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Girl Guide Act

Women Affairs

An Act to further and protect the activities and interests of the Girl Guides Association.

Tanzania 1935 Gender and Human Rights

The Gender Equality Act, 2002

Ministry of Health

This is an Act specifying the provisions to ensure gender equality in elective and appointment decision making positions and for other connected matters.

Sierra Leone 2002 Gender and Human Rights

The Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Act, 2022

Gender and Children's Affairs

This Act is a revised version of the 2021 Gender Empowerment Act. The Act aims to promote gender equality and to make provision for a minimum of 30% representation for elective and appointive public officer positions, to make provision for equal opportunity for the training of employees, to make provision for financial institutions to prescribe procedures for the improvement of women access to finance and for other connected matters.

Sierra Leone 2022 Gender and Human Rights

National Gender Policy

Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, Nigeria

This national policy outlines the government’s plan for gender equality, good governance, accountability, and support for the needs of its vulnerable groups in Nigeria. The overarching goal is “to build a just society devoid of discrimination, where the needs and concerns of women, men, girls, and boys are mainstreamed equitably into all sectors of national development.

Nigeria 2021 Gender and Human Rights

National Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Policy and Action Plan

Federal Ministry of Women Affairs

The National Women’s Economic Empowerment Policy and Action Plan serves as a roadmap for enhancing women’s economic empowerment in Nigeria. The main goal of the National WEE Policy and Action Plan for 2023-2028 is to accelerate structural reforms and prioritize sector-specific interventions necessary to promote the full participation and success of women and girls in Nigeria’s dynamic economy.

Nigeria 2023 Gender and Human Rights

The National Gender Policy 2013-2017

Ministry of Women and Youth Affairs, Zimbabwe

The National Gender Policy aims to achieve a gender-just society where men and women enjoy equality and equity and participate as equal partners in the development process of the country. The policy goal is to eradicate gender discrimination and inequalities in all spheres of life and development.

Zimbabwe 2013 Gender and Human Rights

The National Gender Policy 2013-2017

Ministry of Women and Youth Affairs, Zimbabwe

This is designed to eradicate gender discrimination and inequalities in all spheres of life and development.

Zimbabwe 2013 Gender and Human Rights

National AIDS Council, NAC Gender Policy, 2008, 19 pp.

Zimbabwe

The gender policy for the NAC provides a framework within which institutional policies, strategies and programs mainstream gender and women’s empowerment into the national response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic.

Zimbabwe 2008 Gender and Human Rights

Zimbabwe Gender Commission Act [Chapter 10:31]

Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Gender Commission

This is an Act to provide for the establishment of the Zimbabwe Gender Commission to perform specified functions, including the investigation of and making of recommendations on the removal of barriers to the attainment of full gender equality; and to provide for matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing.

Zimbabwe 2015 Gender and Human Rights

ZEC Gender and Inclusion Policy 2020-2024

Ministry of Women and Youth Affairs, Zimbabwe

The Policy vision is that of democratic elections which advance gender equality and inclusion. The policy goal is to ensure equal, equitable and inclusive participation of all the citizens in democratic elections in Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe 2020 Gender and Human Rights

The Refugees Act 217

Ministrry of Human Rights, Zambia

This Act establishes the office of the Commissioner for Refugees and provides for its functions, the recognition, protection and control of refugees and provide for the rights and responsibilities of refugees

Zambia 2017 Gender and Human Rights

Department of Women Strategic Plan 2015-2020

Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, South Africa

This is a five-year plan of the Department of Women to develop policies, programmes and mechanisms to empower women and to transform gender relations in all aspects of work and all levels of government, as well as within the broader society.

South Africa 2015 Gender and Human Rights

Policy on Disability

Ministry of Justice and Correctional Services, South Africa

The Policy on Disability of the Department of Social Development (DSD) focuses on the provision of integrated developmental social services, i.e. security, welfare and community development for people with disabilities. It aims to guide and inform the mainstreaming of disability in the development and implementation of all policies, strategies and integrated service delivery programmes of the department.

South Africa Gender and Human Rights

Department of Social Development Policy on Financial Awards to Service Providers

Ministry of Justice and Correctional Services, South Africa

The Policy on Financial Awards to Service Providers in the social development sector is primarily aimed at ensuring that government, together with the non-governmental sector, and where appropriate, private sector organisations, achieve the mission of the department namely “to enable the poor, the vulnerable and the excluded within the South African society to secure a better life for themselves.

South Africa Gender and Human Rights

Policy Framework on Orphans and other Children made Vulnerable by HIV and AIDS South Africa

Ministry of Justice and Correctional Services, South Africa

This policy framework has the objectives to ensure coordinated action at national, provincial, district and local level to realise the rights of orphans and other children made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS, their caregivers, families and communities and to ensure that legal, policy and institutional frameworks for the protection and promotion of the rights of affected children are implemented at all levels.

South Africa 2005 Gender and Human Rights

Child Justice Amendment Act, 2019

Ministry of Justice and Correctional Services, South Africa

This is an Act to amend the Child Justice Act, 2008, so as to amend a definition, to further regulate the minimum age of criminal capacity, to regulate the provisions relating to the decision to prosecute a child who is 12 years or older but under the age of 14 years, to further regulate the proof of criminal capacity and to further regulate the assessment report by the probation officer.

South Africa 2019 Gender and Human Rights

Promotion of Administration Justice Act 3 of 2000

Ministry of Justice and Correctional Services, South Africa

This is an Act to give effect to the right to administrative action that is lawful, reasonable and procedurally fair and to the right to written reasons for administrative action as contemplated in section 33 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 and to provide for related matters.

South Africa 2000 Gender and Human Rights

National Youth Policy 2015-2020

Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, South Africa

This policy emphasizes the need for various youth development efforts and interventions that holistically respond to all aspects or spheres of young people’s lives. Its goal is to consolidate youth initiatives that enhance the capabilities of young people to transform the economy and society by addressing their needs, promoting positive outcomes, opportunities, choices and relationships and providing the support necessary to develop all young people, particularly those outside the social, political and economic mainstream.

South Africa 2015 Gender and Human Rights

Child Justice Amendment Act 28 of 2019 (English / Setswana)

Ministry of Justice and Correctional Services, South Africa

This is an Act to amend the Child Justice Act, 2008, so as to amend a definition, to regulate the minimum age of criminal capacity, to regulate the provisions relating to the decision to prosecute a child who is 12 years or older but under the age of 14 years and to further regulate the proof of criminal capacity.

South Africa 2020 Gender and Human Rights

The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development Strategic Plan 2017-2020

Ministry of Justice and Correctional Services, South Africa

This document details how to achieve four strategic goals of the department that include the optimization of the use of people, processes and technology to meet service delivery and good governance requirement, provision of people-centred justice services that are accessible, reliable and efficient, promotion of constitutionalism, human rights and commitment to international legal relations and also provide cost-effective and integrated quality legal services to proactively protect the interest of the state.

South Africa 2017 Gender and Human Rights