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Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians Meeting
30 Aug 2018
A member of the Committee on the Multiparty Women’s Caucus highlighted crucial organs of the CPA, including the different regions that these organs were a part of. Thereafter she took members of the Women’s Caucus through the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarian’s report where she underlined the various gender-based prejudices that women ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Deviations and Expansions: Office of Chief Procurement Officer briefing
28 Aug 2018
The Office of the Chief Procurement Officer in National Treasury gave a presentation outline which focused on the deviations and expansions requests made from April to June 2018 in organs of state, deviation and expansion trends, deviations supported/not supported, expansions supported/not supported, where the fault lines are and what Treasury ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Quarter 1 performance 2018/19 of departments
24 Aug 2018
The Standing Committee on Appropriations received a briefing from Parliamentary Committee Researchers on the analysis of the First Quarter Expenditure Report for the 2018/19 financial year. Most of the departments’ expenditure reports indicated either overspending or under-spending of the funds allocated to them.
There were numerous vacant positions in most ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee Report on 2018 National Budget Dialogue
5 Jun 2018
The Committee met to consider the draft report on the 2018 National Budget Dialogue, and to approve the minutes of its May meetings and its programme for the third term. Members discussed the inputs from stakeholders, and identified typographical and grammatical errors which they corrected with the Committee staff.
Highlights ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2018 Appropriation Bill: public hearings; Parliamentary Budget Office Director reappointment
18 May 2018
The Standing Committee on Appropriations held public hearings on the 2018 Appropriation Bill. There were three submissions and an input from National Treasury.
Mr Guy Harris, Education and Governance Activist, said more needed to be done with the available resources, and identified the need for much more emphasis on high ...
Multi-Party Women’s Caucus
Status of Women Report 2018; National Strategic Plan on GBV Shadow Framework by Stop Gender Violence Campaign; Sanitary products zero rating
17 May 2018
The Multiparty Women’s Caucus met to discuss the report on the 2018 Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the zero-rating of sanitary products and a presentation of the Stop Gender Violence Campaign. Members were taken through the CSW report in relation to what the 62nd session fo the CSW ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
2018 National Budget Dialogue
16 May 2018
Report of the meeting to follow.
Standing Committee on Appropriations
NDP & Annual Performance Plan alignment: DPME briefing
15 May 2018
The Committee received a briefing from the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) on the alignment of the annual performance plans (APP)s of departments with the National Development Plan (NDP) goals, the medium term strategic framework (MTSF) and the Budget.
The DPME highlighted misalignments between the Estimates of National ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Appropriation Bill 2018: input from Human Sciences Research Council & DA
11 May 2018
The Standing Committee on Appropriations was briefed by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) on the 2018 Appropriation Bill. The Committee also considered DA proposals on the Appropriations Bill.
HSRC raised a number of pertinent socio-economic issues relating to early childhood development (ECD), post-school education, land reform and the wider ...
Standing Committee on Appropriations
Appropriation Bill 2018: input from Public Service Commission; Parliamentary Budget Office
9 May 2018
The Public Service Commission (PSC) gave its comments on the 2018 Appropriations Bill to the Committee. The presentation covered the PSC’s areas of oversight and the outputs of its oversight function. The PSC acknowledged that it was not a financial institution, but was the custodian of good administration and would ...