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This report provides a comprehensive overview of the gender, elections and media project run by Gender Links (GL), in partnership with the Gender and Media Southern Africa Network (GEMSA) in Namibia during the November 2009 elections.
The project forms part of a region-wide campaign to increase women's political representation and participation in line with the 2008 Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Gender and Development that aims to achieve gender parity in all areas of decision-making by 2015.
GL conceptualised the project, including tracking countries conducting elections and organising training, while GEMSA conducted the media monitoring. The project covers all the SADC countries having elections at national, provincial and local level between 2009 and 2011. These include: South Africa, Malawi, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Mauritius, Tanzania and Lesotho.
The November 2009 national elections in Namibia witnessed a backslide as women's representation in parliament dropped from 30.8 to 24.4%. This is despite the fact that the country has signed and ratified the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Gender and Development, which sets a target of 50% for women's representation in parliament by 2015. The country is left with one national election (2014) before 2015.
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