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This brief highlights the important role of Our Secure Future’s WPS NAP Academy—co-hosted in Port of Spain in 2024—which served as a platform for peer learning, stakeholder coordination, and strategic engagement across government, civil society, and regional actors. The brief outlines key milestones, best practices, and challenges faced in designing and implementing the WPS NAP, emphasizing the importance of political will, inclusive participation, costing, and regional cooperation under the CARICOM framework. It provides recommendations for governments, civil society, and international partners to strengthen WPS policymaking, promote accountability, and ensure sustainable implementation. The brief also identifies opportunities to leverage the NAP Academy model to foster regional collaboration and integrate WPS approaches into peace and security policies across Latin America and the Caribbean.
Author(s)/editor(s): This brief was drafted by Keri Zolman from OSF and Bautista Logioco and Lina Diaz from UN Women and received technical inputs from Sahana Dharmapuri and Luke Englebert from OSF, and from Delfina Garcia Hamilton and Jenille Maraj from UN Women. It was peer reviewed by Maria Veronica Espinel and copyedited by Guadalupe Del Carmen Valdés Morales, with design and layout by Teresa Lopez, all from UN Women.
