Myanmar

Our work in Myanmar

Following decades of violent conflict, Myanmar (Burma) is undergoing significant political and economic reform including a fragile peace process. Despite positive steps including ceasefire agreements and a national dialogue process, armed conflict, insecurity and injustice continues to affect communities across the country.

Our work

Saferworld has operated in Myanmar since 2012 and opened an office in 2015. We work with civil society partners to improve community security and we advocate for conflict-sensitive and gender-sensitive reform in security and justice governance. We also work with civil society organisations to promote community-led approaches to conflict sensitivity that empower communities to challenge international development partners and foreign investors to be more responsive to community needs.

In Myanmar we are working on:

Inclusive approaches to security and justice reform – to create safer communities we work with civil society partners on community security and security and justice governance.

Gender – we conduct research on the impact of insecurity, injustice and conflict on gender dynamics, and we address gender norms that perpetuate violence.

Promoting conflict sensitive approaches – we promote community-led approaches to conflict sensitivity that aim to make development and investment responsive to community needs.