom in Kyrgyzstan by strengthening local capacities to address violations of religious rights and improving policies and…

Context Located on the border with Syria, Wadi Khaled is one of the most impoverished and politically marginalized areas of Lebanon. For many decades, state structures were mostly absent and residents were not registered as Lebanese nationals. Most residents did not receive full citizenship rights until 1994 when the area…

The crisis in Yemen has inexorably deepened, with over 20.1 million people in immediate need of humanitarian assistance to survive. Over four million people, including two million children, continue to be internally displaced, with over 400,000 families migrating or seeking asylum to avoid living in extreme precarity. The socio-economic breakdown…

Search for Common Ground (Search) in Sudan has implemented the three year Maa Baaad Namo project (2018-2021) in collaboration with its local partners: the Badya Centre for Integrated Development Services (Badya), Um Serdiba Association for Development (Um Serdiba), Paralegal’s Association (PASS), the Human Security Initiative Organization (MAMAN), and ElSharq Centre…

This Guide for Practitioners was commissioned by Search for Common Ground (Search) in the framework of the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (UNPBF) 21-month funded project “Strengthening Young Women’s Participation in Local and National Peace Processes in South Sudan.” In South Sudan, youth are often seen as the perpetrators or victims…

This policy brief has been produced as part of the ‘Strengthening Young Women’s Participation in Local and National Peace Processes in South Sudan’ project which was a 21-month long project funded by the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (UNPBF). Between December 2019 and June 2021, Search for Common Ground (Search) worked…

From February 2020 to February 2021, with support from the Canadian Government, Search for Common Ground implemented the program Let’s Beat Ebola Together in North Kivu, DRC. In the context of the worst Ebola outbreak ever recorded in the country, the project was designed to help contain the spread of…

From December 2020 to November 2021, Search implemented, with support from the Federal Government of Germany, the program "Supporting a New Generation of Women Leaders to Advance Peace and Security in Burundi." The project was designed to empower a new generation of women leaders in the peace consolidation process, both…

This toolkit is developed to facilitate a 3-day training program on countering hate speech developed by Search for Common Ground (SFCG) Sri Lanka. The training tool kit include the training modules namely overall landscape of social media, digital advocacy, online hate speech, digital storytelling, online safety and editing tools. It…

This report presents and discusses the findings from the final external evaluation of the “Strengthening Young Women’s Participation in Local and National Peace Processes in South Sudan” project (January 2020-September 2021), which was founded by the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (UNPF) and implemented by Search for Common Ground (Search) South…