Briefing note on the SADC gender programme
A number of developments have taken place since the adoption of the above instruments. The Standing Committee of Ministers met in, Gaborone, Botswana, in 1997, in Pretoria, South Africa in 1998, in Lilongwe, Malawi in 1999, Mauritius in the year 2000 and Mozambique in May 2001. The Gender Unit was set up at the SADC Secretariat in June, 1998 and has the overall responsibility to advise all SADC structures on gender issues and to ensure that a gender perspective permeates the entire SADC Programme of Action and Community Building Initiative. 1.5 Following the recent restructuring of SADC institutions, gender issues will now be dealt with by the new department of Strategic Planning, Gender, Development and Policy Harmonisation, to ensure the mainstreaming of gender into all strategic planning, policy harmonisation, programmes and activities of the organisation.
| Format: | Conference document biblioteca |
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| Language: | eng |
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2001-11
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10855/14109 |
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