Panama: Improving citizens' security in Panama -- contributing to the social construction of peace
JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS
Total Budget $4,000,000
Delivery Rate
Main Achievements
- Assessment including a gender perspective to determine the effectiveness of the regulations and incarceration procedures applied to juvenile offenders.
- Creation of an Advisory Council for the Observatory on Citizen Security made up of important and respected members of Panamanian society.
- Strengthening and reorganization of networks against domestic violence, applying the Corregimiento de Sona model in the Arraijan, Chorrera, and San Miguelito districts.
This UN Joint Programme approaches the insecurity problem in Panama as a peacebuilding and conflict prevention challenge. It aims at contributing to the social prevention of violence and crime; the strengthening of institutional mechanisms and policies in the security sector; and the coordination of relevant stakeholders (government organisations, civil society, UN agencies and other international cooperation partners) in the security and justice sectors, Both, human rights and gender perspectives are integrated into the programme, which provides for the inclusion and participation of vulnerable groups, and has an emphasis on young people.
The proposal supports the Citizen Security Programme (in Spanish, PROSI - Programa de Seguridad Ciudadana) being implemented by the Ministry of Government and Justice, in coordination with the Ministries of Education, Social Development and Economy and the Ministry of Finance, among other institutions, with the objective of improving citizen security in a state governed by the rule of law, favoring the fulfilment of MDGs.