CGE Presentation 12 August 2009

Our mandateSECTION 187 of the Constitution of South

Africa, Act 108 of 1996• Must promote for gender equality and the

protection, development and attainment of gender equality.

How should we execute this mandate?

• Monitor• Investigate• Research• Educate• Lobby• Advise and report issues concerning

gender equality

Thematic areas

• Gender and Poverty

• Gender based violence

• Gender, democracy and Good Governance

• Gender, Culture, Religion and Traditional Practices

• Gender, HIV and AIDS

• National Gender Machinery

What are the strategic goals for 2008-2013

GENDER AND POVERTY• In partnership with various stakeholders, monitors

the standards of living and quality of life of South African women, including female-headed households. In order to promote job creation, economic opportunities and to balance dependence on social grants, the CGE uses access to land, water, sanitation, transport infrastructure as key points. The CGE monitors, researches and educates around government strategies and programmes, particularly at local levels, specifically aimed at poverty eradication. The CGE makes annual submissions with recommendations to parliament and key departments in this regard

Cont.

GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE• Co-operating with strategic partners,

work towards the creation of a violence free society by significantly reducing gender-based violence

Cont.

DEMOCRACY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE• In partnership with civil society and

through improved frameworks and systems for monitoring, evaluation and reporting, the CGE becomes the national authority on compliance with the gender equality legislative and policy framework, gender mainstreaming and good practice

Cont.

GENDER, CULTURE, RELIGION AND TRADITIONAL PRACTICES

• The CGE evaluates the role which South African cultures, religion and traditions play in contributing towards gender inequality, work towards rectifying these inequalities and puts in place mechanisms for ongoing monitoring of gender transformation

Cont.

GENDER AND HIV AND AIDSNoting that the South African government is a

signatory to the 2001 UN Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and has pledged to create multi-sectoral strategies to reduce women’s and girl’s vulnerabilities to the pandemic, the CGE is to monitor and make recommendations on the gendered responsive nature of the existing HIV/AIDS legislation and programmes in terms of prevention, care treatment and support

Cont.NATIONAL GENDER MACHINERY(NGM)• The NGM consists of an integrated framework and set institutional

structures established to monitor, promote and mainstream gender equality in policies, programmes of governments (at all levels) and the National Assembly

• The main thrust of the CGE’s is manifold: 1. It has to work as part of the NGM 2. It must monitor the implementation, development and efficacy of

the NGM at all levels 3. CGE must use its mandate to remove blockages to

effective establishment and implementation of the NGM 4. CGE must draw attention to the links between the national legal

instruments and policies and the international conventions to which South Africa is party to

What are the strategic objectives ?

Theme: Gender and PovertyObjectives:1.The CGE in collaboration with strategic partners continues to develop a clear

conceptual framework for its gender equality and poverty focus-defining possible entries and monitoring points of government poverty reduction policies, strategies, and programmes to assess the gendered impact of poverty on the quality of life of women including female-headed households, bearing in mind the effects of various programmes on global climate change and biodiversity. The CGE will also develop gender sensitive tools of assessment

2.Using the outcome of objective 1, encourage the development and implementation of pilot gender equality and poverty programmes at improving access to key focal points in two provinces, monitoring the achievements of such pilots, and encouraging replication of successful aspects in other provinces

3. The CGE takes advantage of opportunities to collaborate with National Treasury and Stats SA on their longitudinal research processes, with review to ensuring that such studies take into account the impact of poverty on the quality of life of women, including female-headed households. The outcomes of theses studies are used as a basis for developing appropriate strategic responses to poverty linked to gender equality

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Theme: Gender-based violenceObjectives:1. Ensure that the national legislative and

policy frameworks comply with all international gender-based violence instruments/protocols to which the South African government is a signatory

2. Monitor enforcement of legislation seeking to address gender-based violence and improvement of effectiveness of service delivery

Cont.Theme: Democracy and Good GovernanceObjectives:1. Ensure that all national and provincial legislation has been assessed from a gender

equality perspective, that implementation of legislation for promoting and protecting gender equality is tracked and monitored, and that women have made qualitative inputs in such processes

2. The CGE devises a strategy and puts in place (internal) to increasingly monitor and track compliance with gender equality legislative and policy framework by national provincial and local government

3. Actively engage the judiciary and legal sector to promote gender equality and improve the status of women in the judicial system

4. Drawing on EE information from the Dept. of Labour, the CGE uses its full powers to review the policies and practices in business in the private sector, tertiary institutions and statutory bodies in order to ensure compliance with gender equality legislative and policy framework

5. Effective engagement with the media and advertising agencies with a view to enabling these institutions to become more gender sensitive and increase women’s representations with business and institutions

6. The CGE and its strategic and civil society partners hold political parties representations accountable to their manifest promises and challenge political parties to adopt a policy of 50/50 representation of women in politics, including leadership positions, to ensure greater representation and effective participation of women.

contTheme: Gender, Culture, Religion and Traditional practicesObjectives:1. Develop innovative campaigns in conjunction with civil society

partners and where appropriate, government, to raise awareness among women and traditional leaders about the mandate of the CGE, women’s rights and gender equality. Where applicable, adopt a targeted approach in terms of rural and/or informal settlements with CGE taking up legal test to further raise awareness

2. To engage the religious sector, civil society organisations, traditional leaders and traditional healers to develop a strategy to change gender perceptions, increase women’s representation and become more gender sensitive implementing their respective mandates

3. The CGE, following the creation of a conducive environment as envisaged in objectives 1 and 2 to develop instruments and monitoring mechanisms for reviewing among other gender policies and practices, women’s participation and representation and changes in institutional and changes in institutional culture, attitudes and perceptions in faith-based traditional and cultural institutions

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Theme: Gender and HIV/AIDSObjectives:1. CGE assesses in policy and implementation

terms the extent to which the Broad Framework for HIV/AIDS and STI Strategic plan for South Africa 2007-2011 reduces women’s and girl child’s vulnerability to HIV/AIDS

2. The CGE develops a strategy for ensuring that work undertaken by theme committees and programmes at both national and provincial levels have been reviewed from an HIV/AIDS gendered perspective

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Theme :National Gender Machinery (NGM)Objectives:1.To improve the efficacy and impact of the national

gender machinery and deliver gender equality2. The CGE monitors establishments,

implementation and efficacy of the NGM at all levels

3. To actively assess compliance with international protocols, conventions and treaties

What is expected from Research, Legal, PEI?

• To deliver on the mandate as outlined in the Constitution and the CGE Act

• To deliver on the strategic focus in the stratplan by ensuring the programmatic activities are aligned to the goals and objectives of the stratplan

• To produce quality, analytical reports on a monthly and quarterly basis

• To provide plenary with comprehensive analytical reports on programmatic work that speak to the strategic goals and objectives

• Efficiency and accountability • Impact assessment on delivery of workplans and

operational plans(POA’s)

Case Study: Theme: Gender democracy and Good Governance

Objective: The CGE and its strategic and civil society partners hold political parties representations accountable to their manifesto promises and challenge political parties to adopt a policy of 50/50 representation of women in politics, including leadership positions, to ensure greater representation and effective participation of women.

Implementation of the objective:Project : Elections project

Cont.• Project objectives:

– Obtaining by year-end 2008 political parties manifesto documents, as well as information related to their internal employment equity policies and practice.

– Analysing this information by the end of January 2009– Convening a national public meeting in February 2009, and a series of

selected provincial meetings, bringing senior representatives from political parties to respond to CGE analysis of party commitments to gender equality, and participating in a public debate.

– Establishing strategic partnerships to jointly convene the public meetings, such as SANEF and the OSW

– An information dissemination campaign, with possible presentations on findings to the IEC, Parliament and the EEC, and targeted media interventions.

• Project duration: January- Aug 2009

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Activities:– Engagement with political parties– Formation of Gender and Elections Consortium– Gender audit of party manifestos and lists– Media monitoring and interventions– Provincial monitoring of campaigning– Public dialogue– Elections day monitoring– Investigation of complaints– Meeting with IEC on elections monitoring and handing

over elections monitoring report

CEDAW Project underway

Purpose:- To produce a CGE report on the status of the

implementation of Cedaw in South Africa - To engage parliament on the CGE findings and

recommendationsThe project is still in a preparatory phase, CGE staff have

been trained, the details on how the collection and verification of data and ultimately producing a report will be in the draft project plan that will be available by next week.

The CGE plans to release a draft report by end November 2009.

Funding

MTEF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS:Year on Year Growth

2009/2010

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2010/2011

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2011/2012

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2012/2013

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2013/2014

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Approved budget

Year On Year Growth

48,634 51,512

5,9%

54,561

5,9%

57,835

6,0%

61,305

6,0%

The annual average growth in the budget of the CGE is 5,4 per cent compared with 11,2% in the Public Protector and 8,9 % in the SAHRC (The Constitutional Institutions under the Justice Vote)

MTEF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS:CGE - Total

COMMISSION ON GENDER EQUALITY

DEPARTMENT:Total

2009/2010 2010/2011 2011/2012 2012/2013 2013/2014

Compensation of employees 30,513,000 32,401,000 34,252,000 36,204,000 38,269,000

Goods and Services 17,027,000 18,605,000 20,063,000 21,251,000 22,468,000

Of Which - - - - -

Baseline 7,627,000 8,105,000 8,563,000 9,051,000 9,568,000

Contractual Payments 5,000,000 5,500,000 6,000,000 6,200,000 6,400,000

Programmatic Expenditure 4,400,000 5,000,000 5,500,000 6,000,000 6,500,000

Capital payments 1,094,000 506,000 246,000 380,000 568,000

Total 48,634,000 51,512,000 54,561,000 57,835,000 61,305,000

MTEF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS:National Office

2009/2010 2010/2011 2011/2012 2012/2013 2013/2014

Commissioners 7,476,000 7,939,000 8,391,000 8,870,000 9,375,000

Chairperson 1,528,000 1,623,000 1,715,000 1,813,000 1,916,000

National Office 25,176,000 26,599,000 28,228,000 30,001,000 31,883,000

Of Which

CEO 4,558,000 4,185,000 4,135,000 4,490,000 4,913,000

Finance and Administration 2,596,000 2,760,000 2,914,000 3,080,000 3,258,000

Human Resources 651,000 691,000 731,000 773,000 816,000

Information Technology 791,000 840,000 888,000 939,000 993,000

PEI 1,873,000 1,989,000 2,103,000 2,223,000 2,349,000

Legal services 2,934,000 3,115,000 3,294,000 3,481,000 3,679,000

Research 2,373,000 2,519,000 2,663,000 2,815,000 2,975,000

Contractual Obligations 5,000,000 5,500,000 6,000,000 6,200,000 6,400,000

Programmatic Expenditure 4,400,000 5,000,000 5,500,000 6,000,000 6,500,000

Total 34,180,000 36,161,000 38,334,000 40,684,000 43,174,000

MTEF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS:Regions

2009/2010 2010/2011 2011/2012 2012/2013 2013/2014

Western Cape 1,501,000 1,594,000 1,685,000 1,781,000 1,883,000

Eastern Cape 1,796,000 1,908,000 2,016,000 2,131,000 2,254,000

Northern Cape 1,461,000 1,553,000 1,641,000 1,735,000 1,834,000

Freestate 1,766,000 1,875,000 1,983,000 2,095,000 2,215,000

Gauteng 1,764,000 1,873,000 1,980,000 2,093,000 2,211,000

Mpumalanga 1,474,000 1,565,000 1,654,000 1,749,000 1,849,000

Kwazulu Natal 1,826,000 1,939,000 2,050,000 2,166,000 2,290,000

North West 1,376,000 1,461,000 1,545,000 1,633,000 1,726,000

Limpopo 1,490,000 1,583,000 1,673,000 1,768,000 1,869,000

Total 14,454,000 15,351,000 16,227,000 17,151,000 18,131,000