Cabinet commends progress in gender mainstreaming

• Published date: 26 May 2022
• Publication title: South African Official News

Cabinet has commended great progress made by a number of government departments in institutionalising the Framework on Gender Responsive Planning, Budgeting, Monitoring Evaluation and Audit.

The framework, which was adopted in 2019 for implementation, places gender mainstreaming at the centre of public policy by putting forward a strategy and implementation plan towards gender responsiveness of existing planning, budgeting, monitoring, evaluation and auditing systems.

Briefing the media on the outcomes of a Cabinet meeting held on Wednesday, Minister in the Presidency, Mondli Gungubele said Cabinet has received the progress report on the implementation of the framework. He said more departments have since put in place policy priorities to guide the mainstreaming programmes targeting women, youth and persons with disabilities.

'Cabinet has called for tighter monitoring and reporting, especially on some of the departments that have not yet reported,' Gungubele said on Thursday.

Mine Water Management Policy

Cabinet has also approved the Mine Water Management Policy of 2022 for implementation.

The policy provides mechanisms to protect and conserve water usage, and balances the mine economic activities with the mandate to provide sustainable water usage for the country.

Amongst other interventions, the policy clarifies the roles and responsibilities within the three spheres of government with regard to mine water issues.

'The proposed changes will resolve the challenges of instituting sanctions on polluters and make it easy to invoke the polluter pays principle. The policy is developed in...