Kazakhstan Implementation

We commend the ongoing mechanisms set in place after the 2015 high-level review panels on peacekeeping and peacebuilding and the 15-year review of resolution 1325 (2000), which powerfully highlighted the women and peace and security agenda. Notable among these mechanisms are the Security Council’s new Informal Expert Group, the Global Acceleration Instrument for Women and Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action, the network of women and peace and security national focal points and the Peacebuilding Commission’s gender strategy.

There is a need to increase the availability of gender-disaggregated data and of reports on progress towards implementing and monitoring these commitments, to step up intense capacity-building and to formulate strong new pro-women policies and legislation.

Global processes are effective only when they become strongly rooted on the ground. Allow me to elaborate the steps taken by Kazakhstan to support global efforts.

In collaboration with the Multi-Country Office of UN-Women in Almaty, regional organizations, the Parliament and civil society, Kazakhstan has formulated its 1325 National Action Plan with a designated budget, to be adopted this December.

We will work to achieve the global target of earmarking 15 per cent of our official development assistance for women and peace and security. In 2017, we will set out monitoring frameworks with progress indicators to assess these targets.

Kazakhstan pledges its unfailing support to the women and peace and security agenda when it takes its non-permanent seat on the Security Council, and would like to see it kept as a cross-cutting priority item in the Council’s deliberations. My country can be counted on to be a strong voice on behalf of women’s protection and empowerment.