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Social Development
Children’s Amendment Bill: DSD response to issues raised during public hearings (postponed)
23 Feb 2022
DSD response to to issues raised during public hearings (document not made public)
In this virtual meeting, the Department was supposed to brief the Committee on its response to issues raised during the public hearings.
However, Members voiced concerns that many of the issues raised in the public hearings were ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities Quarter 2 and 3 2021/22 Performance
22 Feb 2022
The Portfolio Committee convened in a virtual meeting to be briefed on the quarter-two and quarter-three performance reports of the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (DWYPD).
The Department's audit and risk committee presented its findings for the second quarter of the 2021/22 financial year. Management reported and provided ...
Social Development
Children’s Amendment Bill: legal expert on harmonisation of age; Committee Report on provincial public hearings
16 Feb 2022
The Committee received a briefing by the law expert on children’s rights, Prof Ann Skelton, on the harmonisation of age in the Children’s Amendment Bill. Members raised comments made at the provincial public hearings where some parents felt that the law removed their role of protecting their children such ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
CGE Reports on Transformation in Public and Private Sector, State of Shelter in SA
15 Feb 2022
Commission for Gender Equality Progress Report: Transformation in the Public and Private Sector
Commission for Gender Equality Progress Report on State of Shelter in South Africa-2021
The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) briefed the Portfolio Committee in a virtual meeting on two progress reports regarding gender transformation ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
CGE Reports on Elections and Gender Mainstreaming; Country Compliance with CEDAW & Government GBV Response Plan; SAHRC Report on security in schools for children with disabilities
8 Feb 2022
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
CGE Reports on Women Representation in Politics, Welfare Services for female offenders in correctional centres
1 Feb 2022
CGE Report – Elections and Gender Mainstreaming: Assessing gender issues and women’s representation in South Africa’s 2019 Elections
CGE Report – Balancing the Scales: Reviewing development in women’s representation in Politics and Government 2014 to 2019 Elections
CGE Report – Gender Transformation in Tertiary Institutions for 2018/19
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
CGE Reports on Gender Transformation in Procurement, Tertiary Institutions & Traditional Leadership
25 Jan 2022
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CGE Report on Gender Transformation on Procurement for 2018/19
CGE Report on Gender Transformation in Tertiary Institutions for 2018/19
The Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth and ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
SADC Protocol on Gender and Development: Parliamentary Legal Services, DWYPD, DHA & DoJ&CS
30 Nov 2021
SADC Protocol on Gender and Development
The Committee met virtually to be briefed by stakeholders on SA as a signatory to the SADC Protocol on Gender Development. The Protocol seeks to provide for the empowerment of women; the elimination of discrimination and the achievement of gender ...
Social Development
Social Development BRRR; Committee Report Quarter 3 & 4 Performance of Department and entities
24 Nov 2021
2021 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Portfolio Committee on Social Development went through its Budgetary Review and Recommendations Report for the social development portfolio for the 2020/21 Financial Year. Members resolved to have a follow-up meeting with the Department of Social Development and the ...
Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities
DWYPD BRRR
23 Nov 2021
2021 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
The Committee met on a virtual platform to consider and adopt its Budgetary Review Recommendations Report (BRRR) and to consider and adopt meeting minutes from previous meetings. Members expressed the need to capture the continuity of the monitoring and evaluation processes in ...