Sonke Gender Justice

Publication Type: Strategic & Operational Plans

  • Integrated Development Plan

    Integrated Development Plan

    Municipal Systems Act 2000 defines IDP as the principal strategic planning instrument for Municipalities. Key features of IDP must include

    Spatial analysis

    • This involves urban planning, transportation planning, and land use management.
    • The IDP can reverse spatial planning that caused disadvantage to communities that came from Apartheid

    Service delivery

    • S4(2) Municipal Systems Act provides for duty of the municipality to provide municipal services in a financially & environmentally stable manner

    Local Economic Development

    • Includes job creation, assisting with small businesses establishment providing training and workshops on establishment and running of small business

    Transformation and organizational Development

    • Municipalities this overall includes the improvement of quality of life of the municipal community through building up different facets of the community

    Financial management

    • There should be a money commitment to project plans. into S4(2) a clear budget should be set for the projects to be embarked on. It is therefore the right of the ward councillor and community member to ask, “How much has been allocated to…..?”

    Public Participation

    • S4(2) requires the municipality to encourage public participation. It is the responsibility of the Municipality to facilitate this process
    • This is not a side story or as an afterthought. The IDP needs to be built from the ground (the people) going up to the Municipality itself
    • Section 152 of the South African Constitution says that local government must “encourage the involvement of communities and community organisations in matters of local government”.

  • MenEngage Africa Strategic Plan 2024 – 2027

    MenEngage Africa Strategic Plan 2024 – 2027

    The MenEngage Africa (MEA) Strategic Plan for 2024-2027 presents a comprehensive and visionary roadmap towards the achievement of gender equality and transformative change across the African continent. Grounded in a rigorous analysis of the regional context and fortified by deep-rooted feminist principles, this strategy encompasses three core areas: Advocacy, Accountability, and Partnership. It is designed to address complex challenges, celebrate past successes, and foster a future where gender equality is not just an aspiration but a tangible reality.

    The MEA strategic plan is a result of an in-depth evaluation of our past efforts, acknowledging both achievements and persisting barriers. We are propelled by a collective commitment to break down the structural inequalities that have hindered progress, aiming for a future where gender equality is deeply woven into the fabric of society.

  • MenEngage Africa Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Strategic Plan 2023–2027

    MenEngage Africa Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Strategic Plan 2023–2027

    MenEngage Africa (MEA) is a network of women’s rights and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) activists, people with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) activists and networks, and civil society organisations that promote social justice and human rights. The vision of the MEA SRHR Strategic Plan is for women, girls, men, boys, and people with diverse SOGIESC to realise their rights to optimal health and well-being in Africa through four strategies summarised as Link, Learn, Improve and Influence. The Plan is underpinned by evidence and global and regional policy commitments and objectives, and the SRHR of girls and women in Africa, of different ages, religions, socio-economic status, sexual orientations, cultural associations and gender expressions, guided the content of the strategy. MEA is committed to advocating for gender transformation that will afford bodily autonomy and bodily integrity to all people free from coercion and discrimination.

  • MenEngage Africa Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Strategic Plan 2023–2027

    MenEngage Africa Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Strategic Plan 2023–2027

    MenEngage Africa (MEA) transforms gender inequality and its negative effects on sexual and reproductive health outcomes by involving men and boys as agents of change. MEA is part of the Global MenEngage Alliance and consists of a network of women’s rights and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) activists; and people with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) activists and networks; and civil society organisations that promote social justice and human rights.

    The vision of the MEA SRHR Strategic Plan is for women, girls, men, boys, and people with diverse SOGIESC to realise their rights to optimal sexual and reproductive health and wellbeing in Africa. The Plan will inform country networks on how to advocate for improved sexual and reproductive health and rights outcomes, and for societies free of gender inequality through four strategies summarised as Link, Learn, Improve and Influence. Under the MEA banner, each country network will be able to customise the MEA SRHR Strategic Plan to their local context without compromising on the sexual and reproductive principles, rights, quality, and minimum standards implied by the Plan. By standardizing country approaches, harmonious progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and other regional and global SRHR agendas is possible.

    This MEA SRHR Strategic Plan, like all MEA programmes and policies, is underpinned by evidence as well as global and regional policy commitments and objectives. The SRHR of girls and women in Africa, of different ages, religions, socio-economic status, sexual orientations, cultural associations and gender expressions guided the content of the strategy. During the development process, partners and bodies in the SRHR response were widely consulted for input. MEA is committed to advocating for gender-transformation that will afford bodily autonomy and bodily integrity to all people free from coercion and discrimination.

  • Sonke Gender Justice Strategic Plan: 2020-2024

    Sonke Gender Justice Strategic Plan: 2020-2024

    In the past year, Sonke Gender Justice (Sonke) has undertaken a journey of self-reflection. We assessed our performance against our Strategic Plan 2014-2019, during which time we commemorated our 10th year anniversary. We sought to examine our priorities for the next five years. In doing so we reflected on our strengths and challenges that emerged during the process. We explored the changing global context and the role and opportunities that Sonke has in influencing positive change over the next five years.

    Sonke envisions a world in which violence of any form is socially unacceptable and dramatically reduced; a world in which duty-bearers – multilateral agencies, governments, religious and traditional leaders, the private sector, community leaders – and womxn, men, and gender-non-conforming people take action to address violence. We support those who experience it and put in place national action plans and frameworks to prevent it. This requires rights, action, accountability, and sustainability which are the four key pillars that form the foundation for our
    work and that provide the continuity between our previous strategic plan and the current one.

    In Africa and globally, we strive for HUMAN RIGHTS, where individuals and communities take ACTION against gender injustice and violence, and seek interpersonal, community, and structural ACCOUNTABILITY for long-lasting, SUSTAINABLE change.

    Our strategic objectives for the next five years are a refinement rather than a new direction. We believe in what we are doing, and that change is indeed possible and that significant progress has already been made. We are therefore building on our strengths and successes, and committing to address the gaps while remaining flexible enough to respond to the evolving global human rights and gender justice agenda.

    Our Strategic Goal 2020-2024 is that Sonke, communities, and partners collectively take action and promote accountability for the protection and realisation of human rights and gender justice in Africa.

  • MenEngage Africa Strategic Plan 2019-2023

    MenEngage Africa Strategic Plan 2019-2023

    This document details the MenEngage Africa (MEA) Alliance Strategic Plan for the period 2019-2023 and describes its priorities, goals, objectives and aspired results. The plan is informed by the current discourse, knowledge and understanding from the men and masculinities and women’s rights fields as well as the lessons and knowledge that emerged from the MEA members and partners in the past years. This strategic plan also reflects on the Agenda 2030 and the African Agenda 2063 and other international and regional policy frameworks around the advancement of progressive feminist women’s rights and social justice agendas within social, economic, environmental justice and human rights movements.

  • Sonke Gender Justice Strategic Plan – Executive Summary

    Sonke Gender Justice Strategic Plan – Executive Summary

    The 2014-2018 strategic plan sets out how Sonke Gender Justice will build on past successes, expanding and deepening our reach to promote gender equality across Africa. Over the next five years, we aim to narrow the gap between transformation in theory and its practical implementation in communities.

    Sonke has expanded rapidly, establishing itself as an organisation that is sufficiently agile to respond quickly to key advocacy moments, but large enough to manage significant resources responsibly and effectively. Between 2010 and 2013, we cemented our role in promoting gender equality and reducing the spread and impact of HIV, receiving accolades for our work in Africa and internationally. A strategic review of the organisation, conducted by external consultants during 2012, confirmed that we exceeded all our targets set in the previous three-year plan, spanning 2010 to 2013.

  • Sonke Gender Justice Strategic Plan

    Sonke Gender Justice Strategic Plan

    The 2014-2018 strategic plan sets out how Sonke Gender Justice will build on past successes, expanding and deepening our reach to promote gender equality across Africa. Over the next five years, we aim to narrow the gap between transformation in theory and its practical implementation in communities.

    Sonke has expanded rapidly, establishing itself as an organisation that is sufficiently agile to respond quickly to key advocacy moments, but large enough to manage significant resources responsibly and effectively. Between 2010 and 2013, we cemented our role in promoting gender equality and reducing the spread and impact of HIV, receiving accolades for our work in Africa and internationally. A strategic review of the organisation, conducted by external consultants during 2012, confirmed that we exceeded all our targets set in the previous three-year plan, spanning 2010 to 2013.