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South African Government Policy: Library Guide: Women & Gender

Bibliographic records and links of South African government policies, plans and strategies

Programmes

South Africa. Parliament. 3rd National Men's Parliament. Takuwani Riime Programme of Action 2023-2025. Cape Town: Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, November 2023. 

Draft policies

Gender policy considerations, June 1997 : draft discussion paper for public consultation. Pretoria: Gender Unit, Department of Justice, 1997. Shelf no. G 68 E.JUST.97.GEND

City of Cape Town. Women’s empowerment and gender equality : a draft policy discussion document for the City of Cape Town. [Cape Town : City of Cape Town, 2004?]

Budgeting

South Africa. Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities. Framework on gender-responsive planning, budgeting, monitoring, evaluation and auditing. Pretoria: Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, December 2018.

South Africa. Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities. Gender Responsive Planning, Budgeting, Monitoring, Evaluation & Auditing Framework and Country Gender Indicator Framework. Presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities 7 October 2020.

 

Climate change

Economic empowerment

South Africa. Department of Women, Children and Persons with Disabilities. Draft communication strategy: accelerating socio-economic empowerment of women.  Pretoria: Department of Women, Children and Persons with Disabilities, January 2016.

Executive summary : draft strategic framework on gender and women’s economic empowerment. Pretoria?: Department of Trade and Industry, 2006. Shelf no. G 68 E.INDU.06.

Executive summary: draft strategic framework on gender and women's economic empowerment. Pretoria: Department of Trade and Industry, 2007.

Strategic framework on gender & women's economic empowerment. Presentation by Mmabatho Matiwane, 2006?

KwaZulu-Natal. KwaZulu-Natal Women Economic Empowerment Strategy (2014-2018). [Pietermaritzburg]: Province of KwaZulu-Natal, 2014. Final draft. 

Energy

South Africa. Department of Mineral Resources and Energy. Women empowerment and gender equality strategy for the energy sector, 2021-2025. Pretoria:  Department of Mineral Resources and Energy, 2021.

South Africa. Department of Energy. Energy sector discussion paper on Women empowerment and gender equality strategy. Pretoria : Department of Energy, [2017?]

Presentation: The Draft energy gender strategy presented at Women in Energy Dialogue, Albert Luthuli ICC, Durban, 11 August 2017

South Africa. Department of Energy. Policy framework for women empowerment and gender equality. Pretoria: Department of Energy, 2016. (Policy No. 03 of 2016)

Strategies

South Africa. Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities. Strategy for economic empowerment of women, youth and persons with disabilities (WYPD). Pretoria: Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, 2024?

Policies

South Africa’s national policy framework for women’s empowerment and gender equality. Pretoria?: The Office on the Status of Women?, 2001. Shelf no. G 68 E.PRES.01.SOUT

Gender policy statement : balancing the scales of justice through gender equality. 2nd ed. Pretoria: Directorate Publications for the Chief Directorate: Transfromation Equity, Dept. of Justice, 1999. Shelf no. G 68 E.JUST.99.GEND

Environment

South Africa. Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment. National Gender Policy Framework (archived webpage)

South Africa. Department of Environmental Affairs. Strategy toward gender mainstreaming in the environment sector 2016 – 2021. Pretoria : Department of Environmental Affairs, 2016.

South Africa. Department of Environmental Affairs. Environment sector framework for women empowerment and gender equality : first draft. Pretoria : Department of Environmental Affairs, December 2013.

South African National Biodiversity Institute. Gender mainstreaming policy. Pretoria: SANBI, November 2015.

Financial inclusion

South Africa. Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities. Women's financial inclusion framework, 2019/2020

South Africa. Department of Women, Children and Persons with Disabilities. Women's financial inclusion framework, 2019. Pretoria: Department of Women, Children and Persons with Disabilities, 2019.

Gender-based violence

Western Cape. [Draft] Western Cape Government Gender-Based Violence Implementation Plan. Cape Town: Ministry of Social Development, [2022.]

End GBVF Collective

Presidential Summit on Gender-based Violence and Femicide 2, 1-2 November 2022. 

Presidential Summit on Gender-based Violence and Femicide 2, 1-2 November 2022. Summit Resolutions

Presidential Summit on Gender-based Violence and Femicide 2.  Summit Resolutions, 1-2 November 2022: accountability, acceleration and amplification now!

South Africa. National strategic plan on gender-based violence & femicide, 2020-2030. Pretoria: Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, 2020.

South Africa. National strategic plan on gender-based violence & femicide: human dignity and healing, safety, freedom & equality in our lifetime, 11 March 2020.

South Africa. National strategic plan on gender-based violence & femicide: human dignity and healing, safety, freedom & equality in our lifetime. Pretoria: Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, 2020.

Overview of National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide Roll-Out, Year 1, 1 May 2020-31 April 2021

South Africa. Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities. Progress on the implementation of the National strategic plan on gender-based violence  and femicide (GBVF-NSP). Presentation by the Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities to the Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, 3 September 2020.

South Africa. Emergency response action plan on gender-based violence and femicide, 30 April 2020. Pretoria: Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, 2020

South Africa.  Interim Steering Committee on Gender-based Violence and Femicide. National gender-based violence & femicide strategic plan, 2020-2030: draft. Draft 1, 12 August 2019. [Pretoria: Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, 2019.]

South Africa. The Presidency. Emergency plan to protect women and children, 19 September 2019 (announcement)

Western Cape. Department of Social Development. Western Cape Government Gender-Based Violence Implementation Plan. Cape Town: Department of Social Development, 2020?

South Africa. Department of Higher Education and Training. Policy Framework to address Gender -Based Violence in the Post -School Education and Training System. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training, July 2020. (General notice 410 of 2020, SA Government Gazette No. 43575 of 31 July 2020.)

South Africa. Department of Higher Education and Training. Policy Framework to address Gender-Based Violence in the Post-School Education and Training System. Version 4.0 For Public Comments. Pretoria: Department of Higher Education and Training, 15 April 2019.

 

Gender-responsive planning

South Africa. Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities. Framework on Gender-Responsive Planning, Budgeting, Monitoring, Evaluation and Auditing. [May 2020]

South Africa. Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities. Framework on gender-responsive planning, budgeting, monitoring, evaluation and auditing. Pretoria: Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, December 2018.

South Africa. Department of Women. (Draft) gender responsive planning & budgeting framework. Pretoria: Department of Women, 201-?

Health

South Africa. Department of Health. National Integrated Sexual & Reproductive Health and Rights Policy. Pretoria: Department of Health, 2019.

South Africa. Department of Women, Children and Persons with Disabilities. Sanitary dignity implementation framework, September 2019.

South Africa. Department of Women, Children and Persons with Disabilities. Sanitary dignity framework. June 2019.

South Africa. Department of Women. Draft sanitary dignity framework. June 2017. Version 1

South Africa. Department of Health. National Contraception and Fertility Planning Policy and Service Delivery Guidelines. 2012. 

Human settlements

South Africa. Department of Human Settlements. National Women in Human Settlements Programme: Framework for the Empowerment and Participation of Women in Human Settlements Delivery. Pretoria: Department of Human Settlements, 2009?

Local government

South Africa. Department of Provincial and Local Government. Gender policy framework for local government. Pretoria: Department of Provincial and Local Government, [2011.]

Peace & security

South Africa. National action plan on women, peace and security, 2020-2025: South Africa. Pretoria: Department of International Relations and Cooperation, 2020.

Public service

A strategic framework for gender equality within the public service (2006-2015) : consultation document. Pretoria?: Department of Public Service and Administration, 2006. Shelf no. G 68 E.PUBL.06.STRA