SADC and Gender Protocol Campaign 2005: Background documents

This paper provides a brief overview of the findings of an audit commissioned by the SADC Gender Unit (GU) and SADC Parliamentary Forum (PF) on the provisions for gender equality in key regional and international instruments for advancing gender equality and the extent to which these have been implemented. The papers were prepared as background to the SADC Heads of State Summit in August 2005 as well as for a Roundtable Review of the SADC Declaration on Gender and Development (SDGD) being convened by SADC PF and the SADC GU in Angola this September.

Audits were done in the following areas:

• Governance: Missing the Mark? Audit of the SADC Declaration on Gender and Development – Women in Decision-Making
• Education: Audit of the SADC Declaration on Gender and Development. Education
  Economic Empowerment Audit report on the implementation of the provisions in section H (iii) of the SADC Declaration on Gender and Development
• Gender Violence: Audit of the SADC Declaration on Gender and Development. Violence against women – the addendum on the eradication of violence against women and children.
• Health: Audit of the SADC Declaration on Gender and Development. Sexual and Reproductive Health
• Information, Communication and the media: Better late than never? Audit of the SADC Declaration on Gender and Development – Gender and the media
• Institutional Mechanisms: Audit of the SADC Declaration on Gender and Development – Institutional Mechanisms

Download : Audit 2005: Overview
Download : Missing the Mark? Audit of the SADC Declaration on Gender and Development - Women in Decision-Making
Download : Audit of the SADC Declaration on Gender and Development. Education
Download : Audit report on the implementation of the provisions in section H (iii) of the SADC Declaration on Gender and Development
Download : Audit of the SADC Declaration on Gender and Development. Violence against women - the addendum on the eradication of violence against women and children.
Download : Audit of the SADC Declaration on Gender and Development. Sexual and Reproductive Health
Download : Better late than never? Audit of the SADC Declaration on Gender and Development - Gender and the media
Download : Audit of the SADC Declaration on Gender and Development - Institutional Mechanisms
Download : Audit of the SADC Declaration on Gender and Development - Women's rights - Constitutional and Legal Rights