1. 2019 SADC PROTOCOL@WORK SUMMITS OVERVIEW
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2019 SADC SUMMITS OVERVIEW
By Alliance Focal Person
“Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.”

2. “Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.”
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Purpose
To gather good practices on gender integration into the work of organisations and on specific thematic areas.
To provide a platform for learning and sharing on gender equality
To prepare for the 2019 regional summit
To popularise the #VoiceandChoice and 50/50 campaigns
“Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.”

3. Evolution of the Summit
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Evolution of the Summit
SADC Summit: #Voice and Choice
Five SADC Gender Work Summits 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016,
Two Gender Justice and Local Government and Local Government Summits 2011, 2012
Five Media Summits in 2004;, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2016 and 2018 (Tanzania)
“Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.”

4. “Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.”
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Why #VoiceandChoice
Citizens need to exercise voice and choice to fully participate in public and private lives
Overarching inhibitor is the inability to make choices about our bodies
SRHR – access to contraception, menstrual and maternal health,CSE, dealing with burgeoning youth populations
“Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.”

5. Pillars of #VoiceandChoice
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Pillars of #VoiceandChoice
Services
Advocacy
Prevention
Education
Innovation
“Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.”

6. 2019 Summits “Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.”
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2019 Summits
Citizens’
wellbeing – participate fully in public and private life
Media – putting issues in the public sphere
Local Government – delivering government to communities (10 countries)
Civil society organisations – providing innovative options
Sunrise participants
Local SRHR service providers
“Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.”

7. “Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.”
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Where?
All 15 SADC countries
Angola, DRC, Malawi, Seychelles and Tanzania – civil society and media
Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe – local government, civil society and media
“Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.”

8. “Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.”
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Timelines
Botswana, Madagascar, Mauritius, South Africa – June
Angola, DRC, Malawi, Namibia, Seychelles, Tanzania – July
eSwatini, Lesotho, Zambia and Zimbabwe – by November
Regional – November 2019
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9. “Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.”
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Pre-summit processes
Buy in for the summit from partners
Popularise summit call, gather entries
Summit logistics
“Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.”

10. “Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.”
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Beyond summits
Winners prepare for regional summit.
Winners entries can be viewed on the GL website –
Cascade the #VoiceandChoice campaign
2019 #VoiceandChoice Barometer
“Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence.”