PCRD activities

Key activities include:

1. Advising and supporting affected African countries to adapt and implement the AU policy on PCRD at national level.
2. Assisting SADC to develop a regional implementation framework for PCRD.
3. Unpacking the relationship between PCRD and multi-dimensional peace support operations (e.g. the African Standby Force civilian dimension).
4. Supporting the development of a database of African experts on PCRD.
5. Assisting the AU to develop a strategy for civil society participation in PCRD processes.
6. Assisting in the development of an AU volunteer programme.
 

Past activities and achievements:

Pax Africa provided support to the Peace and Security Department of the AU Commission, which led to the adoption of the policy on post-conflict reconstruction and development (PCRD) by the Executive Council at the AU Summit in Banjul, Gambia in June 2006.
Support to the AU took the following forms:

1. Co-hosted and facilitated the 4th Brainstorming Retreat of the AU Peace and Security Council and other Member States’ Permanent Representatives on PCRD in Durban, South Africa on 4-5 September 2005.
2. Participated in and facilitated the Continental Experts meeting on PCRD, on 6-7 February 2006. This meeting deliberated on all of the principles, constitutive elements and mechanism for the implementation of an AU PCRD policy.
3. Participated in Tokyo International Conference on Africa’s Development (TICAD) Meeting on PCRD, in February 2006. This meeting focused on three areas, namely: Security, Political Governance & Transition, Community Reconstruction and Socio-Economic Development.
4. Participated in and served as a resource person at the AU-CSO meeting on 5-7 April 2006 that reviewed and inputted into the draft Policy Framework on PCRD.
5. Participated and facilitated AU-CSOs meeting and deliberation on their role in PCRD (April 2006).
6. Facilitated Continental Governmental Experts meeting on PCRD on 8-9 June 2006. This meeting considered the draft policy document and made recommendations.
7. Expert facilitation of meeting of the UN-Affiliated University for Peace on PCRD, in June 2006. This meeting focused on, and jumpstarted the roll-out of one of the critical elements of PCRD.
8. Led drafting team that finalised draft policy framework, in line with recommendations coming out of the governmental experts meeting. (June 2006).