In support of the UN-led Global Open Day for 1325 events, the Regional Women’s Lobby decided to organize a set of complementary meetings in two of the countries where the Lobby is active: Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. As neither of these countries has a DPKO mission the UN team leading the Global Open Day initiative was not planning on promoting the event in these locations. RWL decided to use this space to organize its own meetings, complementary to the Global Open Day, with the UN RC and other stakeholders to brief them and discuss 1325 implementation issues. Both of these countries has a specific set of contextual factors influencing UNSCR 1325 implementation and this background will be discussed below.