15. Government should ensure tertiary education funding for women and girls and a guaranteed education fund must be put in place for this purpose. 16. Government must institute measures to restore the dignity and status of the teaching profession. 2. Land, Environment and Natural Resources Women demand that 1. They should be allowed to own communal land repealing s23 of the Constitution that limits this right. 2. There must be non discrimination in the allocation of land and other natural resources. 2. Marriages must be in community of property. Land and property must be owned jointly by parties in marriage. 3. Indigenous peoples must be able to benefit from the resources in their communities. E.g CAMPFIRE project, where what is earned through a natural resource must be ploughed back into that area and community. 4. Women must be able to participate more effectively in the planning, management and preservation of the environment and use of natural resources 5. There must be decentralisation of ownership and management of natural resources, for example water. This will result in closer and easier monitoring of the resource. 6. There should be an extensive land audit and land redistribution should seek to ensure that land is redistributed equitably to women and men. This should also take place in the urban areas to assess the ownership of houses by women in these areas. 7. There should be equal representation in the land commissions and committees. 8. Government ensures that women in both urban and rural areas get access to clean drinking water, sources of domestic fuel and a means to producing nutritious food. 9. Women must enjoy the right to a clean and healthy environment and this includes ensuring that proper standards followed for the storage, transportation and disposal of toxic waste. 3. Governance and Democracy Women demand that 1. There must be a quota system provided for in the Constitution put in place to ensure women’s representation in decision making with a 50% target for female represenation as set out in the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development.