Gender in the 2010 Tanzania elections

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the gender, elections and media project run by Gender Links (GL), in Tanzania during the October 2010 elections that witnessed an increase in women’s representation in parliament from 30% to 36%. But women constituted a mere 12% of news sources, compared to the general average of 21% in the 2010 Gender and Media Progress Study (GMPS).

The project forms part of a region-wide campaign to increase women’s political representation and participation in line with the 2008 Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Gender and Development that aims to achieve gender parity in all areas of decision-making by 2015. This includes the media and governance.

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