How can annual reports help in ensuring gender responsive budgeting?

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How can annual reports help in ensuringgender
responsive budgeting?

• Joint Monitoring Committee on Improvement of
  Quality of Life Status of Women
• 16 November 2007

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Workshop programme

• Focus
• Using annual reports to monitor budgets from a
  gender perspective
• Sessions
• Presentation
• Group work
• Plenary report back discussion
• Summary presentation

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Five steps of GRB

1. Describe the situation of women men, girls
   boys in the sector
2. Assess whether the programmes address the gender
   gaps issues
3. Allocate adequate budget for the gender-sensitive
   programmes
4. Monitor whether the money is spent and what is
   done with it
5. Evaluate whether the money has changed the bad
   aspects of the situation described in step1

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How can annual report be used?

• Annual report assists with step four (and five)
• Budget is tabled in February
• It provides plan in terms of money to be spent
  and what to be achieved (physical targets)
• Annual report is produced in September after end
  of financial year
• It reports on money spent physical targets
  achieved
• Step 4 is key part of parliamentary oversight

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Focus on Safety Security

• Reasons
• Crime is recognised as a serious problem in the
  country
• Gender-based violence (GBV), in particular, is a
  focus for the Committee
• Annual report is available on web (why not
  others?)
• SS is interesting as it requires more than
  simple analysis of money allocated for women
  because money used to address GBV is included in
  allocations that address other issues as well
• But we must also look at special allocations e.g.
  Gender Equity in Education

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SS 2006/07 budget

• Four programmes
• Administration R10 522 060
• Visible Policing R14 426 449 (44 of total)
• Detective Services R5 279 606 (16 of total)
• Crime Intelligence R1119 440
• Protection Security Services R 1 210 176
• (All amounts R000)

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Visible policing

• Crime Prevention R12 838 187
• (89 of this programme, 45 of total SS budget)
• Funds services at police stations
• Borderline Security R76 171
• Specialised Interventions R1 512 091
• (All amounts R000)

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Detective Services

• General Investigations R3 256 143
• (62 of this programme)
• Funds detectives at police stations
• Specialised Investigations R1 285 850
• Criminal Record Centre R495 950
• Forensic Science Laboratory R241 659
• (All amounts R000)

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Targets Crime Prevention

• Include
• Contact crimes reduced by 7 per year
• No gender-related measurable objectives

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Targets General Investigations

• 40 of sexual offences against children detected
• 30 of charges for sexual offences against
  children to court
• 42 of sexual offences against adult women
  detected
• 40 of charges for sexual offences against adult
  women to court
• These targets are higher than those for organised
  crime commercial crime

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Text General Investigations

• Increased budget is partly explained by planned
  improvement of functions of family violence,
  child protection sexual offences units
• Do these units still exist?

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Issues to consider

• How many of reported achievements relate to
  events?
• How many of reported achievements relate to
  development policy documents?
• How many of reported achievements relate to
  actual delivery?
• Are some groups/areas left out?
• Is under-delivery explained?
• Remember to look at indicators AND narrative!

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Questions for group work

• What is GOOD about what is reported?
• What is DISTURBING about what is reported?
• What further information would you like to have?

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General observations on SS

• Crime statistics are sometimes difficult to
  interpret
• Is increase in rate of reported rape good or bad?
• Does it mean number of rapes is increasing?
• Does it mean that victims more willing to report?
• Generally, women tend to be more worried about
  personal (contact) crimes, while men worry more
  about property crimes

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Crime reported

• Rape decreased by 4.2
• Indecent assault decreased by 4.5
• This is less than targeted 7 reduction
• Reduction by 7 plus
• Rape Only three provinces
• Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Western Cape
• Indecent assault Only three provinces
• Mpumalanga, Free State, Western Cape

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Arrests

• 19 629 for rape and attempted rape
• 1 953 for indecent assault
• No targets are given, and no statistics for
  previous years
• The number of rape is almost exactly the same as
  the number for murder

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Anti-rape strategy domestic violence

• Awareness campaigns (67 or 2 151?)
• 16 Days of Activism
• Training for SAPS on domestic violence
• Workshops in Mpumalanga but not other provinces?
• 56 projects to reduce domestic violence
• Only three provinces mentioned?

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Investigation achievements

• Detection of sexual offences against children
  62.4 of target
• Charges to court for sexual offences against
  children to court 45.1 of target
• Detection of sexual offences against adult women
  60.7 of target
• Charges to court for sexual offences against
  adult women 44.8 of target

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Family violence sexual offences

• Only 1 954 cases finalised in court
• (yet 52 617 reported rapes, and rape is not the
  only type of case!)
• 2 599 cases finalised in 2005/06
• drop in cases finalised is greater than drop in
  cases reported

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What do we want to see?

• More gender-related targets in budget and in
  annual report
• Sex-disaggregation of achievements (e.g. are
  people arrested convicted male or female)
• Timely production of annual reports by all
  departments
• What else?