THE PERSPECTIVES OF GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE AFRICAN CONTINENT:

AN ANALYSIS OF THE FIFTEEN YEARS OF THE RATIFICATION OF MAPUTO PROTOCOL IN NAMIBIA (2004-2019)

Abstract

The search for equality between men and women is not current but has been intensified each year as civil society, international and national organizations, and the states combat gender inequality. In the African context, this fight has put the continent in an emphasized position in the international scenario. Put together by the African Union, in 2003, the Maputo Protocol has the objective to ensure that the rights of African women are achieved. On this matter, the forty countries that, until today, ratified the protocol, compromised to guarantee the full participation of women in African development. Thus, the present article seeks to analyze the perspectives of gender in the African continent through the ratification of the Maputo Protocol in Namibia. For that, it pursues to comprehend, first, which are the perspectives of gender and gender equality present in the African continent, from a bibliographic review of these concepts with authors who discuss this theme from the African reality. After, it will be made a documental analysis of the Protocol, showing its main politics to the promotion of gender equality. Finally, it will be analyzed for its implementation in the African state of Namibia, in the period from 2004 to 2019, presenting the main data about the question of gender in the country to verify if there was any progress since the ratification of the Maputo Protocol.