WUNRN
21st PRE-SUMMIT
CONSULTATIVE MEETING ON GENDER MAINSTREAMING IN THE AFRICAN UNION
January 22-23, 2013 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
GENDER IS MY
AGENDA CAMPAIGN
We, representatives
of African civil society organizations and African women and youth leaders meeting under the umbrella of the “Gender
is my
Agenda Campaign” (GIMAC) at the 21st Pre-‐Summit
Consultative
Meeting
on
Gender
Mainstreaming
in
the
African
Union
(AU) in
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 22-‐23
January 2013;
Welcoming the decision of African Heads
of State and Government to devote the 20th Ordinary Session of the Summit of the African Union to the theme, “Pan-‐Africanism and African
Renaissance;”
Recognising African women’s active contributions to Pan-‐Africanism and African
Renaissance
as the
AU celebrates its 50th anniversary,
and the
critical
role of gender
equality in Africa’s
development;
Recalling the African Union Gender Parity Principle
(2002), the Protocol to the African
Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (2003),
the Solemn Declaration on Gender
Equality in Africa
(2004), the African Youth Charter (2006) and United Nations Security Council resolution 1325 (2000);
Welcoming the vision
of
the
Chairperson
of
the
African
Union
Commission,
Dr.
Nkosazana Dlamini-‐Zuma,
of “A Prosperous
Africa at Peace with
Itself”;
Urge the Assembly
of Heads of
State and
Government
to consider and
adopt the
following recommendations:
1. Include women as key partners in peace, mediation
and negotiation processes
in the Central African Republic (CAR), the Democratic
Republic of the Congo (DRC), Mali, Somalia, Sudan
and South Sudan.
2. Protect the rights of women in conflict and end impunity for sexual and gender-‐ based violence, and allocate financial resources towards reparations, medical and trauma services for survivors of sexual and gender-‐based violence.
3. Ensure women’s equal participation in all spheres decision making, and the equitable distribution of resources in the post-2015 development framework.
4. Enact and implement legislation for women to access land and actively
involve women farmers in the design
of adaptation strategies to address the impact of climate change on agriculture.
5. Facilitate access to land,
credit, training and new technologies to encourage youth participation in agriculture.
6. Improve quality
of education at all levels, and prioritize the education of girls in Science, Mathematics and Technology through appropriate scholarship
programmes.
7. Develop a certification process to monitor the application of gender equality principles in the private
sector.