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Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
CGE Reports: State of Shelters in SA, National GBV structure, Policing violence against women
9 Mar 2021
Video: Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, 09 March 2021
State of Shelters in South Africa
Accounting for work in Progress? Assessing progress on the establishment of a national coordinating structure on gender based violence
Policy Brief 18: Policing violence against women-assessing local police stations
The Commission ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Roll-out & implementation of Sanitary Dignity Programme: FS, NW & KZN briefing
5 Mar 2021
Video: Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, 05 March 2021
The Committee convened on a virtual platform to be briefed by the Free State, North West and KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Education Departments on the rollout and implementation of the Sanitary Dignity Programme.
In the Free State, service providers ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Commission for Gender Equality 2020/21 Quarter 3 performance
2 Mar 2021
In a virtual meeting, the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) presented to the Committee its Quarter 3 performance report for 2020/21. The CGE Chairperson highlighted that the Commission had continued to improve, reaching most of its targets during the quarter. The CEO said that CGE would fulfil all its outstanding ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
NYDA Quarter 3 2020/21 performance, with Deputy Minister
23 Feb 2021
Audio: NYDA Quarter 3 2020/21 performance
The National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) briefed the Committee on its quarter three performance report for the 2020/2021 financial year. The meeting took place on a virtual platform. The Chairperson commended the NYDA and the Department of Basic Education (DBE) on their job ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Committee Minutes
18 Feb 2021
Video: Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
In a virtual meeting, the Committee considered and adopted several of its 2020 meeting minutes.
The Committee discussed the importance of staying on top of minutes so that they did not pile up. This was important for Members to remember ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
DWYPD 2021 Quarter 3 performance; with Deputy Minister
16 Feb 2021
Video: Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, 16 February 2021
The Deputy Minister praised the President's State of the Nation Address (SONA) in tackling GBV, supporting women, and working towards gender equality as well as empowering youth and people with disabilities which their mandate. She noted the ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
NYDA Board recommendations: referral from Speaker
9 Feb 2021
Video: PC on Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities and Select Committee on Health and SS, 09 Feb 2021
Tabled Committee Reports
The recommendation process for National Youth Development Agency (NDYA) board members was under scrutiny in the virtual joint meeting of the Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth and Persons ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Disabilities Rights Framework & Disability Bill: SALRC & Department briefing
3 Feb 2021
Video: Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities,
The South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC) gave a presentation to the Committee on project 148: domestication of the United Nations Convention on the rights of people with disabilities. The SALRC received a request to investigate the domestication of the ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Sanitary Dignity Programme implementation
2 Feb 2021
Video: Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities 2 Feb 2021
13 Oct 2020: Sanitary Dignity Programme implementation
The Committee convened on a virtual platform to receive presentations from the different provincial departments of social development on their Sanitary Dignity Programme Implementation.
Northern Cape first outlined its programme ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
DWYPD Budgetary Review Recommendations Report
3 Dec 2020
Video: PC Women, 3 December 2020
2020 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Committee was convened on a virtual platform to adopt its Budgetary Review and Recommendation Report (BRRR).
Members emphasised the importance of strengthening Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) process and ensuring there was a timeframe in place, supply ...