GDC ANNUAL REPORT 2008/9

GDC  MANDATE  The mandate of these three programs is to translate constitutional imperatives, policy pronouncements and legislation into measurable and meaningful programs. Furthermore, by virtue of their location within the Presidency, the overall mandate and core business of the three units is therefore to provide high quality, professional support to the President, Deputy President, and the Minister in the Presidency in the execution of their executive responsibilities on issues pertaining to women, gender equality, disability and children’s rights.  VISION  The overarching vision of all three units is the drive for excellence in governance processes to ensure a better life for women, people with disabilities and children in the South African society. The ultimate aim is to ensure the creation of a non-sexist, non-racist, non-discriminatory and fully inclusive society in which all the people of South Africa can enjoy their human rights, human dignity, and human freedoms.

CORE FUNCTIONS OF THE PROGRAMMES All three units have essentially performed the same core functions and areas of work, which can be summarised as follows: Policy development and management; Mainstreaming of gender / children’s rights / disability considerations into all policies, programmes, practices and projects; Coordination and planning function with Focal points in government sector, constitutional and statutory bodies; Parliamentary and provincial legislative structures, local government level, private sector, business, labour and civil society in general; Advocacy which focuses on awareness raising, conscientization and campaigns on emerging issues;

CORE FUNCTIONS OF THE PROGRAMMES Facilitate capacity building for mainstreaming processes; Monitor, evaluate and reporting on the progress made and challenges existing in the promotion and protection of human rights and human dignity; Research on specific issues pertaining to women, children, and people with disabilities; Compliance with the regional and international obligations and commitments; and Networking with other stakeholders both nationally and globally.

WORK WITH PRESIDENCY, PCAS AND GOVERNMENT CLUSTERS  The three offices together with the Office of the Chief Director have been participating annually in the Presidency and in PCAS strategic planning sessions.  The three Programmes have also participated in some meetings of the Government Clusters, however, this has not been a consistent approach given the number of challenges experienced by the three Offices in terms of participation.  All three units have also contributed annually to the Presidency Annual Reports.

Performance Status Report: 2008/09 KRAAchievementsExpenditure Mainstreaming of a Child Centered Governance Approach  Increased participation of Municipalities in National Children’s Right processes  Involvement of more civil society organizations in the National Children's Rights processes  Agreed partnership with the National Children's Rights Committee to coordinate, capacitate and monitor children's rights delivery in civil society R ORC

Performance Status Report: 2008/09 KRAAchievementsExpenditure  Consolidated database of Children’s rights contact persons in 188 municipalities (46 district and 142 local municipalities ) Policy Work  Developed Policy Framework for the advancement and Coordination of Children's Rights in South Africa – final draft ready  Developed Children's Rights Delivery Guide for Municipalities ORC

Performance Status Report: 2008/09 KRAActivitiesExpenditure Capacity Building  Developed training modules for ORCs and Children's Rights Focal Points at the three spheres of Government.  Conducted training on: Mainstreaming, Policy Analysis, Coordination, M & E, Child participation and Children's rights and responsibilities ORC

Performance Status Report: 2008/09 KRAActivitiesExpenditure Advocacy  Commemorated the Day of the African Child  Celebrated National Children's Day  Participated in the resolution process of xenophobic attacks in Alexander 1.2 m Advocacy  Second Situation Analysis of children in South Africa ORC

Performance Status Report: 2008/09 KRAActivitiesExpenditure  Junior G8 Summit in Japan  Girls in the 33rdWorld Conference on Girl Guides  IDP process in Musina Municipality in partnership with National Children’s Rights Committee and Save the Children UK ORC

Performance Status Report: 2008/09 KRAActivitiesExpenditure Coordination of Children’s Rights Advisory Councils Convened two Children’s Right Advisory Councils. This is a forum where government and civil society meet and discuss progress on children’s rights issues Monitoring & EvaluationAnnual Sectoral Performance Evaluation and Planning Meetings ORC

Performance Status Report: 2008/09 KRAActivitiesExpenditure Monitoring & Evaluation  Quarterly performance tracking meetings with the Provincial Offices on the Rights of the Child meeting were held  Second Situation Analysis of Children in South Africa was conducted  Study on Child Killings was conducted  Report on Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents was compiled Total R2,7 m ORC

Performance Status Report: 2008/09 KRAAchievementsExpenditure Mainstreaming:Mainstre aming disability can only be facilitated if there is a clear definition of disability  Very few departments have reached 2% target of employment of persons with disabilities.  In ensuring that persons with disabilities and their families are aware of existing government programmes for persons with disabilities the office continued to ensure that Izimbizo and NCOP (public participation) programmes mainstreamed disability OSDP

Performance Status Report: 2008/09 KRAAchievementsExpenditure Mainstreaming and capacity building Workshops on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Policy Framework on Disability for Local Government held for 66 municipalities in collaboration with SALGA and DPLG.  Annual campaigns and events are carried out to raise awareness on disability, viz. 3 December as International Day of Persons with Disabilities,  A National disability Summits were held in OSDP

Performance Status Report: 2008/09 KRAAchievementsExpenditure Mainstreaming and capacity building  People with disabilities were selected to form part of the reference group on the study conducted by South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) on HIV and AIDS  Progress is being made towards raising awareness of crimes against persons with disabilities  National Disability Machinery (NDM) was established in order to facilitate the involvement of civil society, OSDP

Performance Status Report: 2008/09 KRAAchievementsExpenditure Policy work Draft National Disability Policy and Implementation Guidelines drafted and consulted with relevant stakeholders. Participation in the First State Party conference on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities OSDP

Performance Status Report: 2008/09 KRAActivitiesExpenditure Monitoring & Evaluation  Quarterly performance tracking meetings with the Provincial Offices on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities  Visit Government Departments to tract the 2% target of the employment of persons with disabilities.  a research project on relevant disability specific indicators and how they fit within the government Wide Monitoring and Evaluation  work has been done in the Fifteen Year Review on the impact of policies and programmes on disability; Total OSDP R 2.5 m OSDP

Donor Funded-Danish Economic Empowerment Project  Activity 1: Economic development of 4 sheltered / protective workshops  Dilokong Protective Workshop for the Disabled – Limpopo Province  Tembalethu Protective Workshop – Gugulethu, Western Cape  Johannesburg Council for the Disabled – Lenasia, Gauteng  Dillo Disabled Cooperative – Qwa Qwa, Free State Province Activity 2: Develop a database of professionals with disabilities  Activity 3: Increase the capacity of the Disability Movement to place

Cont.  2: Develop a database of professionals with disabilities  Activity 3: Increase the capacity of the Disability Movement to place persons with disability in Job creation

Expenditure 2008/09  Funds Received from Danish Government  R 3,099,174  Total Funds committed up to date  R 2,509,417  Total Funds paid out up to date  R 1,896,945  Total Funds Remaining but committed  R 612,471  Total Funds Remaining and not committed  R 589,757  Currently in account 1,202,228

EE-Project  The Danish Economic Empowerment Project continues to touch many lives -both directly and indirectly. Direct interventions have concluded in most cases and the OSDP is currently working towards ensuring sustainability and long term impact.

OSW:GENDER MAINSTREAMING Key Result Area AchievementsIndicatorsTotal budget used Develop a policy on Effective Partnerships in promoting Gender Equality Common weath Cida Coordinated and facilitated Donor Round table meeting with the private sector, UN agencies and Embassies Facilitated a study tours on behalf of UNIFEM and UNDP The donor funded a trip for two members of the NGM to India and Brazil for Women’s Empowerment Programme IDC EDCON

OSW:GENDER MAINSTREAMING Key Result Area AchievementsIndicatorsTotal budget used Research the 15YR gender review report Developed terms of reference, appointed a service provider and hosted a meeting to review the research report 15yr Review report

OSW:GENDER MAINSTREAMING Key Result Area AchievementsIndicatorsTotal budget used (ADB) Gender Profiling; Developed terms of reference with the NGM, coordinated meetings with strategic partners of the NGM Gender profile report to finalized Austrian/South Africa Harmful Traditional Practices Project Held a seminar on CEDAW article 5 with the NGM and representatives from NHTL ( National House of Traditional Leaders) and the Austrian Embassy Report in place

OSW:GENDER MAINSTREAMING Key Result Area AchievementsIndicatorsTotal budget used Provide strategic direction and support to government departments and municipalities The office offered support to the following: Limpopo, Mpumalanga; Northern Cape, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Metro, Matatiele Municipalities Reports

OSW:Gender Mainstreaming training in the public service Key Result Area AchievementsIndicatorsTotal budget used Collaborating with PALAMA on the rollout of the training manual on gender mainstreaming OSW sits on the panel to select service provide for the roll out. Training rolled out and in progress Increased number of gender focal point trained Support the Gender Mainstreaming training manual. Gender mainstreaming resource handbook finalized by the office Available resource hand book

OSW:Gender Mainstreaming training in the public service Key Result Area AchievementsIndicatorsTotal budget used Coordinated meetings for NGM, GFP and Provincial OSW Increased participation by civil society organizations, provinces, national departments and Parliament NGM reports

OSW:Advocacy Key Result Area AchievementsIndicatorsTotal budget used Collaborate with Department of Arts and Culture in planning and coordinating for National Women’s Month Activities Co-hosted the National women’s Day in North West Province National Women’s Day Celebration held DP programme to celebrate the President’s contribution to women’s emp. in National Women’s month Hosted the celebrations Celebrations held successfully

OSW:Advocacy Key Result Area AchievementsIndicatorsTotal budget used Collaborating with DPLG on the 16 days Activism Campaign Co-hosted the 16Day of Activisms Campaign 16 Days of Activism Campaign held Men as partners project Presented a paper during the launch of the National Men for Change organized by National Police Commissioner Report available

OSW:M&E and Reporting CEDAW ReportThe report was launched and submitted to the UN Report available India Brazil South Africa Initiative ( IBSA)meetings attended in India and BrazilreportsR attended in India and Brazil reports India Brazil South Africa Initiative ( IBSA)meetings attended in India and BrazilreportsR

Thank You  Audit Financial 08/09  Will be forwarded