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EQUAL GENDER REPRESENTATION and PARTICIPATION IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT

EQUAL GENDER REPRESENTATION and PARTICIPATION IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT. BACKGROUND. SALGA is a body endorsed by the South African Constitution and is the recognized VOICE of Local government.

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EQUAL GENDER REPRESENTATION and PARTICIPATION IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT

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  1. EQUAL GENDER REPRESENTATION and PARTICIPATION IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT

  2. BACKGROUND • SALGA is a body endorsed by the South African Constitution and is the recognized VOICE of Local government. • SALGA is a voluntary organisation and obtains its funding from membership levies, government grant and donor funding. • SALGA has nine provincial associations led politically by the provincial chairperson and administratively by the deputy CEO. • SALGA has a total membership of all 284 municipalities. • SALGA is the employer body and represents 8 824 councillors and +120 000 municipal employees.

  3. The Gender and Women Empowerment Programme • The programme falls under the Strategic Affairs Directorate • The Directorate is headed by the Executive Director and has the Social Development Unit which is headed by and HOU. • The Social Development Working Group has a staff compliment of four people at national office and one at each province. • The political champions of the programme are political representatives and officials from all provinces and they constitute the Social Development Working Group which is chaired by a member of the National Executive Committee.

  4. TOTAL: 9 MEN: 8 WOMEN: 1 Mpumalanga is the only province with a woman D/CEO. DEPUTY CEOs

  5. OLD NEW EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT TEAM [EMT]

  6. OLD NEW NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

  7. OLD NEW NATIONAL WORKING GROUP CHAIRPERSONS

  8. OLD NEW PROVINCIAL CHAIRPERSON

  9. Gender Representation of Councillors Total Councillors: 8 828 Total Male Councillors: 6263 – 70.94% Total Female Councillors: 2565 – 29.06% Local Government Gender Audit 2004

  10. Local Government Gender Audit

  11. Local Government Gender Audit 2004 ELECTION TYPE TOTAL: 8 828 PR: 5 075 WARD: 3 753 • PR WARD MALE: 3165 3 098 62.36% 82.54% • PR WARD FEMALE: 1 910 655 37.63% 17.45%

  12. MAYORS MALE TOTAL: 229 – 80.63% FEMALE TOTAL: 54 – 19.01% N/CLASS.: 01 - 1.6% Local Government Gender Audit 2004

  13. DEPUTY MAYORS MALE TOTAL: 74 – 26.05% FEMALE TOTAL: 24 – 8.45% N/CLASS.: 04 – 1.40% NONE: 182 – 64.08% Local Government Gender Audit 2004

  14. SPEAKERS MALE TOTAL: 186 – 65.49% FEMALE TOTAL: 77 - 27.11% N/CLASS.: 10 - 3.52% NONE: 13 – 4.58% Local Government Gender Audit 2004

  15. CHIEF WHIPS MALE TOTAL: 163 – 57.39% FEMALE TOTAL: 27 – 9.51% N/CLASS.: 9 – 3.17% NONE: 85 – 29.93% Local Government Gender Audit 2004

  16. MUNICIPAL MANAGERS MALE TOTAL: 264 – 93.31% FEMALE TOTAL: 18 – 6.34% N/CLASS.: 1 – 0.35% Local Government Gender Audit 2004

  17. Successes The Local Government Gender Audit. Development of the Local Government Gender Policy Framework in partnership with dplg. The incorporation of gender empowerment in the SALGA constitution. The annual Women in Local Government Conferences held in partnership with dplg. The Benoni Declaration of 2005. Challenges Partnerships have sometime undermined the common cause of women empowerment. No common programmes by spheres of government that adequately address the roles and responsibilities and take into consideration the mandate of the different spheres of government. The number of women political representatives been improved whilst less has been achieved in the administration wing of municipalities. SUCCESS AND CHALLENGES

  18. Local Government Election Plan ID documents • …report reported a drastic decline in the voter turnout during the local government election as compared to the national and provincial elections. The youth has been particularly mentioned as a group that is apathetic towards the electoral process. A small number of the young people do participate but the bigger youth population has not registered tovote.

  19. Local Government Election Plan Meeting with the political parties (the Women’s Wing) to discuss the 50/50 Campaign • The purpose of the meeting is to sensitise women, in political parties, to gender issues. In return these women will raise awareness in communities. The meeting aims at influencing women to lobby for nomination (PR and Ward) as candidates and the zebra system to be applied on the party lists.

  20. Local Government Election Plan Meeting with NGOs (50/50 Campaign partners) to discuss Strategies for illuminating the campaign • A meeting with the 50/50 Campaign partners will be held to discuss the campaign strategy. The purpose of this meeting is to mobilize resources for small municipalities that do not have the capacity to implement the campaign.

  21. Local Government Election Plan YOUTH PARTICIPATION • ID application and distribution • Youth Voter Education • Youth Voter Registration • Post election research to qualitatively determine the youth participation in the elections

  22. Local Government Election Plan Developing Election Campaign Material • Developing a catalogue of women in local government: The project focus will be on women councillors (mayors, deputy mayors, speakers and chief whips) and senior officials, namely, municipal managers and deputy municipal managers.

  23. Local Government Election Plan Guidelines to Enhance the Representation and Participation of Women in Local Government • The objectives of the guidelines are to articulate in short, ways in which the representation and participation of women can be enhanced. Representation refers specifically to the numbers while participation refers to the involvement in relation to positions held.

  24. Local Government Election Plan 2005/06 Democracy Development Workshops: • To ensure that all councillors are prepared for the LG elections • To ensure that women – who make up 55+% of the election campaigning population - are well informed of the processes that lead to the election day i.e. candidate nomination and candidate list submission to the IEC, the campaigning and voting process, the counting process and the legislation related to the elections. • To sensitise political parties (through its councillors) on the legal obligation and social imperative to equally include women on he party lists.

  25. Local Government Election Plan 2005/06 Capacity building of Special project Units in municipalities. • Ensuring gender mainstreaming through workshoping the municipal and provincial office staff dealing with social development programmes

  26. Local Government Election Plan 2005/06 The Women in Local Government Conferences • A national conference will be held in celebration of Women’s Day in 2005. The national conference will be preceded by the provincial conferences. Objectives - To give a report back on the progress made on the gender and HIV/Aids matters that were deliberated on in 2004 - To identify the needs of women in order to develop a programme that will address their needs. - To share with the women election plan that seeks to enhance their representation and participation in LG

  27. Local Government Election Plan 2005/06 MEDIA AND PUBLICITY • Mediarefers to the media output that SALGA makes during 2005. Media includes municipal newsletters/publications, radio stations and newspapers and television. It is critical that SALGA is vocal on supporting the upcoming LG lections and also in encouraging engendered balloting. The political leaders in local government must use the media to promote the LG elections. • Publicity refers to branding around activities in the various projects across directorates, units and even municipalities. Statements of support for the election slogan must be printed on the promotional material (e.g. caps, T-shirts, pens etc) that will be in conferences or workshops. Municipalities must write statements of support for the elections n the bills.

  28. Local Government Election Plan 2005/06 POST ELECTIONS Local Government Audit • The objectives of this project are to determine the gender representation and participation of people in them municipal employ. A report will be written, printed and circulated to all municipalities. An interactive report will be posted on the SALGA website. The information will be updated quarterly and printed once a year with the trend reports.

  29. Local Government Election Plan 2005/06 Local Government Audit The audit will be on the Special Programmes, namely: • Disabilities • Youth • Gender • Race The audit will be done on the following structure: • Council • Portfolio Committees • Ward Committees • Section 57 Employees • All levels of employment

  30. THANK YOU All queries on the presentation must be addressed to: Ayanda Nabe: anabe@salga.org.za Dineo Choabi: dchoabi@salga.org.za Ph: 012-369 8000 Fax: 012-369 8001

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