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SELECT COMMITTEE ON WOMEN, CHILDREN AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

SELECT COMMITTEE ON WOMEN, CHILDREN AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES. Briefing and Information Session Research Unit 7 August 2009. INTRODUCTION & BACKGROUND. Delivery Priorities for Committee

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SELECT COMMITTEE ON WOMEN, CHILDREN AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

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  1. SELECT COMMITTEE ON WOMEN, CHILDREN AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES Briefing and Information Session Research Unit 7 August 2009

  2. INTRODUCTION & BACKGROUND • Delivery Priorities for Committee • Monitor and ensure that relative policies and programmes are implemented in all Ministries and Departments, • Monitor all legislation including the Budget for compliance with international commitments, • Monitor all Ministries and Departments to ensure that they have mainstreamed gender/child/disability/elderly? in all their programmes and budgets. Oversight, Monitoring and Evaluation Role of committee is important: To ensure that the rights of socially vulnerable groups are considered and prioritised in all legislation, policies and programmes Appropriate budgets are allocated for the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of legislation, policies and programmes To improve the quality of life and status of socially vulnerable groups across the social and racial spectrum in South Africa

  3. WOMEN Key Challenges facing Women and Implications for the Committee

  4. POLICY AND LEGISLATION Key Policy and Legislation Issues for the Committee to engage with:

  5. INTERNATIONAL COMMITMENTS SA is signatory to and has ratified a number of international tools promoting gender equality and the protection of women’s rights

  6. KEY ISSUES FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE COMMITTEE DURING THE 4TH PARLIAMENT • INSTITUTIONAL MECHANISMS • Creation and Functioning of Ministry on Women, Children and Persons with disabilities and the Elderly • Monitoring the implementation of legislation and monitoring and evaluation of targeted policies and strategies • National Gender Machinery • Reporting and implementation • VITAL ISSUES AFFECTING WOMEN IN SOUTH AFRICA • Violence against Women • Economic Empowerment and Skills Development • Access to Services • Poverty eradication • Health – quality of care, high rates of maternal mortality, HIV and AIDS

  7. CHILDREN & PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

  8. POLICY & LEGISLATION Ministry on Women, Children and People with Disabilities

  9. TREATIES & COMMITMENTS REPORTING FOLLOW-UP OF RECOMMENDATIONS

  10. ISSUES (CHILDREN) DISAGGREGATED DATA, BUDGET, M & E

  11. ISSUES (PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES) DISAGGREGATED DATA, BUDGET, M & E

  12. FUNCTIONING OF COMMITTEE • Issues for consideration by the Committee: • Strategic planning • Workshops – Rights, Mainstreaming, Budget • Sub-group structure – Joint Rules (122) • Timing • Conferral • Members statements • Engagement with media and civil society • Sectoral Parliament – Children, Youth, Disability, Women (Review, Follow-up of Resolutions)

  13. INSTITUTIONAL MECHANISMS

  14. PROPOSED THEMES For consideration by the Committee: Parliamentary cycle e.g. Budget, Annual reports 30% Urgent matters & reactive issues THEMATIC AREAS 70%

  15. PROPOSED THEMES

  16. Thank You

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