a) Since its inception in 2010 the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) has, among other achievements:
Addressing youth unemployment requires an all-of-society and all-of-government approach to mainstreaming of youth employment across the different sectors of the economy. In this regard, a sector-wide youth skills development programme has been conceptualised to train young people in various skills to ensure they are employable and are also able to start businesses in priority sectors with high absorption capacity such as oceans economy, manufacturing, ...
The department developed the National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (NSP on GBVF) to provide a multi-sectoral, coherent policy and programming framework to strengthen a coordinated national response to the GBVF crisis by all of government and the whole of society.
A key activity under Pillar 4 of the NSP on GBVF is the establishment of local level rapid response teams in ...
1. Department of Women Youth and Persons with Disabilities (DWYPD):
Description |
2020/21 |
2021/22 |
2022/23 |
Total Amount |
R103 117.50 |
R109 029.82 |
R189 698.50 |
Name of Supplier |
Uvo Communication-Design-Print |
Jetline |
Mvuvhelo Events and Communications |
Number of Copies |
60 |
150 |
150 |
2. National Youth Development Agency (NYDA)
Description |
2020/21 |
2021/22 |
2022/23 |
Total ... |
The department employed one (1) young researcher for monitoring, evaluation and database management in the past financial year.
More »The department developed the National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (NSP on GBVF) to provide a multi-sectoral, coherent policy and programming framework to strengthen a coordinated national response to the GBVF crisis by government and the whole of society.
A key activity under Pillar 4 of the NSP on GBVF is the establishment of local level rapid response teams in every municipality ...
The department has adopted an all-of-society and an all-of-government approach to livelihoods restoration and wealth creation for unemployed women, youth and persons with disabilities through a step change to implement various projects to empower the identified categories of people in some of the poorest districts in the country. The aim of these projects is to skill and empower these categories of persons to be ...
The department does not keep a comprehensive database of persons living with disabilities as various government departments keep databases of persons with disabilities in line with the services they render.
Further, the department does not have a database of persons that require wheelchairs, nor does it provide and/or distribute wheelchairs as that falls within the mandate of the Department of Health. This part of ...
The annual priorities and targets for the 2023/24 financial year are a work in progress. To date, the department has achieved 81% of quarter 1 targets. Work continues toward achieving the annual priorities and targets by 31 March 2024.
More »The monitoring of the pervasive problem of drug abuse among young persons in the Republic is a competency vested with the Department of Social Development (DSD). Accordingly, this question may be directed to the Minister of Social Development for a comprehensive response.
Nevertheless, the Department of Women, Youth, and Persons with Disabilities (DWYPD) cooperates with the DSD on programmes that raise awareness on the ...