Beijing Plus 20
Presentation to DPG Main, Dar es Salaam,
2 Dec. 2014
Ms. Anna Maembe,
Permanent Secretary MCDGC
Ms. Anna Collins-Falk,
Representative, UN Women
The Beijing Journey
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The Fourth World Conference on Women held in
Beijing in 1995 resulted in the adoption of the
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
(BDPfA) by 189 Member States of the United Nations.
It has 12 Critical Areas of Concern to guide the
mainstreaming of gender in policies, strategies and
programmes.
The Declaration calls upon Member States to commit
to the advancement of the goals of equality,
development and peace for all women while
reaffirming the principal that the rights of women and
girls are an inalienable, integral and indivisible part
of universal human rights.
Regular Reviews
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The accountability framework for the Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action requires member
States of the United Nations to meet on a five-yearly
basis to review their implementation, at both regional
and global levels, of the Platform for Action
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The BPFA 12 critical areas of concern which
constitute barriers for the advancement of women,
and identified a range of actions that governments,
the United Nations, and civil society groups, should
take to make women’s human rights a reality
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Tanzania submitted its four review reports and the
B+20 was reviewed in Addis in November 2014.
The BPfA
The12 critical areas of concern in the Beijing Platform
for Action include:
1. Women and Poverty
2. Education and Training of Women
3. Women and Health
4. Violence Against Women
5. Women and Armed Conflict
6. Women and the Economy
7. Women in Power and Decision Making
8. Institutional Mech. for the Advancement of Women
9. Human Rights of Women
10. Women and Media
11. Women and the Environment
12. The Girl Child
Global and Regional Normative Frameworks
UN frameworks and instruments, international conferences and the
CEDAW, provides the basis for realizing equality between women and
men.
Backed by regional documents, instruments and processes, including:
• The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights adopted in
2003
• Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on
the Rights of Women in Africa: The adoption of the Women’s Rights
Protocol sought to address the ACHPR’s omission of women’s rights.
Of the 53 AU member countries, 49 have signed the protocol.
• The Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa (SDGEA)
2004: SDGEA is considered as a reporting framework and was adopted
by AU heads of state and government s at their July 2004 Summit
• African Women’s Decade 2010-2020: The declaration of the
Women’s Decade (2010–2020) provides a road map for the realization
of the objectives for the Decade. The theme of the Decade is ‘Grassroots Approach to Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment’,
emphasizing a bottom-up approach to development.
9th African Regional Conference on Women
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African ministers recommitted to implementing Beijing
Platform for Action
Adopted a Declaration calling for governments to achieve
gender equality by 2030, as spelled out in the Agenda 2063
Noted remaining challenges to implementing BPfA,
compounded by emerging issues, such as climate change,
terrorism, conflicts, global economic and financial crises and
increasing inequality.
Called for African governments to allocate adequate
resources by adopting appropriate strategies, including
gender budgeting; to accelerate the implementation of the
remaining gaps from the BPfA through strengthened domestic
resource mobilization and allocation to women’s needs.
AUC: 2015 the Year of Women’s Empowerment
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Called on international partners, incl. the UN, to provide
technical and financial support, and the space and resources
for the women’s movement in Africa to play their critical
role of providing services to women and girls and
demanding accountability for the implementation of agreed
upon national, regional and global commitments on gender
equality and women’s empowerment.
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Welcomed the decision of the Assembly of Heads of State
and Government of the AUC declaring the year 2015 as the
“Year of Women’s Empowerment and Development
towards realizing Africa’s Agenda 2063”.
A more transformative framework………
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Africa has to come up with a more transformative
framework, which will accelerate the desired change in
the lives of women and girls, with a focus on investing in
women’s education, health, property rights, access to
and control over financial resources, knowledge and
information.
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Today we have a lot of evidence that confirms what
feminist researchers and development practitioners have
argued for the last 30 years: that the contribution women
make to development is of paramount importance and
unless development benefits women, it will not benefit
the rest of the society.
Outcome Document Beijing Plus 20 Review
• Africa has come a long way as a region in addressing
gender inequalities and have made gains along the way.
• Mindful of the persisting challenges and bottlenecks to
achieving full gender equality on the continent
• Committed to continue working with you to take
advantage of the global processes-SDGs, post 2015
development agenda, CSW 2015 etc in ensuring sound
frameworks for the implementation of gender equality
goals
• Finally, achieving “gender equality” and ending
discrimination against women and girls requires the
involvement of men and boys, families, communities and
nations and the international community.
Analysis of Beijing reviews
Success in enhancing the
capabilities of women in the
social sectors
(education and health);
Progress in enhancing
women’s voice and
agency in political
power and decisionmaking;
Analysis of Beijing reviews……ctd
Very limited progress in pulling women out of
poverty due to inadequate and ineffective
provision of economic opportunities
Beijing Plus 20 in Tanzania.
Snapshot of Progress in Tanzania
• Strategies, Policies, plans and programmes gender
responsive: Vision 2025, MKUKUTA, MKUZA, Gender Policy
(2000),Education, Health, and others
• Ratified international and regional instruments on equality
and human rights to promote gender equality.
• Gender parity achieved in primary education, doing well
with secondary (challenge in tertiary -dropouts due t0
pregnancy, early marriage, etc-; few girls pursuing STEM
• Financing for GEWE– VICOBA, SACCOS, a few banks.
• More women in SMEs
• Women in decision making (36% in parliament, judges, RCs
and DCs and many more high level posts along with more
women in media
Snapshot of Progress in Tanzania
• Sectoral awareness on gender equality and women’s
empowerment although not enough
• Done well in reducing maternal mortality rate (but still
high)
• Collaboration btn all players (Govt, CSOs, partly
private sector and DPs) increased and more support
for programmes addressing GEWE
• Gender Mainstreaming Working Group on Macro
Policy developed Gender mainstreaming Guidelines
for BRN and Evidence Based Statistics and Analysis –
Country Gender Profile
Achievements cont.
Coalition on VAWG and
“sextortion” engaging in national
campaign and advocacy through
police, judiciary and CSOs.
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Snapshot of Challenges in Tanzania
• Women’s economic empowerment,( esp. in access to and
ownership of resources including land)
• High prevalence of Violence against Women and Girls;
• Lack of investment in social protection impacting
negatively on women and other vulnerable groups;
• Limited financing for gender equality and women’s
empowerment;
• Gender dimensions of climate change and weakness in
health systems to respond to calamities
• Inadequate data and statistics (incl gender analysis)
• Ineffective Implementation of legal and normative
frameworks by institutions on women’s human rights due
to existence of multiplicity of laws ( religious, customary
and statutory laws)
• Failure to move women into formal employment and their
continued shouldering of the burden of care.
Strategies
Key strategies identified include:
structural transformation (opportunities in constitutional
review, review of laws, seize emerging opportunities, gas,
mining and others
Mainstreaming gender in all sectors – need to strategise
during budget guidelines preparation with a gender lens –
DPS as partners help gender mainstreaming with MoF,
Planning Commission, and all sectors), MCDGC to monitor
how this is done and document.
Analysis and financing… Gender Budget Statements.
women’s work in key productive sectors (i.e. agriculture)
and Climate change affecting more women and eroding the
achievements so far
NEED DPG Main SUPPORT
Strategies
• Being strategic in influencing ongoing processes such
as SDGs, AU Summit 2015, CSW 2015, and the Post
2015 Development Agenda.
• Identifying bold interventions that ensures tangible
sustainable results that will benefit ordinary women at
the local levels – financing for gender equality eg use of
mobile phones (ICT) to access markets, medical
services even education for rural women/girls
• Improving sanitation for girls in schools.
• Stakeholders on GEWE should take advantage of the
opportunities to address the challenges and gaps
identified including financing for gender equality to
ensure that NGM is fully resourced not only with funds
but also with capacity for monitoring and coordination
• MCDGC has the mandate to coordinate Gender
Mainstreaming through GMWG-MP
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Strategies
• Sector GFPs are motivated, GMWG-MP doing a good job
– policy dialogues, engaging in BRN (guideline for
gender mainstreaming developed and distributed, now ,
developing the Tanzania Country Gender Profile as
evidence base for policy and advocacy
• Capacity for GFPs and NGM/NWM is needed
• DPs can facilitate by “putting on a gender lens” in
insisting on gender analysis and supporting resources
allocation and monitoring through the PAFs and PER and
other mechanisms to ensure financing for gender equality
in support of gender equality results
Upcoming Opportunities
• International Women’s Day: will be celebrated Nationally
in Morogoro Region from 3rd -8th March 2015; ( the 20
years of Beijing will be further assessed).
• Big national symposium to critique what has been done,
achievements etc.
• Will be published into a book (knowledgebase)
• Well researched papers by academicians, case studies
by farmers and pastoralists will be showcased
• The event will involve Govt, CSOs private sector, farmers
and pastoralists, businesswomen etc
• 59th CSW - from 9th-20th March 2015 to mark 20th
Anniversary of Beijing; Review MDGs and Develop the
Post 2015 Development Agenda and the SDGs.
• Tz needs to showcase at CSW 59 (March 2015) (cross
border trade – tbd)
FOCUS: Women’s Economic Empowerment
Platform leaders from nine border posts and Tanzania Women Chambers
of Commerce members come together to develop platform membership
guidelines for cross border traders.
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Asanteni sana
Thank you.
Beyond lipservice!
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