Angola
  • Women's participation in the peace process
  • Women's poverty, food security and lack of economic power
  • Health, reproductive rights and access to family-planning services
  • Role of women in culture, family and socialisation
  • Women and the environment
  • Women's rights and human rights
  • Women's communication and information
  • The girl-child.
SADC Countries'
National Priority
Areas of Concern
Botswana
  • Women and poverty including economic empowerment of women
  • Women in power and decision-making
  • Education and training of women
  • Women and health
  • The girl-child
  • Violence against women (including human rights of women).
Lesotho
The first priority for Lesotho is to put in place a national gender policy. The policy's first draft has been produced and it was discussed and reviewed at a national workshop in February 1997. Further consultations at all levels of society have been conducted and the draft national gender policy was presented to cabinet late 1997. This document is yet to be endorsed by government.

Secondly, the national law reform commission has been set up and it is fully operational. The position Lesotho is taking in this regard is that the law is central to gender issues since it cuts across sectors. The commission is therefore expected to work on the laws so as to facilitate the closure of the existing gender gaps in as far as legal issues in all the sectors are concerned.

Global, Regional and National Commitments
More SADC Countries.....

  • Malawi, Mauritius and Mozambique
  • Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland and Tanzania
  • Zambia and Zimbabwe
    		•  Once the legal framework has been reformed, there will be a department set up and assigned full responsibility to facilitate the setting up of national priorities within the Beijing PFA as well as to set pace for the implementation of the priorities. Parallel to these government efforts, the NGOs in Lesotho are involved in gender related activities for the development of the country and have set their areas of priority that they refer to as common issues in the following manner:
    • Business
    • Agriculture, environment and natural resources
    • Demography and women
    • Disaster management
    • Human resource development and training
    • Economic, political and social development.
    • The NGOs recently added women and children as their seventh priority area of concern.
    Introduction [] SADC Gender Monitor
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