WCG DoTP APP 2023/2024

6.2.4.

Interventions relating to women, children, youth and people with disabilities

The department will continue to institutionalise the national Framework for Gender Responsive Planning, Budgeting, Monitoring, Evaluation and Auditing and the related province-specific Framework for the Implementation of Human Rights of Priority Groups in the Western Cape. Risk based audits will inform the roll-out of focused interventions. The department further ensured that the PSP under the wellbeing priority, put particular focus on the successful implementation of initiatives aimed at violence prevention programmes and interventions, both in the design and implementation of the programmes. Aligning to the strategic approach recommended by international and local evidence of what works to reduce violence, the Policy and Strategy Unit will continue to focus on (i) strengthening parent-child relationships, (ii) better supporting youth at-risk earlier in their trajectory of risk, (iii) reducing alcohol-related harms, and (iv) reducing gender-based violence. It will also continue supporting the effective coordination and implementation of the Safety Plan, including support to the operationalisation of the Violence Prevention Unit and eradicating Gender-Based Violence. It will continue to provide policy and strategy support in the further development of initiatives and pilots, particularly in collaboration with the Department of Social Development. The department has representation on the Provincial Human Rights Forum and is the lead assigned for Gender and Human Rights. Internally, a Women's Empowerment committee was established to champion initiatives in the department toward gender mainstreaming awareness and activities, develop and implement a comprehensive plan to empower women in the department and to facilitate capacity development for women’s advancement and gender equality. The PDO supports the agenda of human rights mainstreaming. To this end, a basket of performance indicators and outcome indicators that serve as proxy indicators for gender, youth, people with disabilities (particularly as it relates to accessibility) and children are in place for application by policy planners. Furthermore, a data management plan provides a framework to measure human rights. An approved WCG Evaluation Guideline: Addressing the needs of priority groups (women, children, people with disabilities and older persons) in government-led evaluations is in place. The department fulfils a provincial transversal role in the coordination of commemorative days programmes, advocacy and awareness e.g. 16 days of Activism, Women’s Month etc. It will also continue to support the agenda of the African Peer Review Mechanism which second country review report (2014-2021) found that women, children and the youth are disproportionately affected by poverty, crime and unemployment.

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DOTP ANNUAL PERFORMANCE PLAN FOR 2023/2024