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Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Commission on Gender Equality 20 Year Review & Africa Gender Development Index Report
24 Oct 2017
The Commission on Gender Equality carried out two presentations; the 20 Year Review of the CGE Final Report and the African Gender Development Index Report. The Human Sciences Research Council conducted a study for the purposes of the first report. Legislation, customs and practices, Information and education programmes, Gender-related initiatives ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
Women in the Presidency Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
18 Oct 2017
2017 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Joint Multi-Party Women’s Caucus Steering Committee allowed the Portfolio Committee on Women in the Presidency to meet briefly to adopt the Budget Review Recommendations Report.
The Secretariat presented the draft report. A concern had been raised in the Committee that even ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
International Women’s Conference: Report
18 Oct 2017
The Committee discussed a report on the recently held International Women’s Conference and the Changing World of Work – Giving Effect to the Sixty-First Session of the Commission on the Status of Women Conference Report. Key issues at the Conference included the Poverty Trends in South Africa Report released by ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Women in the Presidency Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report
17 Oct 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Women in the Presidency’ Budgetary Review and Recommendation Report (BRRR), considering the Department of Women in the Presidency’s Annual Report and consequent matters that emerged. In the meeting, it was mostly observations and recommendations of the BRRR that were discussed, however, other concerns were raised and ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women 2016/17 Annual Report: Committee Staff briefing
10 Oct 2017
Committee Members met for the first hour, after which the Department of Women was meant to attend for a discussion on their Annual Report. Because the Department was running late, the meeting was adjourned early, leaving time only for a presentation on the analysis and assessment of the Report by ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women in the Presidency + CGE 2016/17 Annual Reports, with AGSA, Researcher and Content Adviser input
4 Oct 2017
The Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) briefed the Committee on the budget review and recommendations process, which focused on ensuring that strategically, accountability was achieved and service was delivered accordingly. It highlighted that based on the financial statements of the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE), the AG had issued ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Commission for Gender Equality Quarter 1 performance
5 Sep 2017
Still basking in the glory of Women’s Month and being showered with compliments, it was a good encounter for the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) briefing the Portfolio Committee on Women in the Presidency. Not having the clout it should, as a Constitutionally Established Body, was a major concern. The ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
Chapter 9 Institutions amalgamation; Violence Against Women & Children Programme of Action; Trafficking in Persons SAPS statistics, with Min of Social Development & Deputy Min of Labour
31 Aug 2017
Approximately 40 women Members of Parliament were in attendance at the start of the Joint Multi-Party Women’s Caucus meeting, with numbers swelling to about 50 as the meeting progressed. The establishment of the Joint Multi-Party Women’s Caucus as a member of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians Chapter had been initiated by ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women in the Presidency on Quarter 1 performance
22 Aug 2017
Despondency about whether the situation with unachieved targets would ever change was expressed when the Department of Women in the Presidency (DOW) presented the report on its first quarterly performance. The Department had spent 22.3% of their budget -- R45.9 million of the appropriated R206.1 million - but out of ...
Police
Domestic Violence Act annual reports
21 Jun 2017
The Committee was briefed by the Civilian Secretariat for Police on the statistics relating to the implementation of the Domestic Violence Act (DVA) as required on a bi-annual basis by the legislation. Despite previous outstanding reports, the reports tabled and discussed in the meeting showed that there were significant challenges ...