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Gender Mainstreaming in SADC and SADC-EU Trade Relations

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Gender Equality Norms in Regional Governance

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Abstract

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) considers gender equality to be one of its central aims. Interestingly, SADC has adopted a relatively ‘holistic’ approach to gender since the outset. As SADC Executive Secretary, Tomáz Augusto Salomão, told the member state representatives:

Only when we realise full gender equality and equity will this be a community of well being, one in which we experience an improved standard of living and an enhanced quality of life. This will be a society marked by freedom, social justice, peace and security.1

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  1. Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Anna van der Vleuten  & Anouka van Eerdewijk  & 

  2. FLACSO Ecuador and VU University, The Netherlands

    Conny Roggeband

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van der Vleuten, A., Hulse, M. (2014). Gender Mainstreaming in SADC and SADC-EU Trade Relations. In: van der Vleuten, A., van Eerdewijk, A., Roggeband, C. (eds) Gender Equality Norms in Regional Governance. Gender and Politics Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137301451_8

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