Gender Encounter

The Horn of Africa Capacity Building Programme (HOACBP) is a regional development initiative, financed by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and co-managed by Oxfam Québec and Oxfam Canada. The programme’s mandate is to promote the principles of equity and participatory development in the Horn of Africa. It supports groups and organizations -civil society organizations and public governing structures – that are grounded at the local level, engaged in non-formal education, information/communications, gender and justice.

This Gender Encounter – organized by HOACBP for its partners and development allies at the Plaza Hotel in Khartoum, Sudan, from 5 – 9 December 2003 _ is the eighth regional initiative that the Programme has undertaken in and for the Horn ofAfrica region since 1997. Apart from the Nairobi Encounter, HOACBP’ first regional initiative, all previous ‘encounters’ have taken place in Ethiopia. The Khartoum Gender Encounter, therefore, is significant for HOACBP and its partners in terms of the increased potential for regional activities and outreach in other Horn countries.