A fifteen-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in Africa (BPfA) +15 From 1995–2009: main report (draft)

Abstract

The Africa regional review of Beijing +15 undertake a specific examination of progress made in the continent since 1995 but more specifically within the time frame of 2005-2009. This regional review process focused in general on the 12 thematic areas around which the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) revolves and more specifically on the key outcomes of the 1999 and 2004 regional review process of Dakar and Abuja respectively. A key outcome of the former process was the need for African governments to invest more in the reproductive and health and rights of women, with emphasis on the reduction of maternal mortality, the gendered impacts of HIV/AIDS and improving the economic and political status of African women. Other global, regional and sub-regional processes also occupy central place to the African Beijing +15 review.