Policy harmonization in addressing gender-based violence in Southern Africa

Abstract

This report presents the results of a study undertaken to analyse the degree of gender-based violence gender-based violence policy harmonization in Southern Africa. The study utilized various global, regional and sub regional policy documents as the basis for such an analysis. These policy documents include the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995), the African Union Gender Policy (2013), the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women (2003), the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Gender and Development (2008) and the addendum (1998) to the Declaration on Gender and Development by Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Corporation (1997).