quarterly report 4 th quarter 2012/13 january –march 2013 branch : women’s empowerment &...
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QUARTERLY REPORT
4th Quarter 2012/13January –March 2013
BRANCH : Women’s Empowerment & Gender EqualityAdvocacy and Gender Mainstreaming
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PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES
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• 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
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Strategic Objective
Performance Indicator/outp
ut 2012/13Quarter 4
Target Responsible Manager
Progress (Achieve
d, Partially Achieved
or Not Achieved
)
Reason for
Variances
(partially or not
achieved)
Proposed
Corrective
Actions
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
Number of departments and provinces work shopped and supported on implementation of National Policy on WEGE
8 Departments and 2 Provinces work-shopped and supported on Policy
CD Advocacy & Mainstreaming
Achieved None N/A
Draft National Gender Mainstreaming Strategy
15 National Depts. work-shopped on Gender Mainstreaming Strategy
CD Advocacy & Mainstreaming
Achieved None N/A
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Strategic Objective
Performance Indicator/output 2012/13
Quarter 4 Target
Responsible
Manager
Progress (Achieve
d, Partially Achieved
or Not Achieved
)
Reason for
Variances(partially or not
achieved)
Proposed
Corrective Actio
ns
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
New Growth Path Engendered
Report on advocacy programmes on engendering the new growth path and statistics of Job Fund allocations compiled
CD Advocacy & Mainstreaming
Partially Achieved
Limited human resource affected advocacy across the country
Number of programmes on rural women’s development coordinated
2 Provincial programmes on rural women’s consultations and projects coordinated(FS , Mpu)
CD Advocacy & Mainstreaming
Achieved None N/A
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Strategic Objective
Performance Indicator/
output 2012/13
Quarter 4 Target
Responsible Manager
Progress (Achieved,
Partially Achieved
or Not Achieved)
Reason for
Variances
(partially or not
achieved)
Proposed
Corrective
Actions
To facilitate and coordinate women’s empowerment and gender equality through mainstreaming in al government’s policies programmes and governance processes as well as advocating lobbying and awareness raising
Number of Advocacy and Social Campaigns coordinated
1 Advocacy Campaign on raising awareness among women on Human Rights coordinated
CD Advocacy and Mainstreaming
Achieved None N/A
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MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS
KPI Q4 Target Achieved
Progress Information
Number of programmes on rural women’s development coordinated
2 Provincial programmes on rural women`s consultations and projects coordinated (NW, KZN)
Site Visits undertaken at Kwa Zulu Natal: on 28 – 30 January 2013
Draft Report available
Site visits in the North West Province for women led projects were visited
on 18 -20 February 2013
Draft report available
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MAIN ACHIEVEMENTSKPI Q4 Target
AchievedProgress Information
Number of Advocacy and Social Campaigns coordinated
Integrated Mainstreaming strategy with Advocacy strategy finalised and presented to the Portfolio Committee
Draft Sanitary Dignity Campaign Strategy developed and consulted on with the National Gender Machinery
1 Social Campaign on International Women’s day coordinated
National Gender Mainstreaming Strategy
Programme for rural women’s development coordinated
Coordinated planning meetings with the Department of International Relations and Cooperation
Event successfully coordinated on 9 March 2013
Report available
Gender Mainstreaming Strategy finalised
National Advocacy Strategy finalised
Coordinated consultations with the National Gender Machinery
Presented both Mainstreaming and Advocacy Strategies to the Portfolio Committee
Coordinated a consultation with the National Gender Machinery on the Sanitary dignity Campaign as one of the programmes for economic empowerment of Rural women
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TARGETS ACHIEVED Q4KPI Q4 Target Progress Information/corrective
action
Number of departments and provinces work shopped and supported on implementation of National Policy on WEGE
National policy and WEGE Act consulted on
•Consultation with the National and Provincial Gender Units conducted on 12 and 13 March 2013
Draft National Gender Mainstreaming Strategy
Mainstreaming strategy approved
2-day workshop in March 2013 held Involvement of Departmental Policy and key Units in the workshops as per requests by Departments. Mainstreaming strategy presented to the Portfolio Committee on 27 March 201
New Growth Path Engendered
Advocacy programme on engendering the New Growth Path nationally
Advocate for 50% allocation of Job Fund for women
This is an ongoing program: Letters to key stakeholders written and submission to be submitted and round table to be held in 2013/14 financial year
Draft Implementation Plan developed and to be consulted on during the round table
BRANCH CHALLENGES REQUIRING INTERVENTION
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• Referrals to implementing Departments for project funding and technical support are not timeously attended to; and this often lead to missed opportunities for women projects.
• Lack of sufficient human capacity and requisite skills • Lack of sufficient funding to effectively implement
operational plan• Ad hoc tasks / supplementary tasks
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PROGRAMME OBJECTIVEMonitoring and Evaluation: WEGE
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• Facilitate the translation on national and international Commitments into empowerment and socioeconomic development programmes, as well as to oversee and report comprehensively on the national realisation of women’s rights and progressive realisation of equality.
• To promote, facilitate and monitor the realisation of the rights and dignity of all women to enable them to reach their full potential in an inclusive and equitable society.
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Strategic Objective
Performance
Indicator/output
2012/13
Quarter 4Target
Responsible
Manager
Progress (Achieved,
Partially Achieved or
Not Achieved)
Reason for Variances
(partially or not
achieved)
Proposed Corrective
Actions
To monitor compliance and conduct impact assessments on women’s empowerment and gender equality as well as compile reports to meetnational, regional, continental and international commitments
Number of national departments monitored on WEGE
•14 National Depts. work-shopped and monitored on gender responsiveness
CD Achieved None N/A
Number of provinces gender audited
•4 quarterly reports on plans of action on implementingrecommendations
CD •Partially Achieved
•Provinces have finalised their audits •Audit reports available •No progress in meeting with provinces to action recommendations
Provinces have not received approval from their executive hence it slowed the process of follow up on recommendations
•Follow up on recommendations will be incorporated into monitoring visits to provinces as part of the M&E task in 2013/14
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Strategic Objective
Performance Indicator/outp
ut 2012/13 Quarter 4Target
Responsible
Manager
Progress (Achieved,
Partially Achieved
or Not Achieved)
Reason for
Variances
(partially or not achieve
d)
Proposed
Corrective
Actions
To monitor compliance and conduct impact assessments on women’s empowerment and gender equality as well as compile reports to meetnational, regional, continental and international commitments
Number of databases established and monitored
•1 database on womenfarmers / women inagriculture in provincesCreated• 1 database on womencooperatives created
CD: Monitoring and Evaluation
•Achieved None N/A
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Strategic Objective
Performance Indicator/output 2012/13
Quarter 4 Target
Responsible Manager
Progress (Achieved,
Partially Achieved
or Not Achieved)
Reason for
Variances(partially or not
achieved)
Proposed
Corrective
Actions
To monitor compliance and conduct impact assessments on women’s empowerment and gender equality as well as compile reports to meetnational, regional, continental and international commitments
Number of provincial monitoring visits to women’s projects, including green economy projects and case studies documented and published
•3 Monitoring visits in Free State, Mpumalanga, and Limpopo
CD: M and E Achieved None N/A
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Strategic Objective
Performance Indicator/outp
ut 2012/13
Quarter 4 Target
Responsible
Manager
Progress (Achieved, Partially Achieved or
Not Achieved)
Reason for Variances
(partially or not achieved)
Proposed Corrective Actions
To monitor compliance and conduct impact assessments on women’s empowerment and gender equality as well as compile reports to meetnational, regional, continental and international commitments
Number of reports on compliance to regional, continental and international commitments developed and submitted to Cabinet and /or Multilateral bodies as per timeframe and request
1 Report on African Women’s Protocol to AU
CD: Achieved None N/A
Number of reports on compliance to national commitments developed and submitted to Cabinet
1 Report on the assessment on the impact of national focus on infrastructure development and funding for job creation on women in the country submitted
CD: Partially Achieved Lack of human capacity and lack of budget meant that this KPI could not be undertaken in totality.
Draft Impact Assessment Proposal compiled for sourcing external support
Will use the M&E tool to include indicators that would generate information in this regard in 2013.
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INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT AND CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES
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To provide an integrated approach for institutional support and capacity development through provision of institutional support and facilitation of capacity development across the spheres of government, civil society and the private sector
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Strategic Objective
Performance Indicator/ Output
2012/13Q4 Target
Responsible Manager
Progress (Achieve
d, Partially Achieved
or Not Achieved
Reason for
Variances
(partially or not
achieve
d)
Proposed
Corrective
Actions
To provide an integrated approach for institutional support and capacity building
Capacity building andinstitutional supportprogrammes facilitatedand coordinated
Comprehensive report on capacity development needs for gender mainstreaming and responsive budgeting compiled
CD: Institutional Support and capacity development
Achieved N/A N/A
Strategy formainstreaming genderconsiderations inintegrated public servicedelivery coordinated
Capacity building and institutional support for alignment of municipal focal points coordinated and comprehensive report compiled.
CD: Institutional Support and capacity development
Achieved N/A N/A
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Strategic Objective
Performance Indicator/ Output
2012/13Q4 Target
Responsible Manager
Progress (Achieve
d, Partially Achieved
or Not Achieved
Reason for
Variances
(partially or not
achieve
d)
Proposed
Corrective
Actions
To provide an integrated approach for institutional support and capacity building
Institutional Framework developed
Consolidated report Institutional
Framework compiled
CD: Institutional Support and capacity development
Achieved N/A N/A
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Strategic Objective
Performance
Indicator/ Output 2012/13
Q4 Target
Responsible Manager
Progress
(Achieved,
Partially Achieved or Not Achieve
d
Reason for Variances
(partially or not achieved
Proposed
Corrective Action
s
To provide an integrated approach for institutional support and capacity building
Machineries convened
Joint Machinery Convened
CD: Institutional Support and capacity development
Achieved
N/A
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Strategic Objective
Performance Indicator/ Output 2012/13
Q4 Target Responsible
Manager
Progress (Achieved,
Partially Achieved
or Not Achieved
Reason for
Variances(partially or not
achieved
Proposed
Corrective Action
s
To provide an integrated approach for institutional support and capacity building
Institutional support andcapacity building tomeet international andregional obligationsfacilitated
Report on green economy empowerment initiatives compiled
CD: Institutional Support and capacity development
Achieved N/A N/A
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Strategic Objective
Performance Indicator/ Output 2012/13
Q4 Target Responsible
Manager
Progress (Achieved,
Partially Achieved
or Not Achieved
Reason for
Variances(partially or not
achieved
Proposed
Corrective Action
s
To provide an integrated approach for institutional support and capacity building
Integrated institutionalmechanisms forempowerment of youngwomen facilitated
Report on partnerships with business and government compiled
CD: Institutional Support and capacity development
Achieved N/A N/A
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Strategic Objective
Performance Indicator/outp
ut 2012/13Quarter 4
Target
Responsible
Manager
Progress (Achieved,
Partially Achieved or
Not Achieved)
Reason for Variances
(partially or not
achieved)
Proposed
Corrective
Actions
To facilitate the full functioning of the National council against GBV by providing it with secretariat services and coordination of the 365 days POA wit h government private sector and civil society
National Council Established
Number of Council Sittings coordinated
None
1 Council sitting held
CD N/A
Achieved
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Number of Provincial Council established and facilitated
2 Provincial Councils facilitated (KZN-NC)
CD Not achieved The Council took time to be established and there are indication that there will not be provincial councils established
NONE
Number of Sessions of Secretariat services provided
1 Session of Secretariat services provided
CD Achieved N/A N/A
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Strategic Objective
Performance
Indicator/output
2012/13
Quarter 4 Target
Responsible Manager
Progress (Achieved,
Partially Achieved
or Not Achieved)
Reason for Variances
(partially or not
achieved)
Proposed Corrective
Actions
To facilitate the full functioning of the National council against GBV by providing it with secretariat services and coordination of the 365 days POA wit h government private sector and civil society
Number of Programmes in 365 days POA coordinated
None CD N/A N/A N/A
Number of Social campaigns coordinated
None CD N/A N/A N/A
– Consolidated list of Council members finalised
– Appointment letters for Council members finalised and distributed
– National Council Strategy drafted in consultation with Office of the Deputy President
– National Council On Gender-based Violence established
– 365 Days National Plan of Action reviewed and costed, preliminary work
– 5 year Funding proposal compiled and submitted to UN for consideration
– Terms of Reference for the National Council reviewed for Council consideration
– First meeting of the inaugurated National Council facilitated and coordinated
– Progress reports on the work of the Secretariat compiled
– Speaking notes for various speaking engagements of the Minister compiled
– Presentations made to different fora on the purpose of the National Council
– Tracking of progress with regard to reported cases of GBV
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SECRETARIAT MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS
BRANCH CHALLENGES REQUIRING INTERVENTION
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• Lack of sufficient human capacity and requisite skills at departmental and provincial levels
• Referrals to implementing Departments for project funding and technical support are not timeously attended to, and this often lead to missed opportunities for women projects
• Lack of sufficient funding to effectively implement operational plan
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STATUS OF WEGE BUDGET
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WEGE
Sub-ProgrammeAdjusted Budget
Expenditure 31/03/2013 Deviation
Advocacy and Mainstreaming 9 292 000 9 547 522 -255 522Institutional Support and Capacity5 956 000 3 635 833 2 320 167Monitoring & Evaluation 5 851 000 5 225 414 625 586Total Expenditure 21 099 000 18 408 770 2 690 230
Economic ClassificationAdjusted Budget
Expenditure 31/03/2013 Deviation
Compensation of employees 8 477 000 6 699 204 1 777 796Goods and services 12 455 000 11 627 416 827 584Transfers and subsidies - - 0Payments for capital assets 167 000 82 150 84 850Total Expenditure 21 099 000 18 408 770 2 690 230
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