SADC Gender Protocol
The SADC Gender Protocol Campaign Programme seeks to advance gender equality by ensuring accountability by all SADC Member states and ensuring that they deliver on the 28 substantive time-bound targets to be achieved by 2015. The SADC Protocol on Gender and Development was finally adopted on 17 August 2008. The signing of the Protocol was a victory for women of the region, but it also meant the beginning of another process as the focus turned to ratification and implementation of the 28 time-bound targets.The Southern African Gender Protocol Alliance was one of the critical drivers and contributors to the success of this campaign. The Southern African Gender Protocol Alliance is a collective of over 40 national and regional gender NGOs, which has been running a campaign since 2005 for the adoption, ratification and implementation of the SADC Gender Protocol.
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Southern Africa position paper on Beijing Platform for Action
26 February 10 | (0) Comments
Regional relevance: Regional
Fifteen years later after signing of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the Southern Africa NGO caucus is disappointed that not much progress has been made in meeting commitments made. We are also greatly concerned that there is going to be no Outcome Document but a mere Declaration from governments at... [read more]
Score a Goal for Gender Equality! radio features
25 February 10 | (0) Comments
The FIFA Soccer 2010 World Cup is just around the corner, and women's voices and gender perspectives are mostly missing form the dialogue. As part of the campaign to encourage people to Score a Goal for Gender Equality, this series of radio features has been produced to get people thinking and talking about 2010... [read more]
Southern Africa Pre-Beijing Caucus report
11 February 10 | (0) Comments
Regional relevance: Regional
The Gender and Media Southern Africa Network (GEMSA) and Gender Links with support from UNIFEM convened a Southern African pre-Beijing Plus Fifteen caucus meeting from 4th - 6th February 2010. [read more]
 Roadmap to Equality: Voices and Views Radio Programmes
16 November 09 | (0) Comments
Regional relevance: Regional
As part of the campaign to popularise the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development, the Alliance produced a series of audio reports to inform people about the Protocol, encourage local action for ratification, and advocate for countries who have not signed to do so. Designed for use by presenters as discussion... [read more]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - NAMIBIA: Women in parliament likely to decline despite regional commitments
04 November 09 | (0) Comments
Regional relevance: Namibia
Date: 5 November 2009 WINDHOEK, November 4: Despite the flurry of media coverage on women in politics during the 2009 elections, Namibia may witness a decline in women’s representation in parliament from 30.8% to 25% in the 27-28 November polls, according to an election forecast by Gender Links and the Gender and... [read more]
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First woman speaker a step for equality
26 January 10 | (0) Comments
Regional relevance: Mozambique
Mozambique is continuing to see a steady stream of changes when it come to upping the gender mix in the country’s political landscape. The most recent victory was the unanimous election of Veronica Macamo, a member of the ruling Frelimo party, who made history when she became the first woman speaker of parliament... [read more]
Morality lessons from Jacob Zuma
12 January 10 | (2) Comments
Regional relevance: South Africa
Jacob Zuma has recently wed a third wife in the fifth wedding ceremony of his lifetime. (He and current Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma divorced in 1998 and Kate Mantsho Zuma committed suicide in 2000.) A fourth woman to join the presidential union is reportedly already waiting in line for upcoming... [read more]
Like HIV and AIDS, government needs to lead on gender violence
05 December 09 | (0) Comments
Regional relevance: South Africa
While President Jacob Zuma grabbled world headlines last week with his about turn on government’s HIV and AIDS policy, he has been conspicuous for his absence from the Sixteen Days of Activism that runs from 25 November (International Day of No Violence Against Women) to 10 December each year. Newspapers have been... [read more]
Celebrating care work’s unsung heroines
20 August 09 | (0) Comments
Regional relevance: South Africa
20 August 2009, Johannesburg. All August, South Africa is celebrating women’s month. This national celebration marks a historic South African event. However the significance - 20 000 women’s collective action to march to the Union Buildings in Pretoria protesting legislation tightening the apartheid... [read more]
Women still missing from top media posts
19 August 09 | (0) Comments
Regional relevance: Regional
Johannesburg, 18 August; Almost a year to the day since the adoption of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Gender and Development, the region has the first comprehensive picture of the gender make-up of the region’s media. Based on findings from 126 media houses and representing 23, 678... [read more]
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