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Costing of the Seychelles national gender action plan is at an advanced stage following a workshop held from 11 – 12 April 2012. Gender Links is providing technical assistance to the country process that is led by the Gender Secretariat.
The action plan provides a framework for the operationalisation of the national gender policy currently in its final stages of development. What is unique is that it is the first country to develop a gender action plan aligned to the SADC Gender Protocol 28 targets.
Following the success of a model developed by Gender Links that brought key elements of the SADC GenderProtocol campaignthe SADC Gender Unit with work with the organisation and strategic partners to cascade the model to other SADC countries. The target is to work with six countries between June and December 2012.
The key elements include:
– Updating national gender policies to align to the SADC Gender Protocol
– Developing gender action plans that are aligned to the SADC Gender Unit regional strategy and action plan developed in October 2011 and the Protocol
– Gender mainstreaming capacity building for line ministries
– Using the SADC Gender Protocol Barometer for baseline data and to set benchmarks
– Gender responsive budget capacity building
– Costing of the gender action plans
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