Gender Is My Agenda Campaign - GIMAC Network

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Comprising about 55 national and international organizations, the GIMAC Network aims to create a space for civil society to monitor the implementation of the Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa (SDGEA).
Since 2002, the GIMAC Network lobbied for a high level mechanism and platform for dialogue between women's organisations and networks and key decision making structures of the AU to ensure that gender and women's rights issues and concerns are discussed and considered during Heads of State Summits decisions and resolutions and in the work of the AUC.
The AU has recognised and accepted GIMAC Network and its network members as key partners in promoting gender mainstreaming within the AUC, RECs and member states. The GIMAC network has been afforded bi-annual platforms to present their recommendations to Heads of States during AU summits. Since 2002, the GIMAC Network has contributed to the AU Theme of the year by issuing civil society statements to the AU Summit. Most of Network's recommendations have been adopted in the final Heads of States Declarations and recommendations regarding gender in Africa.
From its formation in 2002, GIMAC Network's objective was to influence the AU's Policy and Normative framework so that it could be gender sensitive and responsive by providing guidelines for mainstreaming gender at all levels of the AU, RECs and member states. Key achievements of GIMAC advocacy influence include: Adoption of the Gender Parity Principle by the AUC; Adoption of Gender Mainstreaming as a strategy for gender equality within the AUC and MS; Adoption of the Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa (SDGEA); Adoption of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights relating to the Rights of Women (Maputo Protocol); Adoption of the African Union Gender Policy; Adoption of Policies aimed at Prevention of Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Women and Girls; and Launch of the African Women's Decade (2010-2020).

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