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Namibia: SADC Gender Protocol 2012 Barometer - Namibia

By Colleen Lowe Morna, Loveness Jambaya Nyakujarah and Lucia Makamure, 7 December 2012

press release

Namibia has made remarkable progress towards meeting the targets of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Gender and Development set for 2015.

Namibia is one the 13 countries that have signed and among the 11 that have ratified the SADC Gender Protocol.

Namibia became the first country in SADC to develop, cost and align its gender action plan to the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development and Millennium Development Goal 3 as a roadmap towards achieving gender equality. The country has also reviewed its national gender policy.

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