district level in 2012 started paying dividends for the local appropriation of the NAP, improving collaborations between national and subnational levels.266 Some countries have merged various frameworks on peace and security to achieve better protection for women. For example, Uganda’s NAP encompasses national implementation of three critical instruments; UNSCR 1325 and UNSCR 1820 as well as the Goma Declaration on Eradicating Sexual Violence and Ending Impunity in the Great Lakes Region (Goma Declaration) in 2008. Burkina Faso implemented UNSCR 1325 and UNSCR 1820. Such approaches have benefits in improving implementation and monitoring coordination , avoiding duplication as well as optimally and effectively utilising scarce resources.267 Globally, by 2016 there were 55 NAPs with significant divergences and variations. 268 A 26 country study on implementation of NAPS carried out in 2014 showed that most countries do not adequately allocation of funds for NAP 1325 nor focus on the four UNSCR pillars and they lack monitoring frameworks. 269 Compartmentalised approaches to implementing the women, peace and security agenda cannot yield much, since gender cuts across all fields of governance. NAPs being government commitments on UNSCR 1325, they should be mainstreamed in national planning frameworks such as poverty reduction strategy papers, national development plans and action plans on peacebuilding270 as well as gender budgeting.271 266 Global Network of Women Peacebuilders ‘Implementing Locally, Inspiring Globally: Localizing UNSCR 1325 in Colombia, Nepal, the Philippines, Sierra Leone, and Uganda, October 2013, 267 Republic of Uganda ‘The Uganda Action Plan on UN Security Council Resolutions 1325 &1820 and the Goma Declaration’ 2008. 268 Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom . Available at https://www.wilpf.org/national-actionplans-localising-implementation-of-unscr-1325/ 269 CORDAID ‘Financing for the Implementation of National Action Plans on UN Security Council Resolution 1325 October’, 2014 270 Civil society advisory group to the UN on Women, Peace and Security ` Working Paper on Advancing National Action Plans, Regional Action Plans, and Twinning on Women, Peace, and Security. Available at https://www.peacewomen.org/sites/default/files/cso_advisory_group__naps_raps_and_twinning_0.pdf 271 Office of the Special Envoy on Women, Peace and Security of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission ‘Consultative Meeting of Member States and Regional Economic Communities that have Developed Action Plans on UNSCR 1325: Reviewing and Sharing Experiences Towards Enhanced Implementation and Monitoring’ December 14-15, 2015 89