Senegal: Economic Commission for Africa, African Union hold joint gender meeting in Senegal

Over 30 African Ministers of Gender and Women's Affairs gathered Wednesday, October 12 in Dakar, Senegal, for a meeting of one of Africa's key groupings on women's affairs. Its core objective is advocacy for gender-sensitive policies and institutional changes at all levels. ECA and the AU have adopted a joint strategy to follow up on the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of this document and the Solemn Declaration on Gender and Development in Africa. The Dakar meeting will concentrate on defining a common national approach to this strategy, renewing membership of the CWD, and reviewing the work programme of ECA's gender division, the African Centre for Gender and Development, for 2007.