• Involving the private sector in peacebuilding activities through effective partnerships is important. The private sector should be included in economic reconstruction projects to improve livelihoods, entrepreneurship and skills building. The involvement of men and women in such programmes should be encouraged by governments and CSOs. • Private sectors in some countries have shown initiative in integrating ex combatants in enterprises that provide opportunities for apprenticeship, skills building and vocational work. APRM should amplify the value returns of such good practices and encourage countries to provide spaces for corporations to build on such good practices. • Corporations practice corporate social responsibility as a form of good citizenship that is recommended by APRM. Countries should provide corporations with development priorities to guide their philanthropy and include projects that speak to social sectors of concern to women and men. Socio-Economic Development • APRM should encourage countries to implement and monitor SDG 5 and 16 to fully realise women’s equal rights to economic resources, access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, as well as inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws. • Laws that take into account women’s transformed gender roles as a result of conflict should be enacted to protect the rights of widows and female headed households in the area of land, property and succession rights. • The APRM reviews focus on the need to address climate change as an overarching issue. Climate change multiplies risks for women, since they interact more with nature for food, water and clothing. Women’s adaptative capacities should be enhanced through natural resource governance, including women’s increased leadership of and participation in areas like water governance. 10