Namibia Strategy concept paper

The Centres of Excellence (COE) project seeks to strengthen women’s participation and representation in decision-making at the local government level through mainstreaming gender in local councils. The COE concept 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 (GL) has been working with. This follow up concept seeks to ensure that key councils are identified across the region and worked with very closely in getting gender on their council’s agenda. This is taking 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 Gender Justice and Local Government Summits.

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