women s civil society organisations monitored government activities and also contributed to strengthening capacity building for women through the provision of gendersensitive training at all levels of government including for parliamentarians the judiciary and the media ogunsanya for the most part women went back into the private sphere once peace was declared levels of sexual and genderbased violence remain high in the aftermath of conflict with little punitive action taken women remain underrepresented in governance accounting for just of members of parliament and women s groups have been unsuccessful in instituting a per cent quota for parliamentarians