Roadmap to Equality, Issue 28, November 2012
Date: November 27, 2012
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Welcome to the 28th edition of the Roadmap to Equality! Tracking progress towards the implementation and ratification of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development.
Partners in Southern Africa will hold the 16 Days of Activism against gender violence campaign under the banner À“ Peace begins at home. This will link local government councils, media practitioners, media institutions, gender and media networks, gender NGOs and in some cases national government officials through various activities lined up during the campaign period…. 
GL invites all stakeholders from across SADC and the globe to join cyber dialogues À“ real time online moderated chats on thematic areas around gender-based violence. These will run every weekday from 26 November À“ 10 December 2012 from 13h00 to 14h00 in English, French and Portuguese and local languages. … 
There is rising anxiety as the clock clicks louder in the count down to 2015 the deadline for meeting the 28 targets of the SADC Gender Protocol. For every step forward, activists counted one-step backwards in the collection of data from the fifteen countries that informed the 2012 Southern Africa Gender Protocol Barometer…. 
Swaziland and Zambia are the latest SADC countries to join the process of costing implementation of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development. By the end of the process, both countries will have costed gender action plans aligned to the SADC Gender Protocol’s 28 targets. … 
Swaziland and Zambia became the latest countries to ratify the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development in September and October respectively. This happened on the backdrop of the costing implementation of the SADC Gender Protocol initiatives taking place in both countries…. 
As the Democratic Alliance (DA) will be holding the Federal Congress from the 23rd to the 25th November 2012; the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) will be watching closely regarding the placing of women in key decision making positions…. 
Sports in Canada is about to undergo a big transition, if the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) has anything to say about it. The group released a report Oct 23 that makes numerous ground breaking recommendations on gender expression and identity…. 
The Southern Africa Gender Protocol Alliance held its annual steering committee meeting from 14 – 15 August to reflect on the year gone by and strategise for the future. As per tradition, the Alliance used the opportunity to take stock of SADC countries’ progress towards achieving the 28 targets in the SADC Protocol… 
The Alliance launched the key findings of 2012 SADC Gender Protocol Barometer in Maputo, ahead of the Summit at an event attend by over 130 local partners. Alliance partners will use this as an advocacy tool to apply pressure on the 13 governments that have signed to deliver on commitments made. … 
In its role as the regional gender focal point, the Southern Africa Protocol Alliance participated in the Annual Civil Society Forum hosted by the SADC CNGO represented by the Secretariat, Think Tank and the national focal point for the host country, Forum Mulher with the aim of ensuring that gender is mainstreamed in all discussions. … 
The new Mozambique Alliance focal network held a meeting bringing together potential Gender NGOs who will constitute the local Alliance Network on 9 August 2012. A mapping exercise of the potential theme cluster leaders and gender champions for the 28 targets took place…. 
Building on the campaign begun for an Addendum to the SADC Gender Protocol on Gender and Climate Change the Alliance network undertook to publicise the campaign with the rest of civil society groupings during the Civil Society Forum. … 
South Africa Women in Dialogue (SAWID) has officially taken on the role of Alliance focal network. The Secretariat made the announcement after the SAWID National Council approved the proposal during its membership meeting… 
The Southern Africa Gender Protocol Alliance working with local councils will be administering attitudes, knowledge and citizen score cards during the 16 Days campaign as part of monitoring citizen engagement with the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development as well as progress towards shifting gender attitudes…. 
According to the 2012 SADC Gender Protocol Barometer, most SADC Constitutions enshrine non-discrimination generally as well as non-discrimination based on sex. Nine SADC constitutions provide for the promotion of women and seven have other provisions that relate to gender equality…. 
Lawmakers in Swaziland recently declared illegal the practice of men marrying underage girls – which has been an accepted social norm for centuries. This has however been linked to the spread of HIV in recent years…. 
The South African cabinet in August approved the Women Empowerment and Gender Equality Draft Bill for publication in the Government Gazette for public comment.The draft law is aimed at enforcing compliance in both the government and the private sector in matters of gender mainstreaming and equality…. 
Harsh deterrence methods, including police brutality and detainment, have done little to kill of the spirit of women’s rights groups in Zimbabwe. Recently, their determination has started to pay dividends…. 
The 2012 SADC Gender Protocol Barometer shows that, at 24% SADC comes second to Nordic countries (42%) in a global comparison of women in political decision-making positions…. 
Gender Links (GL) is calling on the Government of Swaziland to institute a legislated quota to increase the representation of women in all areas of politics and decision-making following the just-ended urban local elections… 
The 2012 SADC Barometer shows that education is generally a success story for gender equality in the region. However, the difference between the empirical score and citizen perception score underlines many qualitative challenges such as gender biases in curriculum and GBV in schools. … 
Adolescent girls in Zambia face frequent sexual violence and harassment at school, researchers from Cornell Law School’s Avon Global Centre for Women and Justice, the Cornell International Human Rights Clinic, and Women and Law in Southern Africa-Zambia said in a report released early this October. … 
The problems of teenage pregnancy arise from individual, family and societal factors, including, but not limited to, culture, religion, moral values and beliefs, education and economic circumstances, and a lack of support structures…. 
The 2012 SADC Gender Protocol Barometer notes that Climate change in Southern Africa is exacting a heavy toll through droughts and floods playing havoc with livelihoods, especially of the poorest, the majority of whom are women and children…. 
Gender activists issued a strong call for an Addendum on Gender and Climate Change to Heads of States of Southern African Development Community (SADC) meeting in Maputo, Mozambique on Saturday this week…. 
Alcohol abuse and transactional sex because of economic hardships are believed to be some of the factors that have led to an increase of gender based violence. … 
Zambia becomes the latest SADC country to roll out the GBV Indicators project to measure extent, response, support and prevention of GBV in the country. Gender Links is working closely with the Ministry of Gender and Child Development to roll out the project…. 
The regional average Southern Africa Gender and Development Index (SGDI) score for health is 62%, which is on par with the Citizen Score Card (CSC) score. There is no movement since last year on the SGDI. … 
Officially illegal, but by no means uncommon, abortion is a controversial topic in Malawi. Currently, abortion is outlawed except in cases where pregnancy threatens the life of the mother…. 
The challenges of addressing misconceptions on condom use are slowly being addressed by different stakeholders that have taken a leading role in fighting HIV and AIDS.The pandemic continues to pose a serious threat to national development…. 
Women are still not adequately represented in the peace and security sectors of the region. Getting data for this sector remain a challenge as the statistics remain shrouded in secrecy and are generally not gender disaggregated…. 
The time is now. Madagascar must have a relevant draft for the implementation of the UNSCR 1325 on Gender, Peace and Security, because it is crucial to apply basic laws on Human Rights that protect women and girls before and after conflicts…. 
New information will soon be available on progress on the proportion of female versus male sources in news content as well as where women are sitting in terms of decision making positions in the media…. 
Sexist stereotypes, humiliating photographs of women and male by lines dominate the front pages of British newspapers, according to research carried out by the industry body Women in Journalism (WiJ)…. 
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