The 2nd Meeting of the Sectoral Council on Gender, Youth, Children, Social Protection, and Community Development is taking place 22 to 26 October 2012 at Snow Crest Hotel in Arusha, Tanzania.
The Sectoral Council is considering, among others, the status of implementation of previous Decisions; the tools for mainstreaming gender into EAC policies and structures.
These tools include a Report of the Gender Audit for EAC together with the proposed Gender Mainstreaming Strategy and Action Plan, Training Manual and Guidelines for integrating Gender into EAC interventions.
In addition to these tools, there is also Gender Sensitive Outcome Indicators for the 4th EAC Development Strategy which were developed on the basis of the Gender Audit.
Since 2010, the EAC has been developing a comprehensive Social Development Framework in order to address cross-cutting social concerns for achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
After various consultations at national and regional levels, the Final Draft Social Development Framework was completed and is being tabled before the 2nd meeting of the Sectoral Council.
The Sectoral Council is also considering a proposal for an increased budget for the Gender and Community Development Department. So as to implement the EAC Strategic Plan on Gender, Youth, Children, Persons with Disabilities, Social Protection and Community Development (2012-2016) together with the Policy on PWDs,
and to implement the Social Development Agenda for EAC, it is of paramount importance that the Sector receives substantial resources from Partner States while the Secretariat continues to mobilize other resources from Development Partners.
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