Policy Brief: SADC Protocol & Agenda 2030

August 2017: The SADC Protocol on Gender and Development and Agenda 2030

In September 2015, United Nations Member States adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to
be achieved by 2030. A year earlier, in anticipation of the 2015 expiry date of the Millennium Development Goals(MDGs), Southern African gender ministers began reviewing the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development (the Protocol) in line with the SDGs, the Beijing Plus Twenty Review and Africa Agenda 2063.

The SDGs provide the most ambitious and transformative framework to date for ending poverty, reducing
inequalities, improving the lives of all global citizens and preserving and protecting the environment.

Download the SADC AGENDA 2030 Policy Brief.

Author: Gender Links