Measuring Psychosocial Wellbeing in Democratic Republic of Congo
Since it began operating in the 1990s in northern Uganda, the LRA has inflicted enormous suffering on millions of civilians in several countries of the Great Lakes and Central African regions. In the 1990s and early 2000s, suc¬cessive Ugandan Peopl...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/04/20143749/measuring-psychosocial-wellbeing-democratic-republic-congo-report-pilot-study http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20059 |
| Summary: | Since it began operating in the 1990s in
northern Uganda, the LRA has inflicted enormous suffering on
millions of civilians in several countries of the Great
Lakes and Central African regions. In the 1990s and early
2000s, suc¬cessive Ugandan People s Defense Force (UPDF)
operations in northern Uganda largely drove the LRA into the
DRC and what is now South Sudan, and after 2008, into the
CAR. Armed conflict negatively affects women and men in
different ways and results in gender-specific dis¬advantages
which are not always recognized or ad¬dressed in mainstream
conflict and reconstruction programs and policies. The
Learning on Gender and Conflict in Africa Program (LOGiCA)
aims to increase gender-specific programming in
post-conflict Sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on
de¬mobilization and reintegration (D&R) in the Great
Lakes region (GLR), and gender specific issues arising from
armed conflict including psy¬chosocial aspects. |
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