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Department OF Women BRIEFING ON THE STATUS OF
WOMEN UNEMPLOYMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA AND THE
DEPARTMENTAL ANNUAL PERFORMANCE PLAN TO DEAL WITH
CHALLENGES FACING WOMEN UNEMPLOYMENT
SELECT COMMITTEE ON COOPORATIVE GOVERNANCE AND
TRADITIONAL AFFAIRS 14 OCTOBER 2014 Ms Veliswa
Baduza
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

• Background
• Strategic Focus
• Situational Analysis
• Status of Women Unemployment in SA
• Legislative Context
• Strategic Approach
• Addressing Unemployment
• Conclusion

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BACKGROUND

• The President of the Republic announced on the
  25th May 2014 that the functions related to
  support for people with disabilities and
  children, will be transferred to the Department
  of Social Development. The current Ministry of
  Women, Children and People with Disability is now
  the Ministry of Women which will be located in
  the Presidency. The Womens Ministry will
  champion the achievement of womens
  socio-economic empowerment and womens rights.
• Subsequently, on the 8th July 2014, the President
  signed a Proclamation reconfiguring the
  department to focus only on women
• The revised focus necessitated the review of the
  strategic approach of the department

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STRATEGIC FOCUS

• MANDATE
• To lead, coordinate and oversee the
  transformation agenda on womens socio-economic
  empowerment, rights and equality

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STRATEGIC FOCUS

• Vision
• A just, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous
  society where everybodys potential is equitably
  realized

• Mission
• To accelerate socio-economic transformation
  for women empowerment and participation

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SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS
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SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS
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STATUS OF WOMEN UNEMPLOYMENT IN SA

• Unemployment rate by sex

Source Stats SA- Unemployment Statistics
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STATUS OF WOMEN UNEMPLOYMENT IN SA

• Current statistics (April 2014- June 2014)
  indicates the pattern of unemployment rate of
  women remaining higher than that of men and the
  national average.
• The trend of higher unemployment rate for women
  has been persistent for more than five years.
• The number of unemployed people increased by 87
  000 between Q1 2014 and Q2 2014.
• The largest increases in unemployment were
  observed among women (56 000) compared to 31 000
  increase for men.
• These figures show that unemployment is a big
  challenge for women than it is for men and also
  show the vulnerability of women in the labour
  market.

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LEGISLATIVE CONTEXT

• Bill of Rights
• Employment Equity Act of 1998
• Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair
  Discrimination Act of 2000
• Broad Based Economic Empowerment Act of 2004

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STRATEGIC APPROACH
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STRATEGIC APPROACH

Activities Outputs Outcomes Impact
Policy Analysis Intervention Plans Analytical Reports Socio-economic empowerment of women Better quality of life for women which impacts on family life
Research Development National Agenda Report on the Status Women Research Chair setup Evidence based information to inform planning and decision making Improved service delivery to address targeted and specific issues
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STRATEGIC APPROACH

Activities Outputs Outcomes Impact
Monitoring and Evaluation ME Strategy with implementation plan Impact assessment report Tracking, measuring and determining progress on womens socio-economic empowerment and rights Identifies barriers and obstacles emerging and acts as an early warning system
Outreach Outreach Strategy with implementation plan Outreach campaigns conducted Raising awareness and increased access to information, opportunities, knowledge Changed behaviour and attitudes
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STRATEGIC APPROACH

Activities Outputs Outcomes Impact
Stakeholder Coordination Integrated Stakeholder Coordination Framework Reports on Bilateral and Multilateral Collaboration Cohesive Collaborative Interaction with key Stakeholders Informed society
Knowledge Management Information and Knowledge Management Strategy Knowledge Hub Easy access to a central depository on information on womens empowerment Effective, quick and efficient information at to inform, planning, and decision making
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ADDRESSING UNEMPLOYMENT

• The department has a programme called Techno Girl
  and Techno Girl Alumni. The programme ensures
  girls have equal opportunities to excel in the
  fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and
  Maths (STEM) by exposing them to opportunities,
  supported to continue higher education studies in
  STEM fields and facilitate learnership internship
  and job placement

• Through the Gender Responsive Budgeting
  initiative (tool)the department will require
  departments and the private sector to ensure that
  they budget for the empowerment of women by
  indicating, how much is budgeted, of the budgeted
  amount how much was used, of the used amount how
  much reached women, of the women reached how many
  were empowered and in what way

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CONCLUSION

• The Select Committee can be of great assistance
  given that the Gender Responsive Budgeting
  imperative and principles are within COGTAs MTSF
  deliverables. This also allows the Committee to
  hold all departments to account on whether their
  budgets comply to gender budgeting principles
  and also to ascertain what departments plans and
  measures are to ensure that their budgets are
  gender responsive
• The Select Committee can also assist by
  conducting an oversight on departments in
  relation to how their programmes are assisting
  women in achieving socio-economic empowerment

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THANK YOU