In 2007, EASSI embarked on implementing a campaign that seeks to bring into focus the gendered implications of the Treaty to establish the East African Community and that will result into a Protocol on regional gender equality - “The East African Protocol on Gender Equality (EADGE). The aim of the campaign is to bring together into one legally binding regional instrument, all the commitments to gender equality (The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, CEDAW, the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, and the MDGs. This will enable a regional approach to gender and development in the EAC member States.
Thursday 23 June 2011
Friday 17 June 2011
OUR 2011 LEADERSHIP TRAINING PROGRAMME IS NOW ON.
Visiting the EASSI stall at the Civil Society Fair in Uganda in June 2011
After months of planning and preparing for the 2011 Young Women's Leadership Training Institute, 10 young women are now with us for an intensive and rewarding period of two months to learn and get empowered to become leaders in their communities. The impressive 2011 young women are from all the 8 member countries of EASSI. We have Lydia from Burundi; Selamawit from Ethiopia; Adiam from Eritrea; Judith and Anna Grace fro Tanzania; Mariam and Justine from Uganda; Scovia from Rwanda; Farrah from Somalia; and Olga from Kenya. We are so grateful to our Focal Point Organisations that recommended the young women for the training. So far, the modules that have been covered include feminism, gender and development, leadership and communication, and transformational leadership.
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