GL has successfully leveraged its work through a range of strategic alliances and partnerships, described in greater detail in our latest annual report.

These partnerships, extending from local, to national, to regional to international are best understood by the GL programmes, SADC Gender Protocol, Gender and media, Gender and governance and Gender justice. 

 

 

 

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PARTNERSHIP STRATEGY	REGIONAL PARTNERS	INTERNATIONAL LINKAGES
SADC Gender Protocol
Building a coalition of regional and national NGOs that promote gender equality	MOUs with 7 regional NGOs to lead theme clusters:	GL is a member of FEMENET which convenes the Africa caucus at the annual meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women; GL convenes the Southern Africa caucus on behalf of the Alliance; produces hard copy and online newspapers and conducts cyber dialogues. GL has applied for ECOSOC observer status; and has observer status with the World Bank/ IMF
	MOU’s with 12 national coalitions of gender NGOs e.g. BOCONGO in Botswana; the Women’s Coalition in Zimbabwe; the Gender Coordinating Network in Malawi.
	The Alliance represents the gender sector in the SADC Congress of NGOs (SADC CNGO). The Alliance also enjoys a close working relationship with the SADC Gender Unit.
Gender and Media
Direct approaches to media houses for developing gender policies; building long term institutional relations with media regulators and training institutions.	125 media houses working on gender policies in ten countries. A letter from management and report of the stage one management meeting are filed at head office before policy work proceeds.	International partners of the GMDC include the International Federation of Journalists based in Brussels; the International Media Women’s Foundation (Washington); the World Association of Christian Communicators that conducts the Global Media Monitoring Project (Toronto); University of Gothenburg Media Studies Department; Network of Indian Media Women.
	MOU’s with eight media studies departments of universities as part of the Gender and Media Diversity Centre (GMDC) that “collects, connects and collaborates” in research, curriculum development
Gender and Governance
Formalising links with local government associations gender/local government ministries; approaches through these to 100 COE municipalities	MOUs agreed or in final stages in ten countries where GL is working. Some of these cover the ten municipalities in the country that have signed up as Centres of Excellence in Gender Mainstreaming (COE’s); others have direct MOUs with GL.	Regular exchanges take place with the Inter Parliamentary Union (Geneva); International IDEAS (Stockholm); International Union of Local Authorities (IULA); the Commonwealth Association of Local Government; partners in the DANIDA Women in Africa fund and DFID Governance and Transparency Fund (GTF).
Gender Justice
Formalising links with gender and justice ministries for the GBV indicators project.	MOUs with gender ministries in Mauritius and Botswana; the Mauritius Research Council; Medical Research Council (South Africa).	MOU with the UN ECA Africa Centre for Women; member of the UN DAW Expert Group on National Action Plans to End GBV; member of the Secretary General’s Africa UNIte campaign advisory group.