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MATASHANE-MARITE
Keiso MATASHANE-MARITE
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa
Gender Affairs Officer, GPSPD- Gender Equality & Women's Empowerment Section
Keiso Matashane-Marite is a Gender Affairs Officer at the Gender Equality & Women's Empowerment Section in the Gender, Poverty & Social Policy Division. Her areas of expertise include socio legal research, gender analysis, political and public policy analysis, in health, human rights and the social sector. Prior to joining ECA, she worked as a National Coordinator and Chief Researcher for Women and Law in Southern Africa Research and Education Trust in Lesotho. She was also a part-time lecturer at the National University of Lesotho, where she taught sociology. Recent publications include Gender and Elections in Lesotho, Beyond Inequalities: Women in Lesotho, Ringing Up the Changes Gender in Southern Africa Politics, Family belonging for women in Lesotho, sexual violence in Lesotho and lobola and its implications for women's reproductive rights. Ms. Matashane-Marite holds a Masters Degree in Public Health from the University of Wales, United Kingdom.
Areas of Expertise
Gender Equality And The Empowerment Of Women, Public Policy

Education:

Postgraduate diploma
Technology
Loughborough University
Post Graduate Diploma in Technology and development - Project Preparation for Environmental Engineering
Master's Degree
Public Health
University of Wales, College of Medicine
Public Health
Bachelor's degree
Sociology
National University of Lesotho
Sociology & Public Administration

Language:

English

Publication:

A Journey of a Gender Advocate; From Lesotho to the United Nations

Global Africa into the Twenty First Century (ed) Hodgson L and Byfield A

University of California Press

2017
Gender and Elections in Lesotho: Perspectives on the 2002 Elections EISA

EISA Research Report No 4 2004 co-authored with Letuka P and Mapetla M

Electoral Institute of Southern Africa

2007
Ringing Up the Changes: Gender in Southern African Politics

Lowe-Morna (ed) Gender Links South Africa 2003

Gender Links

2003
Lobola: Its Implications for Women’s Reproductive Rights

co -Authored with Mvududu, Joseph, Letuka, Kaunda, Tembo, Hlanze, Chileshe and Nzira

WLSA /Weaver Press

2002
A Critical Analysis of Women’s Access to Land

Co- authored with Dingake, Aphane, Gwaunza, Bbuku-Chuulu, Mvududu, White and Andrade

WLSA

2001
Beyond Inequalities, Women in Lesotho 1997

Co authored with P Letuka and BM Morolong

WLSA & SARDC

1997
Picking Up the Pieces; Widowhood in Southern Africa

WLSA Working Paper No 13 Co authored with Aphane, Gwaunza, Kasonde-Ng'andu, Kidd, Mvududu and Temba

WLSA

1995
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