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BRANCH : Women’s Empowerment & Gender Equality

This report highlights achievements, targets met, challenges faced, and budget status in promoting women’s empowerment and gender equality. Key activities include facilitating women's projects, hosting activism events, drafting legislation, and combating gender-based violence. 8

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BRANCH : Women’s Empowerment & Gender Equality

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  1. BRANCH : Women’s Empowerment & Gender Equality QUARTERLY REPORT 3nd Quarter 2012/13 October – December 2012

  2. PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES To facilitate and coordinate women’s empowerment and gender equality through mainstreaming in all government’s policies, programmes and governance processes as well as advocating, lobbying and awareness raising To monitor compliance and conduct impact assessments on women’s empowerment and gender equality as well as compile reports to meet national, regional, continental and international commitments To provide an integrated approach for institutional support and capacity development Added mandate/ responsibility: Facilitate and coordinate the fight against gender based violence

  3. MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS • Facilitated IDCs support of eight women business projects • Successfully convened the Opening of the 16 Days of Activism in the Northern Cape • Convened a Summit on GBV as part of the 16 Days of Activism and the review of the 365 Days National PoA • National Council Against Gender Based Violence established and launched • Draft Monitoring & Evaluation Framework in place • Draft Gender Mainstreaming Framework in place • WEGE Bill: • Bill was gazetted for public comments and all written comments were collated, analysed and integrated into the draft bill. • The Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) and the Memorandum of Objects and Cabinet Memo were finalised in preparation for Cabinet processes for approval. • Finalised processes with the OCSLA on the draft bill.

  4. MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS

  5. MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS

  6. TARGETS NOT ACHIEVED Q2

  7. TARGETS NOT ACHIEVED Q2

  8. TARGETS NOT ACHIEVED Q2

  9. TARGETS NOT ACHIEVED Q2

  10. TARGETS NOT ACHIEVED Q2

  11. BRANCH CHALLENGES REQUIRING INTERVENTION Referrals to implementing Departments for project funding, technical support and data and information for reporting obligations are not timeously attended to; and this often lead to missed opportunities for women projects and deadlines for submissions Lack of sufficient human capacity and requisite skills Lack of sufficient funding to effectively implement operational plan Too many ad hoc tasks / supplementary tasks

  12. BUDGET REPORT: WEGE Q3 Note: an estimate R 4 020 000 (to be confirmed) was re-allocated from WEGE Budget to other items elsewhere in the department post adjustments and transfer of funds to stabilise Departmental finances/ status and correct over-expenditures. The latest expenditure and balance for COE was not available to us at the time of finalising this report

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