Articles about Southern Africa Gender Protocol Alliance
Editorial Note
13 April 12
Welcome to the 25th edition of the Roadmap to Equality! Tracking progress towards the implementation and ratification of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development. As March - International Women's Month - ends, there is cause for celebration and concern.
SADC witnessed the swearing in of the first female... [read more]
Regional: SADC-CNGO HOS Summit preparatory meeting
13 April 12
Members of the Southern Africa Development Community Council of Non-Governmental Organizations (SADC-CNGO) have asked for the Alliance's contribution to the "SADC We Want' document that will be tabled at the 8th Civil Society Forum this July in Maputo. [read more]
Botswana: Pressure mounts for Botswana to sign the SADC Gender Protocol
10 April 12
Pressure mounts on Botswana to sign the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development as gender activists in the country met on 14 March to deliberate on a national strategy to get the government to adopt the legal instrument before the 2013 parliamentary elections. [read more]
Regional: SADC Conference on gender based violence
10 April 12
The SADC Secretariat's Gender Unit hosted a gender based violence conference from 20 -22 March draw up a regional strategy and action plan to address the scourge. Over 50 participants attended including development partners such as UN Women, UNDP; with two representatives from government and one representative from... [read more]
Draft Strategy Paper: Signing of the SADC Gender Protocol
10 April 12
Regional relevance: Botswana
This paper sets out a rationale for Botswana signing the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development. It is based on a consultative meeting co-convened by BOCONGO, as the national focal network of the Southern Africa Gender Protocol Alliance and Gender Links as the overall coordinator of the Alliance. The meeting took... [read more]
Malawi: Country launches 2011 SADC Gender Barometer
05 April 12
Regional relevance: Malawi
The government of Malawi has applauded the Southern Africa Gender Protocol Alliance for its commendable efforts in producing the annual SADC Gender Barometer, an important measuring tool of the 28 targets of the SADC Gender Protocol. [read more]
Southern Africa @ CSW
12 March 12
Southern Africa gender advocates and rural women alike made their mark at the just ended Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) as witness by their robust contributions made in formal panels and during dialogues at the sessions they attended.
The Southern Africa Gender Protocol Alliance which was represented by... [read more]
Regional: SADC GU to host a regional gender based violence conference
12 March 12
The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Gender Unit will host a regional conference on gender based violence to reflect on magnitude of the scourge which seems to be on the increase in Southern Africa. This will take place from 23 - 25 March 2012 in Johannesburg.
The conference will facilitate... [read more]
Mozambique: Cyclone Giovanni ravages Mozambique
11 March 12
Cyclone Giovanna has so far killed 23 in Madagascar according to media reports before taking aim at Mozambique. Some 65 people were injured and about 11,000 people left homeless after Cyclone Giovanna ravaged the country's eastern seaboard. [read more]
South Africa: Push for 5050 legislated quotas
11 March 12
The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) and the National Democratic Institute will on 8 March International Women's Day, hold a round-table discussion to strategise on how to push forward the campaign for 5050 legislated quotas in the constitution and electoral laws. The initiative aims to guard the gains made in... [read more]
