The Department of Basic Education in partnership with Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities (DWYPD) held an inclusive education summit to assess progress on the implementation of inclusive education. Gaps, challenges, immediate to long-term interventions were identified and are under implementation by Department of Basic Education.

The DWYPD is in continuous collaborations with the National and Provincial Departments of Basic Education and ...

1 & 2  The Department of Basic Education issued the attached Press Statement on 16

November 2022 wherein the department indicated that the matter was taken out of context and the subject of single sex toilets was extracted out of a myriad of issues in the discussion document which is yet to be formally released. These are draft guidelines for the socio-educational inclusion of ...

a) The Department facilitated the development of Comprehensive National Gender Based Violence and Femicide Preventions Strategy. The strategy identifies prevention mechanisms that will foster effective collaboration of stakeholders in order to address the issues of prevention of GBVF, including protection of women and children. The department is in the process of consulting stakeholders who are key in the fight against gender based violence in ...

1. Shelters and interim housing arrangements do not fall within the department’s remit. However, the Department in its key role in overseeing the implementation of the National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide took the initiative and reached out to the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure pertaining the availability of unused government buildings to be used as shelters for abused women. Specifically, ...

In light of the department’s regulatory mandate, we have set out to ensure monitoring and evaluation is a key component of our work. It is important to note that the department is not a service delivery department, but play a key coordination and oversight role.

The department has been at the forefront of coordinating the implementation of the National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence ...

The monitoring mandate of the Department is a function concerned with tracking and reporting on progress and regress on targets as well as providing technical support on the development of National and Provincial Strategic Plans and Annual Performance Plans. These are key enablers to systemic changes to mainstream disability considerations.

There are currently engagements between the Department of Public Service and Administration, Department of ...