The Untapped Potential of Women in Engendering Post-Conflict Re-Construction: Case Study: Three Sub-Counties in Alebtong District, Northern Uganda.

Abstract

This study was an assessment of the role women play in post-conflict re-construction in Northern Uganda with reference to three Sub Counties in Alebtong District. The study found out whether women play a role in enhancing post-conflict re-construction, post-conflict governance and post-conflict security in Northern Uganda, Alebtong District. The study was guided by a cross-sectional research design using both Qualitative and quantitative approaches. The study was cross-sectional because it focused on a cross-section of women and their roles / activities in Alebtong District. The study was largely qualitative in order to come up with conclusions on variables that cannot be measured while quantitative techniques helped in establishing values attached to numerical variables. The results indicated that women in Alebtong District had participated in development activities which in turn lead to enhancement of post- conflict re-construction in Northern Uganda. In addition, there was a significant relationship between Women Participation in development activities and enhancing of post-conflict security in Northern Uganda, Alebtong District. It was recommended that women should be recruited and trained for decision-making positions across the public and private sectors, but crucially in senior positions relating to the protection and physical security of citizens. Besides, accountability mechanisms for ensuring women’s descriptive representation in post-conflict governance should be bolstered. Governments should compile data on the presence/number of women and men (and their positions) in a census of women’s participation in post-conflict governance, and interventions should be planned and implemented where women’s presence is below one-third. Women’s substantive representation in post-conflict governance should be improved by providing direct technical and capacity-building support to women’s involvement “at the table” in the peace building processes.

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