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South West Region – Buea General Meeting 2019

South West Region –Buea General Meeting

Objectives

  • Evaluate Cawopem Buea five Months Activities
  • Project and Develop A Plan Of Action For 2020

CANDLE LIGHT BUEA CANDLE LIGHT DOUALA

CANDLE LIGHT YAOUNDE

The meeting started at 1. p.m with two Christmas Carole to grace the occasion. In an opening speech the National Coordinator of CAWOPEM Mrs. Dorothy Forsac expressed her joy for the meeting and also enlighten the members on the purpose of CAWOPEM. The meeting continued with proposing of the strategic plan of action for the year 2020 which were as follows;

  • Bring together grassroots women to join CAWOPEM using focal point from divisional, sub-divisional and district level.
  • Meeting should be held twice a year
  • Advocacy meetings should be organized
  • Monthly media sensitization of peace by CAWOPEM through the
  • Radio and TV
  • 10 days social media sensitization on silencing the guns
  • A peace match on silencing the guns should be done in January

The meeting ended with a poem on peace by Olive which graced the occasion and a closing remark from the South West Regional chair, who emphasized that every voice matter and that every woman’s voice is peace. The meeting ended with a picture session and a family meal.

 

Candle Light Vigil In Memory of the Victims in the Restive Regions of Cameroon 2019

Objectives

  • Mobilize Women’s Voice for the Promotion of peace in Cameroon.
  • To remember all those who lost their life as a result of Arm Conflicts in Cameroon.

Women and children have been especially targeted during these crises, we have had cases of baby Martha who was shot and killed around Muyuka, Florence Ayafor killed and desecrated in Pinyin, civilians shot and killed, women and their babies shot and killed in the Extreme Northern Region of Cameroon. It is for this reason that the Cameroon Women’s Peace Movement organized a candle light Vigil in 3 regions of Cameroon in remembrance of all those who had died in Cameroon as a result of Armed conflicts. Over 200 women within the 3 regions of Cameroon lighted their candles bearing in mind these words ‘’ a candle does not lose its light, by lighting other candles’’ these candles were lit in memory of all those who had fallen due to armed conflicts.

 

Cameroon National Dialogue Pre-Consultation Meeting With the Prime Minister, Head of Government for Cameroon 2019

Objectives

  • Bring lasting solutions to solve the ongoing crisis within Cameroon.
  • Propose a Gender sensitive solution to the different conflicts within Cameroon

During a solemn address to the nation on September 10, 2019, President Paul Biya convened a Major National Dialogue (MND). The dialogue to be piloted by the Prime Minister and Head of Government of Cameroon, Chief Joseph Dion Ngute articulates around themes that will answer the concerns of residents in the South-West and North-West Regions.

It will also bring answers to issues like bilingualism, cultural diversity, social harmony, reconstruction and development of Regions affected by the sociopolitical crisis, the education and legal systems, decentralization and local development. Issues like the return of refugees and displaced persons, demobilization and reintegration of ex-combatants as well as the diaspora’s role in the country’s development.

A dialogue pre-consultation assembly saw an influx of proposals and strategies especially from women groups such as the “Cameroon Women’s Peace Movement (CAWOPEM), clamoring inter alia for gender balance at all the levels of the deliberations. These proposals notwithstanding, only 15 (18%) of all the 120 members of the 8 commissions are women, and only one youth is represented.

A percentage that completely undermines all instruments and commitments signed by Cameroon-UNSCR 1325, SDGs, AU Aspiration 2063 and others.

This under representation also corroborates existing gender discrepancies in Cameroon in political, leadership, economic and social spheres.

CAWOPEM submitted a statement to the PM and strategies on: ceasefire, continuation of dialogue and dialogue code of conduct. We proposed a dialogue continuation and ceasefire strategy, to reflect the gender, age, ethnicity, geographical origin, education and other socio-cultural diversities that make up the realities of Cameroon

    

National Dialogue Pre-Consultation Meeting with the Prime Minister Head of Government

First Strategic Meeting of CAWOPEM 2019

First Strategic Meeting of CAWOPEM

Objectives

  1. Develop a road map for CAWOPEM
  2. Develop a 6 month plan of Actions
  3. To better strategies on the vision and work of CAWOPEM, the Chairs and Co-Chairs met for their first time in Yaounde to develop a 6 months road map and plan of action for CAWOPEM

 

The Meeting organized in Yaoundé saw the active participation of all chairs. Out of the different resolutions, a general assembly was to be organize after 6 months of operation, the Structure was to obtain a legal character as a Network or an Association, Each region was to have a regional coordinator and assistant, following the National plan of action each region was to appropriate the vision at the local level to sort its local realities and context.