This project contributes to closing gender gaps in Sub-Saharan Africa through supporting the AU and RECs to promote women leadership, representation and participation in decision making, promote women’s economic empowerment, and improve responses to sexual and gender-based violence and knowledge management.

In addition, the project aims to improve the capacity of the AUC/RECs to monitor the ratification, domestication and implementation of legal instruments on gender and use an evidence-based approach to gender equality and women’s empowerment.