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This chapter explores the Southern African Development Community’s (SADC) gender equality project, which is embedded in its 2008 Protocol on Gender and Development. Using insights from the “three-legged equality stool” (Booth and Bennett, The European Journal of Women’s Studies, 9(4): 430–446, 2002) as an entry point, it examines the strategies underlying SADC’s gender equality project. Further, it discusses that project’s potential and challenges.
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Sahle, E.N. (2017). Promoting Gender Equality in the Era of Democracy and Constitutionalism in Southern Africa. In: Sahle, E. (eds) Democracy, Constitutionalism, and Politics in Africa. Contemporary African Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55592-2_4
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