Gender Democracy

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Gender Democracy

ANALYSIS

The State of the Nation, Government Priorities and Women in South Africa

February 20, 2012 - This review gauges how government’s priorities set for 2012 in President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address (SONA 2012) will affect the social, political and economic status of women, and measures the advances made with regards to the five priorities the president set in the 2009 SONA. more»

EVENT

Mural Reveal at the Sentencing of Lesbian Zoliswa’s Murderers

- January 18, 2012 - As part of the “enhancing state responsiveness to Gender Based Violence” project Heinrich Boell Foundation (HBF) and the Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre (TLAC) in partnership with Free Gender revealed a mural that is to advocate for the eradication of hate crimes against lesbians. more»

EVENT

Making Local Government Work for Women

 - December 13, 2011 - Heinrich Boell Foundation and the Tswaranang Legal Advocacy Centre in partnership with FreeGender hosted a panel discussion on the 29 November 2011 that engaged local government councilors on issues of gender-based violence in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. more»

VIDEO

Engendering Leadership in Africa

 - June 10, 2011 - The video profiles comprise the stories of African women politicians who, under different conditions, political systems, and in their own way, have tried to use their political platforms to advance women’s rights. more»

WORKSHOP REPORT

Civil Society Debates Gender Equality Bill

- May 25, 2011 - In a bid to develop a joint response civil society organisations in the Western Cape came together for a workshop to debate the contents and development of the Gender Equality Bill. more»

WORKSHOP

Gender Responsive Budgeting

 - January 25, 2011 - The aim of the workshop organised by HBS was to educate members of parliament on gender responsive budgeting, to address gender related issues facing South Africa today, to read and understand annual reports (relating to gender equality) and to analyse budget reports. more»

ROUND TABLE

Challenges to Mainstreaming Gender in Legislation and Governance

 - May 14, 2010 - In an attempt to stimulate dialogue, together with the Gender Advocacy Programme, the Commission for Gender Equality and the Heinrich Boll Stiftung hosted an event on “Challenges to Mainstreaming Gender in Legislation and Governance: Comparative Perspectives" in Cape Town on the 3rd February 2010. The roundtable brought together public representatives, civil society organisations and academics.  more»
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POLICY BRIEF

Women in the executive: Can women's ministries make a difference?

 - February 2, 2010 - This article attempts an analysis of Women’s Ministries (structures on the level of the executive) that are normally tasked with the implementation of policy and legislation. It does so by looking at the experience of Women’s Ministries in the north, as well as in Africa. It also reflects on the more recent histories in the north of the dismantling of gender machineries as a consequence of gender mainstreaming. By Amanda Gouws more»

PARTNER ACTIVITY

SADC Protocol on Gender and Development Seminar

 - November 12, 2009 - On the 19th November 2009 the Gender Advocacy Programme (GAP) will in partnership with the Western Cape Network on Violence Against Women (WCNOVAW), and with the support of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Commission on Gender Equality host a seminar on the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development. more»

PARTNER ACTIVITY

Submission on the 11-Year Implementation of the Domestic Violence Act

 - November 2, 2009 - Following the announcement by the Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth, Children and People with Disabilities (“the Committee) that it would host public hearings on the implementation of the Domestic Violence Act No. 116 of 1998 (“the DVA”) over the last 11 years since its promulgation, the Gender Advocacy Programme (GAP) and the Western Cape Network on Violence Against Women (WCNOVAW) partnered to initiate a process to mobilize civil society organizations working in the area of domestic violence in the Western Cape to respond to this invitation. more»

PARTNER ACTIVITY

Review Seminar on the Domestic Violence Act

- October 21, 2009 - On Thursday October 15th the Gender Advocacy Programme (GAP) in partnership with the Western Cape Network on Violence Against Women (WCNOVAW) hosted a seminar to review the Domestic Violence Act 11 years on. The seminar sought to build and draw on expert knowledge from civil society organisations and other stakeholders in preparation for public hearings to be held 28th and 29th of October 2009. more»

STUDY

Polokwane – Taking women one step forward or two steps back?

- August 14, 2009 - Historically, women have been excluded from public life and still occupy largely peripheral and powerless positions when they do enter that realm. For this reason, women have developed a different voice, which can be described as a “submerged discourse”. This paper will engage with the extent to which the ANC, through the resolutions adopted at Polokwane in 2007, has attempted to create a policy framework within which the new government seeks to render women’s “submerged discourses” visible. By Joy Watson more»

COMMENT

Fix the gender machine

 - May 25, 2009 - The creation of another structure in the form of a ministry to promote the rights of women, this time alongside other disempowered groups, is ill-considered. A more worthwhile effort would have been to fix the problems plaguing the existing gender structures, rather than creating a whole new bureaucracy. By Christi van der Westhuizen more»
EVENT
People’s Power, People’s Parliament: A Civil Society Conference on South Africa’s Legislatures

When: 25-26 July

Where: Cape Town

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