The promotion of gender equity and the empowerment of women has been recognized as a key millennium development goal. To meet this goal, the Kingdom of Swaziland has developed a gender policy to provide guidelines for attaining gender equity in the Kingdom.

The development of appropriate policies and strengthening of national gender machineries to fully undertake the challenging mandates are crucial actions particularly in addressing structural relationships of inequality between men and women.

The National Gender Policy provides guidelines, indicators and a framework to assist stakeholders to achieve gender equity as provided for in the Constitution of the Kingdom of Swaziland and other relevant International instruments that the country has ratified.

The policy will create strategic synergies with various stakeholders to facilitate effective and efficient implementation of commitments that will make a difference in the lives of all people at all levels.