AU experts on Women and Gender Affairs will submit their recommendations to establish the African Union Women’s Trust Fund feasibility study, the African Union Commission Gender Action Plan, and the Roadmap for the African Women’s Decade: 2010-2020 to Ministers in charge of gender and women’s affairs on November 21st. In order to disseminate and monitor the implementation of the Action Plan the meeting proposed using faith-based groups, Imams, and the media to sensitize and transmit messages to women and the society at large.

African Union (AU) experts of Women and Gender Affairs ended their meeting which started on November 13 in Banjul, The Gambia by adopting the African Union Women’s Trust Fund feasibility study, the African Union Commission Gender Action Plan, and the Roadmap for the African Women’s Decade: 2010-2020. www.africa-union.org/root/au/index/index.htm