Presentation to the Portfolio Committee
on Women In the Presidency
Quarter 1 (April- June 2016)
6 September 2016
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Overview of performance
• Progress on APP
• Reflections on SONA
• Conclusion
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Introduction
The current reporting period assess work undertaken by the organisation
during the first quarter of the financial year as contained in the APP that was
finalised and lodged with relevant authorities in the previous financial year.
Primary focus for the quarter over and above implementation of APP, was to
ensure drafting, finalisation and submission of the annual financial statements
and draft annual report to the AGSA and NT.
The report will therefore give a brief account and feedback on audit
outcomes, highlight achievement or attainment of targets against what was
planned for the period in the APP, interrogate spending patterns and trends
as well as overall functions of the institutions.
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Overview of function of organisation
The current reporting period marks the beginning of the financial, it is during
this period that planning and ground work takes place; holding meetings
with prospective partners, selecting sectors that will be monitored and
engaging with various stakeholders to set collaboration opportunities that will
be implemented as the year progresses.
In terms of internally audited outcomes on basis of evidence attached
overall achievement for the quarter is 60%. This percentage of achievement
is an improvement from last financial year’s one which was at 54% for the
same period. Below tale highlights achievements per strategic objectives
because as much as overall of 60% has been realised, there are areas that
need intervention due to the fact that they are lagging behind.
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Overview: Percentage of Achievements per SOs
SUMMARY OF FIRST QUARTER PERFROMANCE INFORMATION
Strategic Objective number
Planned quarterly
targets
Achieved quarterly
targets
Unachieved quarterly
targets
Percentage of
achieved quarterly
targets
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81,25%
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77,78%
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0,00%
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82,35%
Total achieved targets for first quarter
60,35%
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For the reporting period the newly conceptualised flagship programme for PEI
commenced, the programme entailed drafting resource books on concepts used in
gender mainstreaming using framework of SDGs for gender mainstreaming in
municipalities. Two resource books have been developed and officers together with
provincial coordinators trained human rights based approach and on gendermainstreaming using the SDGs framework.
The PEI unit continued to provide technical assistance and training TUT in GP; Limpopo
and Mpumalanga on gender mainstreaming. The request for training and technical
assistance came as part of process of the university working on the recommendations
that emanated from the gender transformation hearings held in the previous financial
year. Some of the programmes for this quarter concentrated on matters related to
youth month, a PSA was flighted in various SABC stations with free airtime totalling
R750 000.00 being utilised.
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During the period under review, important stakeholder engagements focussing
on local government elections and women’s representation in political parties
took place as well as critical engagements with the justice cluster on findings
and recommendations on the legal department monitoring of courts report.
22 resolutions were reached in this meeting which hopefully will address some of
the issues and/ or findings on court monitoring; such as NPA relooking into
withdrawal of domestic violence cases and looking into how to possibly effect
non-withdrawals, revision of training manuals for equality court clerks,
establishing victim support in domestic violence courts similar to those in the
sexual violence courts etc
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Key issues surfacing across provinces relate to Estate, domestic violence and
substance abuse, unemployment, imbalance of work at home (time use) etc.
Some of the provinces were able to hold stakeholder engagements which is a
beginning of a series of consultations with various stakeholders in order to identify
issues pertinent matter relating to gender equality that affect various provinces.
This body of work will be utilised in September/October for strategic planning
processes and long term planning that the Commission will be embarking on
when current strategic plan document expires.
As was indicated in the previous quarters there has generally been further
systems improvement put in place in order to deal with weaknesses that were
previously identified by the AGSA on the previous audit outcomes. These
improvements will highlighted when the report is formally presented by AGSA.
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Overview of Performance
• It is imperative to highlight that communications unit has popularised
the work of the commission through documentaries, PSAs flighted
during 16 days and social media campaigns. These initiatives highlight
the great work that can be achieved when strategic partnerships are
entered into. ( there were no costs involved).
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STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 1
SUB-STRATEGIES
To ensure the creation and implementation
of an enabling legislative framework that
promotes the attainment of gender equality.
1. To monitor and evaluate the promotion of gender equality and
any relevant policies and practices of the public and private
sector and report to Parliament
2. To initiate and review for the improvement of the legislative
framework in all spheres of government that impact on priority
areas of gender equality
3. To conduct periodic performance assessments of priority
Ministries, State institutions, Government departments, political
parties and the private sector, on the implementation of
applicable legislation and policies that impact on gender equality
4. To evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of the
national justice facilities for gender discrimination
6. To convene direct dialogues with relevant policy makers at
national and provincial level on recommendations to promote
gender equality contained in research reports and research
activities
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Progress on SO 1
Submissions made
for legislative and
policy enhancement
• For the better part of the reporting period Parliament
has rose for election processes. The PLU worked on 4
submissions to the SALRC on witch Craft, submission
to DoJ on National Action Plan to Combat Racism,
Racial discrimination and Xenophobia and related
Intolerance.
• SALRC submission on Family Disputes, which seeks to
synergize dispute resolutions mechanisms on various
statues such as Divorce Act, Children’s Act and
Uniform Rules of Courts
Auditing
Implementation of
the Victims Charter
• The Commission in preceding years undertook
assessment of this area of work and had made
recommendations to departments that had specific
obligations as far as victims of crime are concerned.
Currently research department is assessing whether
the recommendations that were highlighted have been
taken forward and actioned by the DoJ; NPA and
SAPS. The team has finalized draft plan outlining scope
of assessments and finalized the audit tool to be
administered in the second quarter .
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Progress on SO 1
Gender
barometer
report that
assess the
status of
gender
policies and
practices in
private and
public
sector
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• The web based tool will continue to be
administered within the mining sector to assess
gender mainstreaming. In the last financial year
assessments were done on Anglo American &
Rainbow Minerals.
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• For this financial year focus is on Sibanye Gold
and Exxaro Resources Ltd. Field work has
commenced on Sibanye Gold, with briefing
sessions having been held with leadership in
management and labour Unions
• There has been delays with Exxaro as there
seemed to be reluctance on management.
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Progress on SO 1
Assessing 365 NAP
on GBV and
supporting structures
Court monitoring
Policy dialogues
conducted on findings
in research reports
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• The focus for this financial year is on SAPS; looking at
programmes they have put in place to combat GBV and to get a
sense of how their process of statistical review is undertaken in
order to ascertain certainty of the stats that get reported at
National Level. Three police stations have been selected for
each of the following provinces: EC;NW,LP & GP
• The Department held a meeting with various departments within
the Justice Cluster to look into the findings of last financial year’s
reports and recommendations. The meeting came up with
resolutions which the CGE will monitor its implementation
thereof.
• The first quarter of the financial year is concerned with drafting
Policy Briefs out of the finalised research reports of the previous
financial year. The briefs make it easier to look at critical Policy
issues during policy dialogues which are scheduled to start in
the second quarter.
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Progress on SO 1
Consultations with
stakeholders on
findings of provincial
EE hearings held
• EE hearing will be held with Companies within the private sector.
Questionnaires have been dispatched to various companies soliciting
relevant preliminary information that will help when they appear to account
before the Commission.
• The department drafted and dispatched questionnaires to Rhodes,
UKZN, WITS and UCT. All entities have responded. The department
will analyse the information in Q2.
• A consultative forum with the Universities engaged with I the last FY
was held on the 1 June 2016 to assess how they are doing on
recommendations made
Gender Transformation
Investigation report
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Assessment of Women’s
Representation in political
Parties
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• A consultative dialogue was held with Political parties sensitize
and engage on gender mainstreaming and previous findings &
recommendations on Commission’s report.
• Political parties manifestos and party nomination processes
and candidates list have been analysed and the second phase
of elections monitoring will be finalized in the 2nd Q after
August Polls
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STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 2
SUB-STRATEGIES
To protect and promote gender
equality by engaging with
relevant stakeholders to
educate and raise awareness
on issues of gender equality,
challenge patriarchal
perceptions and stereotypes
and take action against
infringements of gender rights
through the implementation of
appropriate redress.
1. To timeously investigate complaints of violations of
gender rights and identify appropriate redress
2. To Initiate investigations of systemic violations of gender
rights in the public and private sector and identify
appropriate redress
3. To develop of a coordinated programme to promote
equality
4. To initiate interventions for sustainable development
and promotion of gender equality by addressing
violations in the social cultural political economic security
and human rights dimension
5. To collaborate with organs of state, civil society and
other institutions for the effective development,
protection, promotion and attainment of gender equality
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Progress on SO 2
180 complaints
received and dealt
with in terms of the
complaints manual
Legal outreach and
clinics conducted
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•In the pervious FY, legal unit closed the year with 375
pending cases. For the current period 183 complaints
against a target requirement of 180 files per quarter.
It must be noted that there are recruitment processes
underway for FS;KZN;NC offices. Currently head
office and other provincial legal personnel are
assisting these provinces.
•For the reporting period in collaboration with public
education and information, the department
conducted 22 outreach and legal clinics.
•There has been a slight decrease in number of
outreach clinics conducted and this is due to
vacancies in NC and KZN for legal officers. FS
outreach were affected by political unrest in
specific areas that were targeted for the quarter.
Provinces that could not reach the required targets
have already put plans in plans to ensure that they
catch-up.
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Province
Brought
Forward Opened Files
Closed files
Files pending
files
Gauteng
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Head Office
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Limpopo
42
27
38
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Western Cape
43
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18
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Mpumalanga
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19
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North West
51
27
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Free State
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KwaZulu-Natal
72
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78
Eastern Cape
38
36
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44
Northern Cape
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Total
375
183
181
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Analysis of Complaints
Complaints under the category of others still remain high as in preceding periods. This category
includes walk-ins or telephonic complaints, where members of the public are given advise or
intervention required is immediate and as such does not warrant opening of file and/ or
prolonged investigations. Maintenance complaints are the highest dealt with for the period
under review. And the NW province has opened the most of files related to maintenance
issues. Gender discrimination, estates. Divorces and domestic violence matters also form part
of the most cases dealt with.
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As previously reported 22 outreach clinics were held out of a target of 27 for
the quarter. This is against previous achievement of more than 27 for the
previous period in the last financial year
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4th
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 There are various issues that come up or get identified as problems in
various communities during the legal and outreach clinics, ranging from
harassment of the elderly, hate crimes, substance abuse, domestic
violence, high unemployment, early child marriages and processes to be
followed for maintenance claims, protection orders and how SAPS
executes them.
 A total of 53 files opened by the unit were opened during legal and
outreach clinics. As much as opening of files is not dependent on the
number of outreach clinics held, there seem to be improvement and this
could be attributed to the new way and processes that must be followed
before the outreach clinic is conducted.
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Progress on SO 2
Systemic
Investigations
undertaken
• Transformation of the judiciary: As was reported
in the previous quarter JSC had requested an
extension to submit their responses to the draft
report in the first quarter of the FY. This
submission has been submitted and analyzed.
The report is currently being edited.
• Decriminalisation of sex work: This matter is two
pronged; looking into the abuse of sex workers
at the hands of law enforcement officers and
the DoJ paper on legislative reform that should
be undertaken on this matter. The SALRC has
submitted report on the suggested reform to
DoJ and this has not yet been released for
public engagement. In the last quarter for the
Abuse case we had indicated that Information
was awaited from SAPS, this information was
submitted and the draft report has been
finalized and currently serving on various
committees within the Commission for quality
assurance.
Progress on SO 2
Systemic
Investigations
undertaken
• Maternal Health: DoH has indicated that it will
be undertaking its own investigation into
coerced sterilization matters as was raised in the
Commission’s draft report. The department has
appointed an advocate to look into the matter
and he has setup a meting with the Commission
in the second quarter.
• Uthukela
Maiden
Bursary
matter:
The
investigation report was finalized and lodged
with Parliament and disseminated to various
stakeholders including the respondents. The
Municipality has been given until the second
quarter to implement and report on the
recommendations highlighted.
Progress on SO 2
Coordinated
Programme with
targeted
stakeholders
Campaign on Human
Rights and gender
equality campaign
• Training manuals developed and education
officers trained on train the trainer Local
government programme, as highlighted in the
overview.
•A concept papers were developed to guide
provinces in implementing the campaigns.
•All provinces implemented both programmes
•The Human Rights month programme was further
supported by a comprehensive community radio
programme
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PEI
The PEI Department carried out a number of APP activities in the provinces as outlined
below, the unit worked collaboratively with legal on outreach legal clinics. Most of the work
for the reporting period concentrated on training on the SDGs and local government
programme and drafting resource books that will be utilised for this program. Various
sessions were held with traditional leaders as a process to gather information that will be
tested and engaged with when traditional leader’s hearings take place at a later stage.
The unit partnered with Eskom and held roundtable discussions with the focus being on
creating a conducive environment and identifying key and pertinent issues the Eskom’s
Women Advancement Programme should take into account and work on in order to support
and provide women with a conducive environment.
•Critical gender issues highlighted by various engagements with vast stakeholders relate to
50/50, gender budgeting lack of commitment towards implementing EE, sexual harassment
and bullying at schools. Property rights for young royal women etc
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People reached during reporting period
Province
Male
Female
Total
Eastern Cape
160
238
398
Free State
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110
Gauteng
0
0
0
Kwazulu- natal
0
0
0
Limpopo
104
307
411
Mpumalanga
80
369
449
Northern Cape
72
95
167
North-west
140
260
400
Western Cape
158
400
558
TOTAL
757
1736
2493
Geographic areas covered during this period
Geographic areas covered during this
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Communications
This unit has utilised a number of partnerships and collaborated with
NEMISA, SABC, GCIS and Community television stations to ensure that 16
days of campaign takes place. The media campaign that was running
during this period took place through social media, community television,
radio PSAs. For this media campaign the SABC availed free airtime and
Nemisa made available their production resources in order to ensure that
production occurs for the radio adverts that were flighted on SABC radio
stations.
The unit worked closely with GCIS in order to roll out a viral campaign
which aimed to educate public and remind various stakeholders about
solutions that are at their disposal to deal with sexual violence and rape.
This was done through #didyouknow
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Communications
•Part of the work undertaken by the Unit is to renew partnerships and form new ones. For
this quarter the unit engaged with the existing strategic partners in order to ensure that
new projects for the new financial year are agreed upon.
•Swedish embassy was highlighted as one of prospective strategic partners after last
financial year’s competition which they were running and had approached the CGE to
be part of the judging process. Various meetings have been held to explore formal
partnership. The Embassy had promised that when the competition is done they will be
donating the paintings to the CGE as they relate to its mandate.
•The Communications Unit has utilised various media and communications channels and
strategies proactively to convey and disseminate critical messages to the general public,
but also to respond to issues ongoing public related to gender equality. For the current
reporting period (youth month) the unit partnered with SABC Foundation and Nemisa to
produce a youth month PSA which was aired on SABC radio stations. The PSA highlighted
the mandate of the Commission and encouraged use of the toll free number in order to
report gender discrimination and abuse
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Communications
• During this quarter the CGE contributed to public debates and made comments on
numerous issues of importance, ranging from virginity testing and awarding of bursaries
virgins, elections and women political representation, gender based violence and
sentencing of Oscar Pistorius.
•The Communications Unit helped to ensure that CGE was present in debates on these
issues, utilising a combination of media channels such as Press/Media Releases,
Media/Press Invitations, Interviews with Radio and TV stations, published Opinions
pieces/articles in newspapers and other electronic media. The Unit has also ensured that
these contributions are made in different languages, thus ensuring that the CGE’s
messages were conveyed to a potentially large audience of millions across the country
and in various communities.
•Media Coverage: There was a rise in coverage in the media as a result of the Uthukela
report in the month June. In this month, there were recurring stories on the Maiden Bursary
until the end of the month. Other stories linked to the work of the CGE included: Workshop
on elections and political parties.
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Communications
Social media trends
Trends on social media shows that the CGE still has a lot more conversations on Twitter as opposed to
other mediums. The trend is adequate due to the fact that twitter allows for immediate response by
the CGE to any issue that media or public might be commenting on.
The number of new followers on Twitter has grown to about 90 new followers from the previous
quarter. This means that there is continuous growth on the following. This growth comes as a result of
the Uthukela report. In other words, there was a correlation between the growth of followers and the
release of the report in the same month.
Facebook has improved in terms of the number of page views in the previous quarter. The page
views have grown by 35% from the previous quarter.
The coverage trends according to countries show that South Africans are on top of the list of
audiences, followed by the United States and United Kingdom. Amongst the African countries,
Nigerians tops the list, followed by Kenya.
In regards to sentiments expressed by social media users, there are more comments made by the
public on issues related to CGE as opposed to other forms of activities. This means that there more
social engagements rather than reviews or articles/blogs. This is good because it shows that
audiences are talking about CGE work.
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Communications
Branding
The EC office moved to the new premises and the unit has ensured that office
branding is done which is in line with the CGE branding manual.
The unit worked collaboratively with IT unit to create projects that relate to
online branding. This project looked into branding email signatures, creating a
link that will lead readers to the CGE website from emails, creating newsletter
link and highlighting various campaigns for the quarters utilising email banner.
Below is the sample for email signature and campaign banners:
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Media Coverage of CGE
During this quarter the CGE contributed to public debates and made comments on
numerous issues of importance, ranging from virginity testing and awarding of bursaries
virgins, elections and women political representation, gender based violence and
sentencing of Oscar Pistorius. The Communications Unit helped to ensure that CGE was
present in debates on these issues, utilising a combination of media channels such as
Press/Media Releases, Media/Press Invitations, Interviews with Radio and TV stations,
published Opinions pieces/articles in newspapers and other electronic media. The Unit
has also ensured that these contributions are made in different languages, thus ensuring
that the CGE’s messages were conveyed to a potentially large audience of millions
across the country and in various communities.
The graphic below shows the level of coverage that CGE received/generated during the
period under review, through articles, opinion pieces and related activities. It shows that
June had the highest level of coverage this is due the press briefing on the release of the
maiden salary report from legal department. Generally there has been improvement of
media coverage when compared with results for last quarter.
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Information Technology
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7Key Project elements have been completed successfully in line with the project
deliverables, with the exception of a formally documented hand over to the
commission. This will however be scheduled in the second quarter which will
include some detailed post project engagements, experience, lessons learned
as well as improvement areas for the current financial year which are detailed
in the five (5) year IT strategy.
Generally, quality of service, network performance, inter branch connectivity
and internet access has considerably improved with capability of accessing
resources securely through any device connected to the internet, faster
access to information and keeping critical business services operational at all
times.
National Treasury SCM circular No 6 of 2016/17 (Fixed line and Pbx Cost Containment Project) All
departments and constitutional bodies are requested to halt fixed line procurement, as cost
containment measures are undertaken by national treasury to reduce excessive government fixed
line costs through transversal contracts. ( this will therefore affect PBX: Voice over internet protocol;
VOIP)
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PROVINCIAL REPORTS
Introduction
During this reporting period, the Provincial offices formed partnerships as
vastly as possible to ensure that promotion of gender equality is
disseminated even at the grassroots where the information is needed. The
highlights worth mentioning, relate to the Free State which formed
partnership with PanSALB, among other departments, to ensure the
appropriate gender equality terminology, in translating the CGE Mandate
in the dominant vernacular so that the message does not get distorted
during dissemination. Most of the offices that still have vacant positions such
as Free State, KZN and Northern Cape are complaining that lack of
capacity derail them from being fully functional in implementing the APP.
They however appreciate the assistance and support they get from the
Head Office and other Provinces.
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two Organisations to be monitored this financial year. Most of the
Provinces have already identified and sent out the invitations and
questionnaires out to the Private Sector organisations that have are
invited for the Employment Equity hearings. Some provinces have
received confirmations from such organisations, while others still await
confirmations.
Northern Cape took initiative of enforcing proactive measures of fighting
gender based violence as one of the Provinces that range predominantly
high on GBV. North West on the other hand should be commended with
their idea of Stakeholder engagement and rolling it out across the
Province, which will popularise CGE hence, and increase the number of
cases reported. Collaboration with ESKOM is also acknowledged as it is a
right step forward and assists mainstreaming gender within Science and
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Progress on SO 3
Assessment Reports
• Still awaiting the State CEDAW report in order
to finalise it
Report on the African
Gender Development
Index- status report
• The final report has been submitted to UNECA
and still awaiting indication for final printing.
Women’s Ministry was given a questionnaire by
UNECA ( probably as a way to quality assure
CGE’ s report. ) For the reporting period a policy
brief was developed which will make
dissemination of the finding easy
Attendance at
International and regional
events
• None for the reporting period
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Progress against Annual Performance targets
Performance Information Tables 2016-2017.docx
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Conclusion
The above gives an indication of work undertaken against targets set at the
beginning of the financial year and highlights general effectiveness of the
organisation. The first quarter mainly is concerned with forging partnerships as a
measure for augmenting the funding difficulties and therefore various stakeholders
are met with a view to ensure collaborations etc
There is further a clear improvements on control issues and all the previous audit
issues have been dealt with. This will further be highlighted when the AGSA
presents the audit outcomes for the Commission. The work of the Commission has
steadily moved to level of excellence, and use of innovation and media to run
some of the programmes has been a highlight and signifies an improvement in
utilisation of media as a medium to educate and create a platform for
engagement.
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