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Explore the policy and legislative context, mandates, and achievements in Gender and Disability rights by Gauteng Provincial Government. Learn about strategic approaches, key roles, responsibilities, legislation, and outcomes.

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  1. Gauteng Provincial Government (GPG)Report on the Implementation of Gender Equity and Disability RightsSubmission to the Department of Women, Children and People with Disabilities30 October 2013

  2. Presentation overview • Policy & legislative context, mandates and approach: • Gender • Disability • Key Achievements: • Gender • Disability

  3. Policy & legislative context, mandates and approach: Gender and Disability

  4. GENDER: Mandates • Provincial mandate & priorities based on: • Electoral mandate – 2009 & 2011 ANC manifesto • Gauteng Medium-Term Strategic Framework (MTSF) 2009-2014 • National and provincial political outcomes • Gender mandate & priorities based on: • Gender mainstreaming in context of political outcomes & broader development objectives

  5. GENDER: Strategic Approach • Redress & historical legacy of triple oppression • Driving women’s empowerment,gender equality and improving women’s quality of life through: • Mainstreaming women in overall development agenda and government programmes • Programmes targetedspecifically at women • Partnershipswith stakeholders beyond govt • Inter-governmental collaboration for delivery • Outcomes-based approach (next slide) • Short, medium and long-term planning • Focus on priorities– not everything

  6. GENDER: Strategic Approach 2 • Outcomes-based approach key: • to improve government performanceas basis for transformation & better developmental impacts • to translate electoral mandate and policy priorities into tangible results • Shift from general commitments & priorities to greater level of analysis of delivery value chain based on research, evidence, correct indicators and measurable targets • “Organising principle” to gear all of government andpartnersto achieve country outcomes at local, provincial and national level • Basis for results-based planning, budgeting, reporting, monitoring & evaluation, performance information & corrective interventions • ‘Genderised’ POA with achievements and priorities per outcome area • GPG-wide gender programmes • Gauteng gender structures

  7. GENDER: Current Context • Less than 1 year to national & provincial end of term & end of second decade of democracy • Emphasis for 2012-2014-2016: • movement beyond policy and planning • effective implementationof programmes and projects • visible delivery on commitments and tangible results • Gender Programme of Action (POA) linked to Gauteng Intergovernmental POA

  8. GENDER: Key roles & responsibilities • Premier is main political authority responsible for championing gender mainstreaming in province • The Office of the Premier responsible for strategic leadership & coordination of gender youth & disability mainstreaming across province • GEYODI delegations to MECs reverted back to Office of Premier with effect from the 1 April 2011 • MECs political authorities responsible for gender mainstreaming within their sectoral programmes • HODs & programme managers responsible for implementing gender programmes& appointing gender focal points

  9. GENDER: Key roles & responsibilities 2 • Intergovernmental Gender Forum • GPG and municipal representatives meets quarterly • Provincial Gender Machinery incl. • Stakeholder gender forum/interactions, PWMSA, National departments (DWCPD), Commission on Gender Equality, Private sector , Political organisations, Women’s formations , Non-governmental organisations, Faith based organisations, LGBTI organisations, other civil society organisations • Gauteng Provincial Legislature GEYODI Standing Committee • Oversight in relation to performance against gender plans etc. on quarterly basis

  10. GENDER: Key legislation and policy 1 • International • Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) • UN Human Rights Conventions • International Bill of Rights for Women • Beijing Platform of Action • Millennium Development Goals (MDG) • Regional • African Union Declaration • SADC Protocol • 2010-2020 Decade for African Women (AU)

  11. GENDER: Key legislation and policy 2 • South Africa • SA Constitution, equality clause, Bill of Rights • White Paper on Reconstruction and Development • SA National Policy Framework on Women Empowerment and Gender Equality • Wide range of Legislation incl. Employment Equity Act, Promotion of Equality & Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act, Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act, BBBEE Act etc. • Gauteng • Revised Gauteng Policy Framework on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment • Range of other policy frameworks

  12. GENDER: Outcomes, MDGs and gender priorities 1

  13. GENDER: Outcomes, MDGs and gender priorities 2

  14. GENDER: Outcomes, MDGs and gender priorities 3

  15. Gauteng Gender Strategy: Key Focus Areas 1 • Gendered Planning & Policy (Mainstreaming Strategy) • Gender considerations in all strategic & projects plans etc. • Necessary institutional mechanisms in departments • Focal points at senior management level to drive mainstreaming agenda • Gender Programme of Action • Gender programme aligned to provincial priorities • Capacity Building: Gender Awareness • Provide training on gender awareness • Advocacy & promotion of Human Rights • Commemoration of international & national calendar of event • Gender Analysis: Gender Lenses • Disaggregation of information, research & analysis

  16. Gauteng Gender Strategy: Key Focus Areas 2 • Participation and partnerships • Formation of alliances in planning and implementation of gender programmes across government and with civil society sectors and organisations • Training and development • Providing the necessary training and development opportunities to underpin gender mainstreaming within government beyond • Gender responsive budgeting & resource allocation • Ensuring the necessary allocation of resources for mainstreamed and targetted gender programmes • Monitoring and Evaluation • Reporting on performance, evaluation of programmes, and making the necessary interventions

  17. DISABILITY: National Mandate 1 • Legislative Mandates - Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act, 4 of 2000 - Commission on Gender Equality Act, 39 of 1996 - Employment Equity Act, 55 of 1996 with its applicable Codes of Good Practice • Policy Mandates - White Paper on the Transformation of the Public Service, 1995 - White Paper on Affirmative Action in the Public Service, 1997 - The White Paper on “Integrated National Disability Strategy”, 1997 - White Paper on Special Needs education

  18. DISABILITY: National Mandate 2 • Protocols and Conventions at the International Level - UN Convention on Persons with Disabilities - ILO Conventions, especially C100 on Equal Remuneration for Work of Equal Value - UN Member States’ Participation Protocols • Coordinate, collaborate and partner with all government departments

  19. DISABILITY: Provincial Mandate Key Performance Areas: • Policy co-ordination and development   • Co-ordination of Institutional Mechanisms for Disability Rights Mainstreaming • Capacity Building • Monitoring and Evaluation of Disability Programmes • Formation of Partnerships • Promotion of Human Rights through advocacy • Research

  20. DISABILITY: Alignment to International, regional and local instruments

  21. DISABILITY: Alignment to International, regional and local instruments

  22. DISABILITY: Alignment to International, regional and local instruments

  23. DISABILITY: Alignment to International, regional and local instruments

  24. Key Achievements: Gender and Disability

  25. EDUCATION: Key gender achievements • Matric pass rate • Increasingly large numbers of girl learners passing matric, mathematics and science - 52% of matriculants are girls • ECD & Grade R • Over 88% public primary schools have Grade R • Of the 66,706 children accessing ECD, 32,593 are girl learners, showing improved access to education • Teacher development • Over 8 500 teachers trained including in maths, science, technology • Education support in no fee schools • Free nutrition to over 1 million learners • Of the top performers in no fee schools who are awarded bursaries to access higher education, 51% are girls

  26. EDUCATION: Key gender achievements • Key interventions to ensure uninterrupted school attendance being expanded • dignity packs rollout proceeding as planned although supplier challenges encountered in early 2013/14 • departmental oversight over the functionality and cleanliness of toilets was successfully undertaken through responsiveness to complaints lodged through the call centre • Social workers to schools fell below target, as reported above.

  27. EDUCATION: Key disability achievements • Training of educators who are able to teach their subject in SA sign language reached 100 (125%) of the 80 planned by Q2 of 2013/14 • 18 (100%) of 18 targeted full service schools established • The practice of early identification of learners is expected to reach all priority schools -174 learners with barriers to learning were identified by Q2 2 of 2013/14 • NPO service provision for people with disabilities met or exceeded targets - 107 (102%) of 105 NPOs • 3 751 (99%) of 3 792 targeted people with disabilities were accessing services in funded protective workshops managed by NPOs • Only 726 (104%) of 700 hearing aids targeted for Q2 provided

  28. EDUCATION: Key disability achievements • Assistance to People with disabilities in the form of walking aids, wheelchairs, orthotics and prosthetics and assistive devices showing improvement annually. By Q2 of 2013/14: • 842 (53%) of 1 600 wheelchairs projected to be provided were provided • 4 377 (73%) of 6 000 walking aids were provided • 8 743 (58%) of the 15 000 orthotic, prosthetics and assistive devices were provided

  29. HEALTH: Key gender achievements • Targets largely met or exceeded for most interventions to reduce maternal and child mortality including: • Mothers and babies who receive postnatal care within 3 days of delivery (80% targeted vs 91% and 93% achieved) • Pregnant women who book for antenatal care before 20 weeks gestation (40% vs 40%), improved by 20% • Overall improvement in pre- and post-natal care • Intervention regarding sex behaviors and teenage pregnancy interventions exceeded projected coverage • Delivery in facility under-18 years rate, which indicates the extent to which teenage pregnant mothers access health facilities for delivery - was expected to be retained below 6, 5% but reached 6,8 % by Q2 of 2013/14

  30. HEALTH: Key gender achievements • Targets largely met or exceeded for most interventions to reduce maternal and child mortality (continued): • Cervical cancer screening reached 50% vs 65% targeted in Q2 • Mammogram services reached 100%, with 6 of 6 hospitals targeted, reached by Q2 • 52 (100%) of facilities were reportedly providing ToP and family planning and continuous professional development by Q2 • Professional nurses training in the new Contraception and Fertility Planning Policy programmes underway by Q2

  31. HEALTH: Key gender achievements • Good progress on interventions to combat HIV / AIDS and TB: • Targets achieved for mother to child transmission (1.9%) • Targets exceeded for access to services, including dignity packs (100%) • AIDS deaths down from 38.5% in 2009 to 35% in 2011 • 388 facilities offering ART with over 500 000 people registered • TB cure rate is 81.4% against the 82% target • ARV prophylaxis to survivors of sexual assaults (PEP) and female condom distribution however fell below expected levels as did female condoms distribution by Q2 • UNAIDS estimates 18.7% of pregnant women aged 15-24 are HIV positive • 1.42 million men and women counseled and tested for HIV • 50% of men have undergone medical male circumcision

  32. HEALTH: Key gender achievements • 2 babies born HIV+ out of every 100 positive pregnant women • 4 000 teenage pregnancies in 2012 • Maternal deaths associated with HIV (Maternal Mortality Ratio = 117/100,000) • More people are receiving ART than before: 71% men; 91% women • 56, 272 reported rapes (women and children in 2010/2011)

  33. HEALTH: Key gender achievements Key interventions include: • Sexuality education and extra-curricular activities for higher risk schools + referral to health and social services • Protective social norms and values (attitudes), safe sex, and social support for PLHIV, OVC and vulnerable groups with referrals • Comprehensive workplace programmes • Mass education and mobilisation and ward based D2D education (referrals, follow ups, unemployed youth and women, informal settlements (urban and rural), high risk wards • HCT campaign

  34. HEALTH: Key gender achievements • Health system strengthening interventions benefitting women: • Wider PHC access to health professionals including doctors • CHCs & clinics with extended hours increased from 99 in 2009 to 127 in 2011 • Orphans & vulnerable children benefitting from targetted services increased from 105 666 in 2009 to 202 853 at midterm

  35. HEALTH: Key disability achievements • Targets met for interventions and support to people with disabilities: including the provision of hearing aids, walking aids , orthotics, prosthetics and assistive devices and access to services in funded protective workshops and residential facilities • 107 (102%) of 105 NPOs providing services • 3 751 (99%) of 3 792 targeted people with disabilities were accessing services in funded protective workshops • 726 (104%) of 700 hearing aids targeted for Quarter 2 provided • 4 377 (73%) of 6 000 walking aids provided • 8 743 (58%) of the 15 000 orthotic, prosthetics and assistive devices were provided • Wheelchair provision reached53% of target by Q2 2013/14, although continues to be prioritized

  36. SAFETY: Key gender achievements GPG Safety programmas aimed at reducing criminality and its impacts, incl on women • Policing • Drop in serious crime including murder, hijackings, robberies etc. • Social crime prevention • Over 460,000 men and boys in gender-based violence prevention programs • Youth desks at 83 police stations • 90% of Community Policing Forums operational • Patrollers deployed at schools and tourism points

  37. SAFETY: Key gender achievements • Violence against women and children • Interventions aimed at reducing crimes against women and children gaining traction over the years • FCS units reconstituted • 122 functional VECs • Rollout of Ikhaya Lethemba model in 3 communities • By Q2 2013/14 targets continue to be met or exceeded in key areas: • provision of psychosocial support services reached 130% of beneficiaries • Programme for recruitment and training of forensic social workers underway • 176% of targeted men reached through MASP groups • GBVP Fora reached 100% of those targeted • Women safety programmes exceeded 133% • 122% of planned Community based safe houses (Green Doors) were established • Women placed in economic empowerment opportunities – beyond welfare

  38. SAFETY: Key gender achievements • Gender priorities integrated and addressed in several programme dealing with crimes against women and children, including on social crime prevention

  39. SAFETY: Key disability achievements • Exceedingly good progress made on people with disability workshops (242%) and safety desks (180%) established • Workshops aimed at promoting awareness on violence against women and children reaching significant numbers - 1 332 (888%) people with disabilities were reached (against a target of 150) • Interventions to ensure that police stations are accessible and that people with disabilities have access to sign language interpreters also in place

  40. INCL. GROWTH: Key gender achievements 1 • Many interventions under decent work and inclusive growth benefit women, including SMME and cooperatives support, mentorship and skills development • Job creation • Women benefit through provincial job creation framework including through work opportunities in EPWP • 121 abused women linked to economic empowerment opportunities • 456 women on child support involved in cooperatives • Implementation of Youth Employment Strategy underway • women cooperatives supported exceeded the Q2 target of 80 and the Annual target of 127 - 296 (370%) women cooperatives supported • mentorship (90%) • skills development and access to support services for

  41. INCL. GROWTH: Key gender achievements 2 • Trade and investment promotion • Women-owned companies supported to access new markets, including export markets • Sectoral strategies • Jobs & other economic opportunities for women through Infrastructure projects, Pale Ya Rona carnival, BPO sector, tourism etc. • Strategic Procurement. Good progress was made on procurement for Women • % Women. 24, 06% of an expected 30% of women were being supported through GPG procurement by Q2 of 2013/14

  42. INCL. GROWTH: Key disability achievements • People with disabilities may also access services and interventions delivered as part of the Decent Work programmes • Strategic Procurement. Limited progress was made on procurement for people with disabilities • % People with disabilities. 0, 11% of an expected 5% of People with Disabilities were supported.

  43. RURAL DEV. : Key gender achievements • A range of support interventions benefit women directly and indirectly • Agricultural sector • Farmers production inputs, infrastructure & extension services • 40 women’s agricultural cooperatives supported • Women in Agriculture and Rural Development projects • Maize Triangle Strategy – of the 135 farmers supported, 90 were women • Women are key beneficiaries of agro-processing projects & agri-park with flower tunnels - 25 (357%) women benefited from Agri-parks such as the Onverwacht Agri-Park in 2013/14 • 23 women farmers have been supported – being expanded • Food Security • Women as majority beneficiaries of 20 000 households and 380 community & school food gardens & over 10,000 who benefit from 4 Food Banks

  44. RURAL DEV. : Key gender achievements • Rural development • Rural nodes in Devon, Sokhulumi, Bantu Bonke & Hekpoort & 54 rural infrastructure development initiatives

  45. RURAL DEV. : Key disability achievements • PWDs supported with production inputs (50%) and participating in community food gardens (32%) underway • People with disabilities assisted with agro-processing facilities and equipment (mainly for vegetables and egg grading machines) for example in the Sedibeng and Tshwane areas • Targets exceeded for the involvement of PWD in rural development economic drivers (200%) and protecting ecosystem and species (300%) • Farmer support for people with disabilities a challenge .

  46. HUMAN SETTLEMENT: Key gender achievements • Modest progress on the allocation of houses to women (19%) • However, women are key beneficiaries of accelerated delivery of housing opportunities, even if indirectly • 9 450 housing units and 5 345 stands delivered • 69 informal settlements formalised & 12 eradicated (total 405); 26 105 serviced stands & 50 984 houses • 1 901 social housing units, 3 890 affordable rental units and 1 491 backyard shacks delivered • Rural housing: 453 serviced stands & 640 housing units • Urban renewal in Alexandra, Bekkersdal, Evaton, Winterveldt • Range of projects implemented in 20 PTP townships, incl. 37.7km roads upgraded

  47. HUMAN SETTLEMENT: Key gender achievements • Performance been exceeding targets for women-owned companies (195%) contracted and the rand value of contracts for women owned entities for housing delivery (334%) • Housing opportunities (incl. basic services) allocated to women-headed households reached 1.29% by the end of Q2 of 2013/14

  48. HUMAN SETTLEMENT: Key disability achievements • Allocation of houses to PWD was below target - housing opportunities (incl. basic services) for people with disabilities reached only 0.05% by end of Q2

  49. LOC. GOVERNMENT: Key gender achievements • Municipal support • Women targeted as part of Scarce and Critical Skills Strategy • Access to basic services • Improved access to basic services makes big impact on lives of women, especially the poor • Deepening democracy • Representation of women in ward committees targets exceeded (899%) • 336 (420%) women attended critical and scarce skills training against a target of 80 • Training and capacity building for women councilors also a key intervention, although delays experienced – 100 targeted in 2013/14 alone

  50. LOC. GOVERNMENT: Key disability achievements • Conscious drive to ensure representation of people with disabilities in ward committees

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