| 10 Years of Promoting Gender in Africa |
Prior to the 21st Ordinary Session of the Heads of State and Government in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 26-27th May, the Gender is My Agenda Campaign GIMAC) Network will hold a Meeting on Gender Mainstreaming in the African Union (AU) on 20-21st May. This meeting will be marked by the 10th GIMAC anniversary, which will be celebrated with special festivities.
The meeting will be held under the high patronage of H.E. Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, African Union Commission Chairperson, who will officially launch the activities.
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Please find the french version, here >>
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| The 21st GIMAC Pre-Summit Consultative Meeting on Gender Mainstreaming in the AU, UN ECA, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 22-23 January 2013 |
| Pan Africanism and the African Renaissance. |
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The curtain fell on the 21st Session of the GIMAC Wednesday, January 23, 2013. More than 200 participants from fifty Organizations took part in the debates. Opened January 22, 2013 by His Excellency Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission, the session ended with a press conference at the African Union. Hon. Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland, Ms. Zainab Bangura, the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict and Mrs. Bineta Diop, President of Femmes Africa Solidarité, responded for about an hour to questions from journalists. We'll go into more detail on key decisions and highlights of the 21st GIMAC. |
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GIMAC FINAL Recommendations, English / French
Press release, Read more>>
View the video's interview of Ms Bineta DIOP, here >>
View the GIMAC's video on Africable, here >>
Please view the documentary film on GIMAC by Ibrahim Ceesay for African Youth Initiative on Climate Change here >>
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| Femmes
Africa Solidarité (FAS) and Gender is
my Agenda Campaign (GIMAC) members
welcome Dr. Dlamini-Zuma's election as
Chairperson of the African Union |
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Dr. Nkosazana
Dlamini-Zuma, South Africa's Home
Affairs Minister, and a member of
Femmes Africa Solidarité’s (FAS)
Advisory Board, was elected as the
next chairperson of the African
Union Commission on 15th July 2012
during the 19th Assembly of the
African Union Heads of State and
Government. Dr. Dlamini-Zuma won
with 37 votes of the 51
participating countries to become
the commission’s first woman
chairperson. She will serve as the
Chairperson of the African Union
(AU) for the next four years. Read more
Please read the french version here
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The 20th African Women’s
Pre-Summit Cconsultation on Gender
Mainstreaming in the African Unuion
took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from July 10-11 2012,
convened by Femmes
Africa Solidarité (FAS) in partnership
with the United Nations Economic Commission for
Africa (UNECA),
the African Union Commission (AUC)
especially the Women, Gender and Development
Directorate with the support of African Capacity
Building Foundation (ACBF),
Mo Ibrahim
Foundation, UN
Women, Urgent Action Fund (UAF),
Ipas Africa
Alliance, Sirleaf
Market Women’s Fund, Isis-Women's
International Cross Cultural Exchange (Isis-WICCE)
and the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Finland, Norway and
Sweden;
Summary and
Recommendations (English): »
Summary and Recommendations (French): »
Mali Statement (English): »
Mali Statement (French): »
The 19th African Women’s
Pre-Summit on Gender Mainstreaming in the
African Union (AU) took place in Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia from 25-26
January 2012, convened by Femmes
Africa Solidarité (FAS) in partnership
with the United Nations Economic Commission for
Africa (UNECA),
the African Union Commission (AUC),
the Economic, Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC)
gender cluster, Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate
Justice (MRFCJ)
with the support of Ipas Africa Alliance and the
Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Finland, Norway
and Sweden
Summary and
Recommendations (English): »
Summary and Recommendations (French): »
The 18th
African Women’s Pre-Summit Consultation on
Gender Mainstreaming in the African Union (AU)
took place in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea from June 27-28 2011,
convened by Femmes
Africa Solidarité (FAS) in partnership
with the Economic, Social, and Cultural Council
(ECOSOCC)
Gender Cluster, Citizens and Diaspora
Directorate (CIDO),
and with the support of the African Union
Commission (AUC),
United
Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
and other UN agencies, Open Society Initiative (OSI), the
African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF),
Ipas,
Isis Women’s International Cross Cultural
Exchange (Isis-WICCE),
Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF),
the Global Fund for Women, the International
Labour Organization (ILO),
Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice (MRFCJ), and
with the governments of Equatorial Guinea,
Finland, Norway, Spain and Sweden
Summary and
Recommendations: »
The 17th African Women’s
Pre-Summit on Gender Mainstreaming in the AU
took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from January 24-26 2011,
convened by Femmes
Africa Solidarité (FAS) in partnership
with United Nations Economic Commission for
Africa (UNECA),
African Union Commission (AUC),
International Labour Organization (ILO)
and IPAS with
the support of the African Women’s Development
Fund (AWDF),
Urgent Action Fund, Open Society Initiative (OSI), Nobel
Women’s Initiative, Agencia Espanola De
Cooperacion Internacional, and the Ministries of
Foreign Affairs of Finland, Norway and Sweden
Summary and
Recommendations (English): »
Summary and Recommendations (French): »
The 16th AU Pre-Summit
African Women’s Consultation took place
in Kampala, Uganda from July
21st to 23rd July 2010, convened by Femmes Africa
Solidarité (FAS) in partnership with ISIS –WICCE,
International Labor Organization ( ILO),
IPAS,
African Union Commission (AUC),
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) with
the support of African Women’s Development Fund
(AWDF),
Urgent Action Fund, the Open Society Initiative
(OSI),
the Department For International Development (DFID), and
the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Finland and
Norway
Summary and
Recommendations: »
The 15th AU Pre- Summit
African Women’s Consultation took place
in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from January
21st and 22nd 2010,
convened by Femmes
Africa Solidarité (FAS)
with the support of the African Union Commission
(AUC),
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Open
Society Initiative (OSI),
Department for International Development (DFID),
African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF)
and the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Finland
and Norway;
Recommendations: »
The 14th Pre-Summit
Consultative Meeting on
Gender Mainstreaming in the African Union
took place in Tripoli, from 27-28 June
2009 on the margins of the Summit
Meeting of Heads of State and Government of the
African Union (AU).
The meeting is
organized by the GIMAC network and
coordinated by Femmes Africa Solidarité
(FAS), who works in partnership with
the African Union (AU), AU
Gender Directorate (AUGD),
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA),
Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA),
Department For International Development (DFID),
African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF)
and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland.
The AU meeting will
comprise the Ordinary Session of the Permanent
Representatives Committee (PRC), 24-26 June
2009; the Ordinary Session of the Executive
Council, the 28–30 June 2009, and the Ordinary
Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and
Government, the 1-3 July 2009.
Concept Note: »
Agenda: »
Administrative Note: »
Articles: "Boosting Africa’s Food Security
and Economic Growth- Investing in African
Women" by Mary Wandia »
The 13th Pre-Summit Consultative
Meeting took place from the 27th-28th
January 2009 in Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia.
It was organized by Femmes Africa
Solidarité (FAS), the GIMAC network, the AU
Women Gender & Development Directorate
(WGDD) and the UNECA African Centre for Gender
and Social Development and supported by ILO,
AWDF, OSIWA, DFID, and the African Development
Bank.
The meeting hold on
the margins of the Summit Meeting of Heads of
State and Government of the African Union (AU)
in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Full Text »
The 12th African Union (AU) Pre-Summit
Consultative Meeting on Gender Mainstreaming
in the African Union took place in Sharm El
Sheikh, Egypt from June the 21st to the 22nd
June, 2008 and brought together the members of
the “Gender Is My Agenda Campaign”.
The
participants discussed new challenges and
strategies of advocacy for effective gender
parity policies and practice, assessed progress
and shortcomings in the implementation of the
Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa
(SDGEA) during these last years and make
recommendations to the President of the AU
Commission and the commissioners; fostered the
partnership between different stakeholders and
strengthened the commitment to move forward the
effective implementation of the SDGEA. Full Text »
The 11th
Pre-Summit was held from 22-23
January 2008 at the UN Economic Commission for
Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on the margins
of the Summit of Heads of State and Government
of the African Union (AU).
The theme of the 11th Pre-Summit was
The Industrialisation of the African
Continent: "The gender perspective".
Experts from across Africa and the world came to
share their views on the subject.
Several prominent women and experts attended the
event.
Gisèle Mandaila, Secretary of State for Families
and Persons with Disabilities of Belgium and
Fatou Bensouda, Deputy Prosecutor at the
International Criminal Court, were among the
special guests invited to address the
conference.
Full Text »
As noted in a major report
issued by the UN Secretary-General, all forms
of violence against women represent an
unacceptable violations of human rights and
together.
They form a major impediment to gender
equality.
This campaign has
been launched following the adoption of the
Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa
(SDGEA), signed by representatives of the member
states of the African Union during the third
common session of the Conference, which was held
in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 6th to 8th July
2004.
The "Gender
is my Agenda" Campaign aims to bring
greater attention to violence against women, a
pervasive and deeply entrenched human rights
violation.
