Review of the Targets of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development in 2015

This briefing note on the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development has been prepared by civil society partners as a contribution to the critical discussions this year on the review of the Protocol in 2015, also the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs will be succeeded by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that have a specific goal on gender equality, and 35 gender indicators mainstreamed across the 169 targets. Adopted by Heads of State in 2008, the SADC Gender Protocol is a unique sub-regional instrument that took the minimum requirements of the MDGs (with only three targets and seven indicators on gender equality) and enhanced these through 28 specific targets to be achieved by 2015. The SADC Gender Protocol is a best practise one stop shop for implementing gender equality whose targets must now be reviewed as 2015 has arrived. This opens opportunities for strengthening global and regional efforts to advance gender equality in the count- down to 2030. The review also opens the door for the two SADC countries that have not yet signed the Protocol (Mauritius and Botswana) to find a way of doing so. This note should be read together with the proposed implementation framework for the post-2015 SADC Gender Protocol, aligning targets to the post- 2015 agenda; incorporating all the gender-related targets of the SDGs and showing where these can be mainstreamed into existing SADC Protocols.

Download the technical note and the implementation framework documents below.

Download : Technical note: Review of the SADC Gender Protocol
Download : Implementation Framework