As global and local consultations on an education and training framework post-2015 gain momentum, it is emerging that the current framework has fallen short of closing the gender inequality gap. Education and training provides a foundation for the attainment of other provisions such as gender parity in decision-making and women’s full enjoyment of their sexual and reproductive health rights.
Gender equality and women’s rights are guaranteed in most Southern African constitutions but these do not result in substantive equality for women. Among other struggles, women remain unequal, under-represented at all levels of decision-making and experience high levels of gender based violence (GBV). These conditions obstruct women from realising their human rights.
The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) has urged civil society organisations to utilise new media technologies to promote and advance development initiatives. MISA made the call at the ongoing SADC Civil Society Forum in Harare, where participants discussed the challenges and emerging issues in the media landscape across the region.
After Zimbabwe Minister of Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development, Oppah Muchinguri, launched the 2014 SADC Gender Protocol Barometer on the eve of the 10th Southern African Civil Society Forum on Sunday, Gender Links and the Southern Africa Protocol Alliance met with Minister Muchinguri.
Oppah Muchinguri, Zimbabwe’s Minister of Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development spoke yesterday at the 10th SADC Civil Society Forum and the launch of the 2014 SADC Gender Protocol Barometer, which measures progress to achieving the SADC Gender Protocol.
This newsletter is a compilation of stories that cover the parallel sessions and events ahead of the SADC Heads of State Summit, which saw all SADC governments convene in Lilongwe, Malawi. These stories were amongst a number of pieces published in an eight page supplement, carried by the Nation Publications newspaper on Saturday 17 August, the first day of the Summit.
Welcome to the 29th edition of the Roadmap to Equality! Tracking progress towards the implementation and ratification of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development.
The SADC Protocol on Gender and Development is in full force after South Africa became ninth country to deposit their ratification instruments with the SADC in late November.
On the dawn of the 16 Days campaign, a key question for all involved in prevention campaigns is whether these are making a difference. The GBV indicators research Botswana, Mauritius and four provinces of South Africa found that less than half of the women and men in all the sites except Gauteng knew of the Sixteen Days of Activism Campaign.
Welcome to the 27th edition of the Roadmap to Equality! Tracking progress towards the implementation and ratification of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development.
The election of South Africa Home Affairs Minister Dr Nkosazana Dhlamini-Zuma’s as African Union (AU) commission chair, the most powerful position in the grouping, is cause for celebration as August a critical month on the gender equality agenda approaches.
Welcome to the 26th edition of the Roadmap to Equality!Tracking progress towards the implementation and ratification of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development. The Southern Africa Gender Protocol notes with concern developments in Lesotho around the just ended national elections.SADC Member States seem to be moving one-step forward and two steps back in the area of governance in spite of advocacy by civil society, within government and political parties.
As March – International Women’s Month – ends, there is cause for celebration and concern.
SADC witnessed the swearing in of the first female president, Joyce Banda in Malawi after the death of President Binguwa Mutharika. She is the second female president in Africa after Liberian president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.
Welcome to the 24th edition of the Roadmap to Equality! – tracking progress towards the implementation and ratification of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development.
It is not just SADC but the world over that is abuzz with activities as NGOs, government, development partners and lately the corporate sector commemorate International Women’s Day on 8 March.