political and practical support to ensure that women including womens civil society organisations are included in peace processes is a crucial entry point to make sure that the security needs of women men boys and girls are taken into consideration it is therefore critical that the negotiationmediation teams draw on gender expertise from the outset of a peace process briefings on gender issues can be provided to negotiatingmediation teams and others with decisionmaking power civil society organisations including womens organisations should also be included in track two processes and can play an important role in monitoring the implementation of peace agreements