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National Policy on Gender, 2021

Replaces 2006 Policy. Mainstreams gender; affirmative action targets.

Statutory basis

Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act 2015; CFRN §42

Replaces the 2006 National Gender Policy. Sets a 35% affirmative-action target for women in public-sector appointments — a target subject to a 2022 Court of Appeal mandamus judgment in the Women in Politics suit. Implementation is constrained by the persistent gender gap in elected office: the 10th National Assembly is 4% female, the lowest in any G24 country.

Other Welfare policies

Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Tier 4 · tertiary, flagged

Wikipedia only where primary is pending. Always labelled.