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Title: DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT


1
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
  • Presentation to the Joint Monitoring Committee on
    the Improvement of the Status of Women
  • Public Hearings on HIV/AIDS
  • 25 September 2001

2
Overview
  • Gender inequality and HIV/AIDS
  • Impact of HIV/AIDS on women
  • Response of the Department
  • Challenges

3
Gender and HIV/AIDS
  • Gender inequality
  • Increase womens risk of contracting HIV/AIDS
  • Limit womens access to resources for coping with
    HIV/AIDS
  • Increase womens share of burden
  • HIV/AIDS perpetuates and exacerbates gender
    inequality

4
Women and Poverty
  • Women are more likely to poor
  • Studies on poverty in SA show that the poorest
    households are usually headed by women
  • Education opportunities for girls are increasing,
    but not commensurate with opportunities for boys
  • Women in employment are likely to earn less than
    their male counterparts

5
Violence against women
  • Women and girls are more likely to be victims of
    domestic violence and sexual abuse than men
  • Women and girls are more likely to be victims of
    rape than men

6
Impact of HIV/AIDS on women
  • Increased risk of contracting HIV/AIDS
  • Reports on other countries suggest higher
    infection rates amongst teenage girls and young
    women than their male counterparts
  • Reports suggest that this derives from womens
    social and economic status relative to men

7
Impact of HIV/AIDS on women
  • Infected women are likely to
  • Lose jobs if they had them
  • Stigmatised as spreaders of HIV/AIDS
  • No access to social assistance other than
    applying for disability grants for themselves of
    Child Support Grant if they have children under 7
    years
  • Unless they have access to food and health care,
    their life expectancy is reduced drastically.
    Impact extends to their children
  • Fear of what will happen to their children when
    they die

8
Impact of HIV/AIDS on women
  • Women are expected to be the caregivers
  • Disruption of education of girls
  • Loss of jobs/reduced earnings
  • Grandmothers have to support grandchildren often
    on a single social grant

9
Departments Response
  • Responses attempt to address the immediate needs
    of women infected and affected by HIV/AIDS as
    well as the broader issue of gender inequality
  • Responses are mainstreamed in Departments
    framework for combating HIV/AIDS
  • Departments responses are informed by
    interactions with affected women and communities

10
Departments Response
  • Home-Based/Community-Based Care
  • Poverty alleviation programmes focused on
    HIV/AIDS and economic empowerment of women
  • Advocacy campaigns and partnerships with Women
    (including young women)
  • Improving access to social assistance
  • Victim Empowerment and Domestic Violence
  • Training and building capability
  • Research and information

11
Home-Based and Community-Based Care
  • 3 programmes
  • Joint projects with Department of Health and
    provinces
  • Projects funded and managed by National
    Department using HIV/AIDS funds (5 projects)
  • National Projects funded from Poverty Relief Fund
    17 projects (Provinces also have HIV/AIDS
    related projects funded from Poverty Relief Fund)

12
Home-Based and Community-Based Care
  • Target groups are vulnerable children and women
  • Assistance provided to women
  • Material assistance (mainly food)
  • Counseling and support groups
  • Accessing social assistance, welfare services and
    poverty alleviation programmes
  • Home-based care for women and their families
  • Information to assist women as caregivers
  • Life skills to prevent infection

13
Coverage of Joint Projects
Province 2000/2001 2001/2002
Eastern Cape Tsolo District Estimated beneficiaries 50 families and 47 orphans Mhlakulo Butterworth
Free State Welkom District Estimated beneficiaries 210 children and their families/caregivers QwaQwa Sasolburg Odendaalsrus Virginia Theunissen Bultfontein
Gauteng - Alexandra Carleton Sebokeng Bronkspruit/ Cullinan
14
Coverage of Joint Projects
Province 2000/2001 2001/2002
KwaZulu-Natal - Ndumu Moyeni Nseleni, Nduduzweni Bhambayi, Khanyeselani Mpendle Portshepstone/Kokstad Pietermaritzburg
Mpumalanga Tonga District 34 projects Estimated beneficiaries2816 children Matibidi Mmamthlake KwaMhlanga Eerstehoek
Northern Cape De Aar Diamond Fields Namaqualand
15
Coverage of Joint Projects
Province 2000/2001 2001/2002
Northern Province Maraba Mashashane Westernburg Seshego 1120 children Dwarsloop Acornhoek Dzanani Messina Nylstroom Potgietersrus
North West Jouberton Klerksdorp 115 children Brits Zeerust Vryburg
Western Cape - All regions of Province will be covered
16
Poverty Relief Programme
  • PRP has targeted women since its inception.
    About two-thirds of beneficiaries of Departments
    programme are women.
  • From 1998/99 to 2000/2001
  • Managed R363 million in PRP funds
  • 2868 projects to value of R329.795 m
  • Payments of R289.913 m to projects

17
Poverty Relief Programme
  • In 2000/2001
  • Transferred R9.73 million to HIV/AIDS projects
    initiated by communities and Faith-Based
    Organisations
  • Womens Flagship Programme
  • Funded from PRP and special allocation for
    Flagship Programme
  • 16 Projects operating (2 per province, except KZN
    and Northern Cape)
  • 801 women and 913 children benefiting

18
Poverty Relief Programme
  • 2001/02 to 2003/04
  • Support income-generation activities for women in
    rural areas (100 projects)
  • Establish 144 rural food production clusters of
    100 households each, with emphasis on households
    affected by HIV/AIDS
  • Support 100 community-based projects providing
    care and support for households affected by
    HIV/AIDS

19
Social Assistance
  • Women are significant proportion of social
    assistance beneficiaries either directly or
    through their role as caregivers
  • Information and communication campaigns to inform
    women about social grants, especially Child
    Support Grant
  • Limitations of coverage of grants in context of
    HIV/AIDS are being investigated by Committee of
    Inquiry into Comprehensive Social Security
  • Improving administration of social security

20
Victim Empowerment
  • VEP provides care and support and life skills for
    women (and children) who are subjected to abuse
  • 66 projects at provincial level providing 24hr
    one-stop service for women (reach 2500 per month)
  • 34 National Projects include
  • Trained 225 social workers and lay counselors in
    Domestic Violence Act
  • Directory of Services produced
  • Survey on shelters for abused women

21
Advocacy work Partnerships
  • 16 Days of Activism on No violence against
    women includes men as partners in combating
    violence against women and sharing responsibility
    to reduce HIV/AIDS
  • Working on partnership with LoveLife
  • Training girls and boys as groundbreakers to
    promote HIV/AIDS awareness
  • Life skills training
  • Involving youth in Home-Based and Community-Based
    Care Programmes

22
Advocacy work Partnerships
  • Partnerships with aid organisations
  • Partnership with Faith-Based Organisations
  • Already supporting HIV/AIDS projects of FBOs
  • Working with FBOs to involve them more
    comprehensively in HIV/AIDS programmes

23
Building capacity
  • Home-Based Care and Poverty Relief Programmes
    include building capacity of women
  • Launched HIV/AIDS Capacity Building Programme for
    government officials includes understanding
    impact of HIV/AIDS on women
  • Requests received to extend programme to NGOs and
    CBOs

24
Information Base
  • Started audit/survey of all HBC and CBC projects
    in country (with Department of Health)
  • Survey identifies services offered, target
    groups, sources of funding, governance
    structures, etc
  • Survey will be used to scale up response and
    identify areas not covered
  • Survey will serve as basis for monitoring system

25
Budget Allocation
Programme Budget Allocation
HBC / Community-Based Care 2000/01 R6.8 million 2001/02 R13.4 million
Poverty Relief Programme 2000/01 R120 million plus R37.678 million roll-over from 1999/2000 2001/02 R50 million. Of this, R10 million is for Flagship type projects R5 million is for community HIV/AIDS support R10.88 million is for food security
Flagship Programme 2000/01 R1.612 million plus R650 000 from Poverty Relief allocation 2001/02 Integrated with PRP
Victim Empowerment 2000/01 R2.3 million 2001/2002 Nil
26
Budget Allocation
  • Women also benefit through social assistance
  • Child Support Grant 1 078 884 beneficiaries at
    1 April 2001, paid R117.809 million in 2000/2001
  • Aged Pension 1 882 188 beneficiaries at 1 April
    2001. Assuming 50 are women, benefits to women
    were R522.423 million
  • Care dependency grant 30 269 beneficiaries at 1
    April 2001, paid R18.76 million

27
Challenges and Responses
  • Addressing the problem of stigma
  • Provide tangible assistance to people affected
    (access to social grants, counseling, health
    care, etc)
  • Education of communities where HBC and CBC
    projects are located
  • Support to National campaigns
  • Young men as partners in fight
  • Faith-Based Organisations

28
Challenges and Responses
  • Scaling up response to meet demand
  • Direct more support to community-initiated
    projects
  • Strengthen partnership with FBOs
  • Other partnerships with business and labour
  • Promoting volunteerism and involvement of youth

29
Challenges and Responses
  • Ensuring protection of children
  • Prioritise orphans and infected children in new
    Child Care legislation
  • National guidelines and protocols to apply to all
    HBC and CBC projects funded by government

30
Challenges and Responses
  • Access to social assistance
  • Interim national procedures for dealing with
    applications for disability grants and social
    relief in distress
  • Mechanisms to check that participants who are
    eligible for social assistance receive grants
  • Long term options on grants being investigated by
    Committee on Social Security

31
Challenges and Responses
  • Food security
  • Strengthen food security component of HBC and CBC
    Programme
  • Integrated Food Security Strategy being developed
    by government
  • Budgetary issues
  • Discussions with Treasury on funding for HBC and
    increasing social relief budgets
  • Lack of funding for Victim Empowerment Programme

32
Concluding Remarks
  • Combating HIV/AIDS and its impact on women
    requires us to change the daily reality of many
    women
  • Their access to resources they need to fight
    poverty
  • Their status in society
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