Alice Banze, is a trained social scientist with a career in civil society organizations like

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, and Gender Links and government. She is the Executive Director of Gender and Sustainable Development Association and a member of the

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-supported African Women Leaders Network. In December 2020, Banze was elected member of the National Elections Commission with the support of the Women's Forum, an umbrella grouping of Mozambican women’s rights organizations.

Background and education

Alice Banze was born and raised in

Maputo, Mozambique Maputo (), formerly named Lourenço Marques until 1976, is the Capital city, capital, and largest city of Mozambique. Located near the southern end of the country, it is within of the borders with Eswatini and South Africa. The city has a popul ...

. Banze attained a Diploma in Social Science from the Francisco Mayanga Secondary School. She then pursued a Bachelors Degree in Law from the Eduardo Modlane University. Banze has a Degree in Social Sciences from Eduardo Mondlane and

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. She has undergone further training in research skills, methods and methodologies on the Feminization of Poverty Research project as a partner investigator at The Centre of Research Studies, Canberra Australia and also Strategic Planning and Change Management at

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Sandton, South Africa Sandton is an upscale commercial and residential district north of the city of Johannesburg, South Africa. It forms part of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. The name of the city came from the combination of two of its suburbs, ...

Career

Banze served as the National Coordinator of the Austrian North-South Institute for Development Cooperation between 1997 and 2000. She then worked with

in various capacities. First serving as the Gender and Advocacy Coordinator between 2001 and 2007, she was then assigned to work as the Regional Gender Service Coordinator still with

, a role she has served in from 2007. She has also served as the Acting Gender Justice and Governance Lead, Pan African Program at Oxfam from 2011. Banze was the Gender, Environment and Climate Change Advisor to the Minister of Environment in Mozambique, implementing the Gender, Environment and Climate Change Strategy with focus on empowerment of women and communities on the best way of use and of Natural Resources to adapt to the Climate Change negative impacts. Banze is the Lusophone Executive Director for Gender Links managing Angola and

Mozambique Mozambique (), officially the Republic of Mozambique ( pt, Moçambique or , ; ny, Mozambiki; sw, Msumbiji; ts, Muzambhiki), is a country located in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi ...

Lusophone Countries. Banze resigned three days after being appointed the Spokesperson for the National Elections Commission (CNE).

Works

Books

Banze is one of the authors of the

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(SADC) Gender Protocol 2014 Barometer as she is the

Country Barometer Author. She also co-edited The African Women's Protocol: Harnessing a Potential Force for Positive Change with Rose Gawaya, a book by Rosemary Semufumu Mukasa.

Activism

Most of the work that Banze has focused on has been majorly centered around Gender Equality. She has done this by training numerous women leadership roles as well as advocating for equal representation of women in all spheres in her country. She has also worked on the equality of Women Rights.

References

External links

* * https://lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/410769?ln=en * https://africa.unwomen.org/en/news-and-events/stories/2021/03/ten-african-women-leaders-we-admire {{DEFAULTSORT:Banze, Alice People from Maputo Women academics by nationality 21st-century Mozambican women politicians 21st-century Mozambican politicians Women in law Women social scientists Oxfam people Mozambican activists Women's rights activists Eduardo Mondlane University alumni University of Pretoria alumni Mozambican women writers