Major Gender Unit Activities: 2006

• Protocol Experts Roundtable & Task Force Meeting, 14 – 15 September 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa.
• 2006 Meeting of SADC Ministers Responsible for Gender/Women Affairs, held in Maseru, Lesotho, 30TH November 2006.

Calendar of Activities: 2007

ACTIVITY	UNIT	DATES	VENUE
National Consultative Workshops on the Regional Conference on the Draft Gender Policy	Gender	Dec 2006 - April 2007	All MS
Data Collection on Women in Politics and Decision Making positions	Gender	Feb 2007	Secretariat
Capacity Building of Women in Post-conflict situations (In Collaboration with Centre for Conflict Resolution at the University of Cape Town)	Gender	10-12/04/ 2007	Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Regional Consensus Building Workshop on the Draft SADC Protocol on Gender and Development and the Draft Gender Policy	Gender	19-20/04/2007	Gaborone, Botswana
Southern Africa Regional Training Workshop in Gender, Trade Policy and Export Promotion (In Collaboration with the Commonwealth)	Gender/TIFI	02-06/07/2007	Windhoek, Namibia
Capacity development of Directorates/Units on Gender Mainstreaming	Gender	March/April 2007	SADC Secretariat
Ministers Responsible for Gender/Women’s Affairs Meeting on the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development	Gender	24-25/05/2007	Lusaka, Zambia
Ministers Responsible for Justice Meeting on the Draft SADC Protocol on Gender and Development	Gender	26-27/06/2007	Lusaka, Zambia
Research on the implementation of the Addendum on the Prevention and Eradication of Violence against Women and Children	Consultant	01-31/07/2007	SADC Secretariat/ Member States
Regional Conference on Violence Against Women and Children	Gender	Jan 2008	Grand Baie, Mauritius
Regional Conference for Women Parliamentarians- (In Collaboration with the SADC PF Leadership Centre.	Gender	November 2007	Maputo, Mozambique
Workshop to develop the Regional Gender Reporting tool (In Collaboration with UNECA)	Gender/ Statistics Unit	Feb 2008	Johannesburg, South Africa