Women’s month 2015
Date: August 28, 2015
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This Women’s month, August 2015, we focus on issues from the SADC Protocol@work Barometer.
| DAY | Theme and article of the day | GREEN LIGHTS | RED LIGHTS | Barometer 2015 |
| Monday 17 August |
Implementation |
The SADC Gender Ministers have agreed to review the SADC Gender Protocol and to add a Monitoring, Evaluation and Results Framework. | Resources and capacity for gender ministries remain weak. | Chapter 11. Implementation |
| Tuesday 18 August |
Media Southern Africa: Gender equality still a far cry in the media |
Over 100 media houses in SADC are now Centres of Excellence for Gender in the Media. | Women constitute only one in five of the views and voices heard and read in the media. | Chapter 9: Media, information and communication |
| Wednesday 19 August |
Governance Southern Africa: Women still missing from the corridors of power |
Women in SADC make up 27% of members of parliament. This is higher than the global average of 22%. | No SADC country has reached the 50% target of women’s representation in parliament, cabinet or local government. | Chapter 2: Governance |
| Thursday 20 August |
Education Southern Africa: Numbers do not tell the full story about education |
Most SADC countries now have equal numbers of boys and girls at secondary and primary school. | Many young women do not complete their education because of gender violence and teenage pregnancies. | Chapter 3: Education and training |
| Friday 21 August |
Gender Based Violence Southern Africa: Ending gender violence key to the Post 2015 agenda |
All 15 SADC countries now have laws and plans to end gender violence. | At least one third of all women in SADC have experienced gender violence in their life time. | Chapter 5: Gender based violence |
| Monday 24 August |
Economic Justice Southern Africa: Wanted – gender equality in grand industrialisation plans |
All SADC countries make legal provision for maternity leave. | Women are the majority of the unemployed and the dispossessed in SADC. They only own 10% of the land. | Chapter 4: Economic justice |
| Tuesday 25 August |
Constitution and legal rights Southern Africa: Customary practices make a mockery of new Constitutions |
The campaign against child marriages has gained momentum with Malawi raising the age of marriage to 18. | Customary laws and practices often run against Constitutional provisions on gender equality. | Chapter 1: Constitutional and legal rights |
| Wednesday 26 August |
Health |
Fewer women are dying at child birth in Zambia, Lesotho and Zimbabwe. | SADC has not achieved the MDG target of reducing maternal mortality by three quarters in 2015. | Chapter 6: Health |
| Thursday 27 August |
HIV and AIDS Southern Africa: Community action key to ending AIDS by 2030 |
Treatment of HIV and Aids in SADC is expanding rapidly. Mother to child transmission has been dramatically reduced. | Southern Africa has the highest proportion of people living with HIV and AIDS anywhere in the world. The majority of these are women. | Chapter 7: HIV and AIDS |
| Friday 28 August | Climate Change | The SADC Protocol on Environment has strong provisions on gender equality. | Women suffer the most from the natural disasters that accompany climate change. | Chapter 10: Gender, climate change and sustainable development |
| Monday 31 August | Peace and Security | Chapter 8: Peace building and conflict resolution |
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