Dear Colleagues, The SADC Gender Protocol Summit and Awards soar to greater heights this year with 14 district, 12 national and a regional summit calling on governments to account for their commitments to gender equality in the critical countdown to 2015. The summits will also witness the launch, from the ground up, of a movement from a strong post 2015 global and SADC gender agenda. This year,Gender Links Zambia will hold three district summits in the following districts;Livingstone 11 - 15 March 2014, Kasama 11-15th March 2014 and Kitwe 17 - 21 March 2014. These summits will preceed the national summit which will be held in Lusaka from 14-17 April 2014. Gender Links (GL), the Southern African Gender Protocol Alliance, local government associations, Faith Based Organisations and the Gender and Media Diversity Centre (GMDC) with the collaboration of the SADC Gender Unit, will coordinate the SADC Gender Protocol@Work summits under the strapline “50/50 by 2015 and a strong post 2015 agenda.” The summits will serve as a loud speaker for the call to step up the pace on fulfilling the 28 targets on the SADC Protocol before the 2015 deadline. With ten elections in the region between now and the end of 2015, the Alliance and partners will especially focus on the 50/50 campaign and use the elections to demand government actions and accountability. This year, for the first time, in a bid to strengthen the reach and impact of the SADC Protocol@Work Summit at the local level, summits will be cascaded to the district level in ten SADC countries. The district summits will serve to verify the work of nearly 200 Councils that have developed and are implementing gender action plans through the Centres of Excellence for Gender in Local Government initiative. The summits date back to the biannual Gender and Media Summits from 2004, joined in 2010 by annual Gender Justice and Local Government Summits. In 2013 GL, the Alliance, Faith Based Organisations, local government associations and media houses combined forces to host one overall 2013 SADC Protocol@Work Summit. The regional summit followed twelve national summits bringing to together over 1400 participants and gathering 742 best practices of the SADC Gender Protocol @ Work. With this slogan in mind, GL and Southern African Gender Protocol Alliance is calling for entries at local and national level, from civil society and Faith Based Organisations; government ministries; local government councils and media. The closing date for district level entries is 7 March 2014 and entries for national level close at 5 pm 20 March 2014. For entry instructions and to view the relevant award categories visit genderlinks.org.za/page/gender-summit. Deadline for district summit submissions is 7 March; national summits 20 March. For more information go to: genderlinks.org.za/page/gender-summit For more information please contact Sangulukani Zulu +260 977686722, Stephen Malulu +260 977826790 and Albert Ngosa +260 967 774825
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 11:55:31 +0000
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