Promotion of world peace and gender issues are top priorities on the international security agenda, but also of the Republic of Moldova. The Security and Intelligence Service, along with other state bodies, considers these issues as key ones for ensuring social security and maximizing the use of human potential.
It should be noted that the SIS is close to putting into practice the principle of gender parity – women account for 45% of the staff.
At the same time, the SIS is fully committed to the implementation of the national agenda in this field, including the National Action Plan for the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, launching the initiative of “Gender Perspective in Security Sector” training course.
In this regard, a group of about 40 employees of the Security and Intelligence Service took for a month a training course covering topics and methodologies for promoting world peace, using specific tools of the gender perspective.
The author and trainer of the course, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Natalia ALBU considers that integration of the gender perspective contributes to the operational efficiency of the security sector. Also, Ms. ALBU believes that gender perspective is a tool for easing the creation of representative security institutions and for strengthening democratic control over them.
