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Table of Contents :

1- Commitment to Women’s Rights

• Overview of results
• Ratification of CEDAW without reservations
• OP-CEDAW
• African Women’s Protocol (Article 5)
• Critical Observations and Recommended Actions

2- Commitment to Addressing Violence Against Women

• Overview of results
• Beijing Platform for Action
• Domestic violence
• Rape
• Sexual harassment
• Trafficking
• Article 27 of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
• Critical observations and recommended actions

3- Commitment to Access and Quality Education

• Overview of the education GSI results
• AWPS education indicators
• Critical observations and recommended actions

4- Commitment to Access and Quality Health Care

• Overview of the Health GSI
• The AWPS health assessment: commitment to ICPD +15
• Critical observations and recommended actions

5- Access to Economic Opportunities and Resources

• Overview of the GSI of the economic block
• Overview of the AWPS of the economic block
• Critical conclusions and recommended actions

6- African Women’s Agency and Decision-Making

• Overview of the GSI of the political block
• The GSI: Public sector participation
• The GSI: Civil society participation
• Overview of the AWPS of the political block
• UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security
• Gender mainstreaming in all government departments
• Critical observations and recommended actions

7- Perspectives, Conclusions and Way Forward

• Perspectives on the AGDI and other development indices
• Cross dimensional perspectives
• Challenges and Improvements in the utilization of the AGDI
• Recommended actions to improve the AGDI
• Final conclusions and way forward