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Women, Peace, and Security Committee

The Women, Peace, and Security Act of 2017 (P.L. 115-68) (WPS Act) codified the United States Government’s decades-long, sustained commitment to the principles of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda. Now, with over $150M allocated to WPS initiatives in 2023 alone, the momentum is there, promising greater investments in the next decade.

With this renewed focus on WPS, we, along with WPS lead Neelima Grover, are currently refreshing the ISOA WPS Committee and Certification Program. More to come on this soon!

Please contact Neelima (ngrover@q2impact.com) if you’d like to participate in ISOA’s WPS Committee and activities. If you have any questions about your prior WPS Certification, please contact ISOA at support@stability-operations.org.


Women, Peace and Security Key Documents

Neelima Grover

CEO and Managing Director of QED Holdings and Founder of Q2 Impact

Neelima Grover is the CEO and Managing Director of QED Holdings and Founder of Q2 Impact (formerly known as QED Group)- that has been in business for 25 years and has worked in 96 countries. She is a strategic thinker and an innovator who led QEDs success in developing data driven decision making in the field of US foreign affairs to drive results. Neelima is passionate about issues around women and girls and has been working towards translating women and gender policy into strategy and operations. She is also been an innovator and leader in building the capacity of stakeholders to to drive better implementation . She believes that as a leader her role is to be a catalyst for capacity building, and transformation.

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Neelima is focused on building partnerships, and focusing on strategic investments to achieve transformational impact. A social scientist by training, Neelima has a bold vision for exploring solutions that embody women and girls, data and technology as well as leadership development in the foreign affairs community.

Neelima has received numerous awards and recognition in her professional career from organizations including News India, Entrepreneur Magazine, Brava Awards, Smart CEO, Moxie Award and has been featured in business leadership shows such as Executive Leaders Radio.

Neelima is also a member of the External Advisory Board for the Data Science & Analytics program at Georgetown University. She also serves as a Mentor for Girls in Technology.

Following Neelima’s guidance, I am going to start activating this chat!  Sharing USNORTHCOM’s WPS site, with a wealth of links and additional information on our programhttps://www.northcom.mil/WPS/
And, here is where you can learn more about USINDOPACOM’s program and the great work Sharon and her team is doing: https://www.pacom.mil/About-USINDOPACOM/Women-Peace-and-Security/
Here is an article about Sharon’s efforts with the regional gender advisor capacity building efforts: https://www.pacom.mil/Media/News/News-Article-View/Article/3495609/us-indo-pacific-command-hosts-inaugural-regional-military-gender-advisor-course/
Invisible Women, Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men: https://carolinecriadoperez.com/book/invisible-women/