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SADC VISION
2050
A peaceful, inclusive, competitive, middle- to high-income industrialised region,
where all citizens enjoy sustainable economic well-being, justice and freedom
Cross Cutting Issues
Gender, Youth, Environment and Climate Change, and Disaster Risk Management
Industrial Infrastructure
Social and
Development Development Human Capital
in Support
and Market of Regional Development
Integration CROSSCUTTING ISSUES
Integration
Peace, Security, and Good Governance
v Gender Based Violence. This Result
GENDER Area focuses on addressing Gender
Based Violence (GBV), with emphasis
on women and children. It focusses on
The mandate of the SADC Gender Unit is to promoting and supporting the
facilitate, coordinate, monitor and evaluate implementation of the SADC Regional
the implementation of the SADC Protocol on Strategy and Framework of Action on
Gender and Development, regional sectoral Addressing Gender-Based Violence
strategies, the RISDP as well as other regional, (2018-2030) by Member States, with
continental and global gender instruments specific contribution to prevention and
that SADC Member States are party to. response to all forms of GBV.
The Gender Unit spearheads
mainstreaming of gender in all regional
initiatives to ensure that a gender perspective KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
permeates the entire SADC Regional
Integration Agenda. The Unit also monitors, In the area of promoting and advancing
evaluates and ensures reporting on progress Gender Equality and Development, the Unit
made towards the achievement of gender achieved the following milestones.
targets that Member States have committed
to at both regional and international levels. Tool to Guide Implementation of the
Gender is one of the issues which cuts SADC Protocol on Gender and
across each pillar of the RISDP 2020-2030 to Development
90 ensure that efforts for socio-economic The SADC Regional Guidelines on
transformation of the SADC region do not Developing and Implementing National
marginalise sections of SADC’s population. Gender Action Plans were developed and
The mandate of the Gender Unit contributes technically validated by Member States in
to the SADC strategic objective of improving March 2021. The Guidelines are intended to
human capacities for socio-economic catalyse implementation of the objectives of
development. the SADC Protocol on Gender and
The Unit’s strategic objective is to “enhance Development by providing guidance tools for
gender equality, women empowerment and operationalizing the Protocol at Member
development, and eliminate gender-based State level. The Guidelines will be presented
violence in the SADC region.” to the Gender and Women's Affairs Ministers
The two Key Results Areas of the SADC at their 2021/2022 meeting for endorsement
Gender Unit are: before dissemination to Member States.
v Gender Equality and Development.
This Result Area focuses on increasing SADC Engagement in the UN Commission
the participation of women in regional on the Status of Women
development and equal access to The SADC Gender Unit and Member States
opportunities. This encompasses issues successfully participated at the 65th Session
of gender mainstreaming in all the of the UN Commission on the Status of
priority sectors of regional integration; Women (65th CSW) in March 2021 where
and specifically addresses issues of the SADC common position on the status of
women in politics and decision-making Gender Equality and Women Empowerment
positions, women economic was presented by the Mozambican Minister
empowerment, information and of Gender as the Chairperson of SADC. The
experience-sharing, and the broader SADC statement highlighted progress and
challenges for the SADC Region with regard
aspects of monitoring, evaluating and
to the full and effective participation and
reporting on the implementation of the
decision-making of women in public life, as
Protocol on Gender and Development.
well as in addressing gender-based violence.