Vesna Ciprus is a UN Volunteer Gender Equality Project Officer serving with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) South Eastern and Eastern Europe Clearinghouse for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SEESAC). Her volunteer assignment focuses on integrating gender equality in security sector reforms in the Western Balkans through a regional project titled ‘Strengthening of the Regional Cooperation in Mainstreaming Gender in the Security Sector Reform in the Western Balkans’.
Beyond its globally recognized work on small arms control, UNDP SEESAC advances gender mainstreaming in security sector reform by supporting regional cooperation among the Ministries of Defence of four Western Balkans countries — Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia.
