Making the Post-2015 agenda work for gender equality

Amount funded: £90,000
Year: 2015
Duration: 36 months
Locations: Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Zambia
Grant stream: Open grants call

Issue

In 2008, Southern Africa governments signed and adopted the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Gender and Development. Ensuring governments' accountability to the Protocol's targets is key to its implementation.

Project partners

Gender Links, South Africa

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How we are helping

Supporting Gender Links and the Gender Protocol Alliance to aligned the Protocol to SDG 5 and to track government progress across the region in implementing the Protocol's targets.

About the project

Gender Links will enable civil society organisations from eight Southern Africa countries to work with the SADC Gender Unit and governments on drafting a revised Protocol on Gender and Development, and to follow up on its implementation. This will include gathering case studies on gender equality from civil society, local and national government in the region, and using the Citizens Score Card to gather citizen perspectives on progress made by their governments towards gender equality.

It is expected that by the end of the project, a new Protocol with civil society input will have been adopted by the Southern Africa Development Community. Civil society will also have acquired the necessary tools to track progress towards achieving gender equality in line with the new Post-2015 development framework.

Project Partners

Gender Links, South Africa

Gender Links works with partners at local, national and regional level to: produce evidence based research on gender gaps and progress in the SADC region and use it in advocacy efforts; promote gender equality in all areas of governance; foster a gender movement through coalition building; and, build capacity of civil society to engage in processes that advance gender equality and justice. Gender links coordinates an alliance of 15 national networks, comprising 40 organisations, and nine regional networks. Organisations from the alliance based in the eight target countries will be involved in country activities such as in the delivery of workshops, collation of a matrix of indicators and case studies.