Centres of Excellence for Gender Mainstreaming

This concept paper is a follow up to the gender and local government research, strategies and Gender and GBV action plans roll-out that have been taking place from 2007 – 2010 across municipalities in the SADC region that Gender Links has been working with. This follow up concept, i.e. centres of excellence for gender mainstreaming in local government seeks to ensure that key councils are identified across the region and worked with very closely in their process of getting gender on their council’s agenda. This will take place through sustained interventions that bring together policy, implementation, capacity building through-on-the- job training, monitoring and evaluation and the annual sharing of good practices at the annual Gender Justice and Local Government Summit.

The approach builds on experience that GL has gained over several years in working with media houses on developing and implementing gender policies and action plans through a six stage processes, as well as several years collaboration with the City of Johannesburg on its gender audit, policy and gender mainstreaming programme.

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