African Center for Gender and Development





Follow-up to (Beijing + 10) Scope The scope of the planned activities to follow up on the implementation of the *Outcome and Way Forward* of the Seventh African Regional Conference on Women (Beijing+10) covers the entire continent of Africa. It involves the national gender machineries that are responsible for monitoring and coordinating follow-up activities on gender, as well as the priority sectors selected by the member States out of the following list of priorities: • Economic empowerment of women • Maternal mortality • Land management to ensure access by women • Access to trade by women • Gender issues of HIV/AIDS • Strengthening Institutional Mechanisms • Gender issues on peace promotion and conflict management/resolution Each country will have to formulate a five-year plan of action for the implementation of the outcome of Beijing + 10. The plan of action should include: i) a monitoring strategy that collects data annually on progress made and constraints encountered; and ii) reporting modalities to ECA Committee on Women and Development (CWD) biennially. Activities On its part, and in order to support member States in the follow- up to the outcome of Beijing + 10, the African Center for Gender and Development has undertaken the following activities: 1. Prepare a draft strategy document for the implementation of the *Outcome and follow-up* of the Seventh African Regional Conference on Women. The document includes the following: • Proposed elements to be included in the five-year national plans of action for the implementation of priority sectors of the outcome document • Proposed indicators for monitoring and evaluating the priority sectors • Proposed reporting system of the monitoring reports as required by the CWD 2. Present the strategy document to CWD for discussion and approval 3. Organize five sub-regional training workshops to train senior officials from concerned sectors on the preparation, implementation and monitoring of five-year national plans of action. ACGD follow-up work with member States will be carried out both at the sub regional and national levels.