PronetNorth has engaged the people of Dorimon, a community in the Wa West District towards building peace through fostering inclusive and participatory decision-making processes.
The initiative formed part of the UNFPA Peace Building Fund project implementation in some border communities to prevent conflict in the region. Over a hundred people in the Dorimon community who comprised traditional, religious and opinion leaders, women and youth attended the forum.
Addressing the people at the forum, Mr Valentine Danuor, the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer at PronetNorth, said the project had become necessary due to the influx of asylum seekers in the region from neighbouring countries in the Sahel including Burkina Faso and Niger that were affected by insurgences and other uprisings.
“The Dorimon area here is very close to Burkina Faso, the entire Wa West is very close to Burkina Faso, they shared borders and we are trying to see how best we can put some preventive mechanisms instead of waiting for the conflict to occur, we want to prevent the conflict from occurring.
"One of the strategies we are using is looking at gender disparities because when conflicts occur we know that they are gender issues associated with conflict especially where women are most affected, children are most affected and the youth are most affected because they most likely would go into to the battlefield, the front line,” Mr Danuor stated.
He said the project engaged the traditional and religious authorities for them to appreciate the need to include the youth and women in the decision-making.
Naa Sidiqi A. Sanga, the Chief of Dontanga in the Dorimon Traditional Area, thanked PronetNorth for the project. He says the project would contribute to sustaining the peace in the community.
Madam Mariama Daar, a resident, expressed hope that such engagements would help reduce gender segregation in decision-making and other cultural and social norms against women.
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