African Womens Progress ScoreboardAWPS

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African Womens Progress Scoreboard-AWPS

• Qualitative measurement of progress in Empowering
  Women
• Measures the Governments performance in
  implementing Policy
• Focuses on issues that cannot be quantified
• Measures the gaps
• E.g Equality of pay-policy in Mauritius
• How is it working
• Is there a difference between pay in
  Public/Private Sector in relation to Gender

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Axes of the Scoreboard

• The AWPS comprises of
• Vertical Axis
• Horizontal Axis
• 4 blocks

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The Vertical Axis involves the following criteria
to measure performance

• Ratification
• Reporting
• Law
• Policy Commitment
• Development of a Plan
• Targets
• Institutional Mechanism
• Budget

• Human Resources (Training)
• Research
• Involvement of Civil Society
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Information and Dissemination

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The Horizontal Axis consists of 4 Blocks which
deal with the following

• Womens Right
• Social
• Economic
• Political

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1.Womens Right Block

• Variables
• CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of all forms
  of Discrimination Against Women)
• Reservation for some countries who believe that
  some of the clauses are not relevant to them,e.g.
  the Muslim Law
• Culture and Religion change
• Other Islamic countries have ratified without any
  reservations

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Optional Protocol

• Complaints Procedure
• e.g if a woman feels that her rights are not
  respected in her own country, she can go outside
  her country- on an international level- and take
  the Government of her own country to Court, for
  abusing her rights.
• Have to prove that it does not work in your
  country
• Needs resources and social support
• Women has to be empowered enough

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• African Charter
• Platform for Human and Peoples Right
• 15 out of 53 African countries have ratified the
  protocol
• This protocol makes provision for all harmful
  practices
• Mechanism e.g the Beijing Platform
• To what extent can it help women gain access to
  such mechanism

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2. Social Block

• Violence against Women
• Access to law easier to men than women
• Laws and Policies are ratified but its the way
  they are implemented which causes problems
• Constraints men and women differently
• HIV/AIDS Women
• Private Sector more active regarding policies
• Think about the bottom line
• Need Government to implement Policy about
  HIV/AIDS

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• Education
• Gender related dropout
• Gap between academic performances of girls and
  boys

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3. Economic Block

• Engendering National Poverty Reduction Strategy
  NPRS
• Equal access to land
• Equal land distribution Policy?
• Quality of land
• Should be determining the needs of men and women
• Inheritance- men always inherit the best
  possible-culture/norms
• Different needs have to be considered- equal
  outcomes
• Men assumes he know what women want

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4. Political Block

• UN 1325 Conflict resolution
• Beijing Participation for Action
• Measure its effectiveness and accessibility
• Policies already in place- affirmative action
  principles within different sectors
• Mauritius member of SADC and AU signed and
  discussed by Head of State
• But quotas pertaining to equality of men and
  women in parliament are still not reached

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• Womens participation in National Strategic Plan
• Political Commitment
• Gender Issues
• Stereotypes e.g of choice of gender related
  activities attributed to female employer ad ICT
  meeting attributed to the male employer to attend

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• Empowerment of women in the I.T Sector
• Courses offered at hours not convenient to most
  women-housewives- marginalised
• Constraints for Women
• Funding
• Time
• Responsibilities( Household, Family)