The purpose of the Women's Empowerment and Gender Equality programme is to facilitate the translation of national and international commitments into empowerment and socio-economic development programmes as well as to oversee and report comprehensively on national realisation of women's rights and the progressive realization of equality. The overall budget for WEGE is R79.63 million. It should be noted that the transfer payment for the Commission for Gender Equality amounts to R58.5 million, which constitutes 73.6% of this programme budget. The programme therefore has an operating budget of R20.9 million.