Transcript Gender Barometer: 2013/2014

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Current status quo in terms of the 2014, 50:50 gender parity
goal
Sector
Currently
In parliament
44 percent in the 2009
elections
to 40 percent in the 7
May 2014 polls,
In provinces
Dropped from41%
To 37%
Cabinet remains at 51%
The proportion of women
premiers dropped from 55
percent in 2009
to 22 percent in
2014.
In the 2011 local elections,
women's representation
dropped from 40 percent to
To 38%
Out of the 249 ANC seats at
national level,
115 (46 percent) are held by
women. This is a four percent
decline from 2009.
In DA Women hold only 27 of the
89 seats (30 percent). ent in 2009
to 31 percent in 2014.
At provincial level, women's
representation in the DA declined
by four percentage points from
35%
EFF got a whopping 25 seats in
parliament
of which only nine (35 percent) are
held by women
IFP out of the 10 seats in
parliament,
only two seats (21 percent) are
held by women.
Central Government(quota: 30%)
 DG’s/PS: 34
 Directors:35,9
2. public/civil service commission:41,7%
3. IEC: 40%
4. Peace and Security Missions(UN and AU Operations)
 Individual force:20.7%
 Experts missions:23.3%
 Contingent troops:17.4%
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5.Tertiary education(universities/technickons)
 Research and academic staff: range between
30%-48%
 SADC Gender Protocol: SA signed
on17/08/08; ratified in 2011
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South Africa does not has legislation
enforcing political parties, to stick to the
quota system in their electoral party lists
The main opposition Democratic Alliance
(DA) has always been averse to quotas
Agang, led by a woman, only got two seats.
However party leader Mamphela Ramphele,
said she is not going to Parliament because
she wants to reflect on her party's
disappointing performance, and is putting
forward two male MPs.
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There is a need for an overarching strategy
that responds to all of the above-cited
strategic deficits and which enables the
MPWC to take a leading role in driving the
gender and poverty agenda beyond 2015. Of
relevance in determining such a strategy are
the priorities and areas of focus being
discussed and debated currently, which
include the following
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Globally, the focus is on the shape and nature
of global development beyond 2015/ after
the Millennium Development Goals. Here the
thinking is informed by global considerations
such as:
The Human Development Report (HDR), which
highlights challenges confronting the entire
world, the ‘three E's’ economic (finances,
mainly in Europe and trickle down globally)
energy (lack of alternative energy sources)
and ecology (climate change).
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These are affecting all countries, specifically
developing countries, specifically poor
women.
The June 2012 United Nations Conference on
Sustainable Development, known as Rio+20,
adopted a stand-alone Sustainable
Development Goal to ‘attain gender equality
[and] empower women and girls everywhere’.
This goal has been unpacked into 11 specific
gender targets.
Post 2015 poverty and gender agenda should have
the following characteristics:
It should:
 Leave no one behind( be inclusive of gender, race,
age, ethnicity, etc)/ from basic economic
opportunities
 Put sustainable development at the core
 Transform economies for jobs and inclusive growth
 Build peace and effective, open and accountable
institution for all
 Forge new global partnerships, which will be
inclusive of all
A transformative goal on gender equality
built on the premise of a human rights
approach to development that seeks to:
End all forms of sexual and gender basedviolence faced by all women and girls by
2030;
Ensure women and girls have access to,
control over and ownership of productive
resources including land, credit, energy,
information and technology;
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b)
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c) Ensure 50% representation of women in decision-making
across all sectors by 2030*+98/
d) Recognition, redistribution and remuneration for unpaid care
work for women and girls.
2. Eliminate legal, social and economic barriers that prevent
women and girls from accessing their sexual and
reproductive health rights as well as integrated services.
3. Gender mainstreaming throughout all proposed goals that
would lead to social, economic and environmental
transformation, achieved through identifying specific gender
targets as well as disaggregated gender sensitive indicators
that would curb the persistence of gender inequalities,
discrimination and unequal development progress between
women and men, girls and boys
Challenges
Progress
Constitutional and legal rights, e.g.
ratification of SGP, child marriages,
Child birth rights, death and
inheritance rights, etc
There is good progress, most SADC
countries have human rights friendly
constitutions, articulate issue of nondiscrimination, specifically because of
gender; 13 of the 15 SADC Countries
have AA provision in their constitution
Governance ratification of the SGP;
electoral systems, quota’s unregulated,
lack of political will
Slight regress by SADC from 2nd to 3rd
place comparing with Nordic countries
and America; SA has been the 2nd in
the region and 3rd continentally;
estimates suggest that by the end of
2015 SADC countries will just fall short
of the original 30% target and not
reach the 50% as well
Education and training: gender
parity in education remains a hot
potato; human rights approach to
education is a call by CSO
Good patches of progress, e.g. SA
is amongst the countries which
have higher proportion of women
in tertiary
Productive resources and
employment, economic
empowerment; representation of
women in economic decisionmaking positions, , e.g. 2 finance
minister in the region, 3 central
bankers in the region(SA, Botswana
and Lesotho)
Regionally, women in economic
decision-making increased from
18%-26% in 2014; but there is a
room for improvement
Women account for a large proportion
of informal and cross border traders;
no proper laws, resources and
infrastructure to support them; trade
laws are gender blind, countries like
SA, Namibia, Zimbabwe have women
friendly procurement policies; land
ownership progress remains patchy but
there are countries making progress,
e.g. ranging between11% and 25%
Sychelles, DRC, Tanzania; SA is
making some progress, Zimbabwe
program is gender-neutral
Gender-based violence: prevalence
varies, country by country, e.g.
Mauritius 25% and about 89% in
Zambia, is a huge problem in the
Region; it is a major cause for spiraling
figures of HIV infections; policies and
practices remain a challenge;
attitudinal beliefs are also a challenge
Gap between policies and practices
Lack of proper baseline studies on
GBV
Sexual and reproductive health;,
Countries such as SA lead in these
access to contraceptives; regulated areas
safe legal abortions
HIV/AIDS: SADC remains the highly Efforts to roll-out treatment and
awareness-raising make demonstrable
region of the world, TB as well
impact
Gender, climate change and
sustainable development; poor
developing countries specifically
poor women affected by disasters
This should be included in the
revised protocol; preparedness/
having plans that gender
responsive
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In the SADC Region, after intensive data
collection and analysis, important
stakeholders that met proposed that the
SADC Gender Protocol be packaged into
clusters, themes, targets and quantifiable
indicators. It is recommended that the
clusters include the following:
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Gender responsive governance, e.g.
Economic and climate justice
Women’s rights
Voice/communication
Gender management systems.
Cluster
Theme
Targets
Indicators
1. Gender
responsive
governance
•Constitutional and legal rights
•Governance
•Peace and security(gender
responsive definition)
20
11
13
21
20
15
2. Economic and
climate change
•Education and training(awarenessraising)
•Economic Justice(inclusive
approaches)
•Sustainable development and
climate change(gender responsive )
4
14
25
10
28
30
3. women’s rights
•Gender Based Violence
•Sexual and Reproductive Health
•HIV and AIDS
15
11
13
100
25
22
4. Voice
•Media and ITC
16
20
5. Gender
management
system
•Implementation, M&E
8
9
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Continentally the African Common Position in
as far as gender equality is concerned,
prioritizes the following (based on the
outcomes of the consultative meetings
convened by the African Union) :
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Adoption of a human rights approach to
gender equality, which has been unpacked
into 4 targets
Adoption of a reproductive and sexual rights
approach to gender equality
Gender mainstreaming, has been, once more
adopted as a strategy for gender equality