African's mid-term review of Dakar and Beijing commitments

Abstract

The current document is intended to inform SRDC/ICEs Africa's preparations towards the mid-term review of the Beijing process. Towards this end, the report is divided into eight sections including this introduction. Section II summarises the presentations by ECA partners and the NGO sector; in section III, we present an overview of the African Plan of Action; Section IV summarises the country reports as they pertain to the 12 critical areas of the PFA; section V recaps the main issues arising from Beijing +5 review; VI addresses the fact that sub-regions may want to concentrate on certain issues as being of particular concern to their sub-region; section VII summarises the recommendations from the 6th Regional Conference on Women; while section VIII concludes the report by pointing to the major lessons learned and the way forward. A complete version of the African Plat form of Action can be found in Section IX of the Annex.