Welcome to the 23nd edition of the Roadmap to Equality! Tracking progress towards the implementation and ratification of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development.
Seychelles is set to become the first SADC country to develop a national gender policy that will be closely aligned to the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development targets to be achieved by 2015.
Welcome to the 22nd edition of the Roadmap to Equality! Tracking progress towards the implementation and ratification of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development.
As the curtain comes down on the Seventeen United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP 17) on climate change, while the developed countries may refuse to commit to the second period of the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012,
A number of Southern African organisations will this year focus the Sixteen Days of Activism against Gender Violence campaign on the theme: From peace in the home to peace in the world; end gender violence by 2015! This is in line with the key provisions of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development that includes an overarching target of reducing by half current levels of gender based violence by 2015.
A major highlight this period is thaton 31 August South Africa became the ninth country to ratify the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development. This meansthe instrument will now go into full force because nine out of the 13 signatories (two thirds)have now ratified the Protocol.
Welcome to the 19th edition of Roadmap to Equality! tracking progress towards the implementation and ratification of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development.
August, which coincides with women’s month in South Africa,and the SADC Heads of State Summit for the region, was a busy month for gender activists.
Welcome to the 16 Days Special Edition of the Roadmap to Equality. Yesterday marked the half way point of the campaign. The newsletter contains highlights from different countries.
Welcome to the 18th edition of Roadmap to Equality! tracking progress towards the implementation and ratification of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development. My name is Loveness Jambaya Nyakujarah and I am now the editor of this e-newsletter. It is good to be back as Manager of the Southern Africa Gender Protocol Alliance after my recent maternity leave. I had a bouncing baby girl! Viva to more women power!
Welcome to the 17th edition of Roadmap to Equality! tracking progress toward the ratification and implementation and of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development.
The most exciting gender achievement this month may very well be the legalisation of a 30% quota for women’s representation in Mauritius. After years of lobbying for greater representation in a country with just 6.4% women in local government,
Welcome to the 16th edition of Roadmap to Equality! tracking progress toward the implementation and ratification of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development. In South Africa the countdown to the local government elections on 18 May is heating up, with all political leaders calling for people to come out in their numbers and exercise their democratic right to vote.
Welcome to the 15th edition of Roadmap to Equality, keeping you posted on regional news and developments in the count down to the 2015 deadline to reach the targets of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development. A key highlight this period is that the Alliance has officially been invited by the SADC CNGO to represent the gender sector within the broader umbrella network of SADC NGOs.
Welcome to the 14th edition of Roadmap to Equality: keeping you updated on regional news and developments. We would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a healthy, joyous and prosperous 2011. As we begin 2011, we are encouraged by news that nine SADC countries have ratified with the SADC Secretariat.
Welcome to the 13th edition of Roadmap to Equality! Keeping you updated on regional developments. In November the SADC Gender Protocol Alliance was appointed to the gender cluster of the SADC Council of Non Governmental Organisations (SADC-CNGO) after an engagement process that started in August at the 6th Civil Society Forum convened by SADC-CNGO.