EQUAL GENDER REPRESENTATION and PARTICIPATION IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

EQUAL GENDER REPRESENTATION

and PARTICIPATION

IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT

BACKGROUND

• SALGA is a body endorsed by the South African Constitution and is the recognized VOICE of Local government.

• SALGA is a voluntary organisation and obtains its funding from membership levies, government grant and donor funding.

• SALGA has nine provincial associations led politically by the provincial chairperson and administratively by the deputy CEO.

• SALGA has a total membership of all 284 municipalities.• SALGA is the employer body and represents 8 824

councillors and +120 000 municipal employees.

The Gender and Women Empowerment Programme

• The programme falls under the Strategic Affairs Directorate • The Directorate is headed by the Executive Director and has the

Social Development Unit which is headed by and HOU. • The Social Development Working Group has a staff compliment of

four people at national office and one at each province.• The political champions of the programme are political

representatives and officials from all provinces and they constitute the Social Development Working Group which is chaired by a member of the National Executive Committee.

DEPUTY CEOs

• TOTAL: 9• MEN: 8• WOMEN: 1

Mpumalanga is the only

province with a woman D/CEO.

DEPUTY CEOs (PROVINCIAL DIRECTORS)

0

50

100

PROVINCIAL OFFICERS

PERC

ENTA

GE

MEN

WOMEN

EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT TEAM [EMT]

• OLD • NEW

EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT TEAMTOTAL: 9; WOMEN 1; MEN 8

0

50

100

EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT TEAM [EMT]

MEN

WOMEN

EMTTOTAL:14; WOMEN:3; MEN:11

0

50

100

1

PERC

ENTA

GE MALE

FEMALE

NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

• OLD • NEWNATIONAL EXECUTIVE

COMMITTEETOTAL:5; WOMEN:2; MEN:3

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

NATIONALEXECUTIVEBEARERS

PE

RC

EN

TA

GE

MEN

WOMEN

NATIONAL EXUTIVE COMMITTEE

MEMBERS

TOTAL10; WOMEN:7; MEN:3

020406080

1

PERC

ENTA

TGE MALE

FEMALE

NATIONAL WORKING GROUP CHAIRPERSONS

• OLD • NEW

NATIONAL WORKING GROUPS CHAIRPERSONS

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

NATIONAL WORKINGGROUPS

CHAIRPERSONS

MEN

WOMEN

NATIONAL WORKING GROUPS CHAIRPESONS

020406080

1

PERC

ENTA

GE MALE

FEMALE

PROVINCIAL CHAIRPERSON

• OLD • NEWPROVINCIAL CHAIRPERSONS

TOTAL:9; WOMEN:1; MEN:8

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

PROVINCIAL CHAIRPERSONS

PE

RC

EN

TA

GE

MEN

WOMEN

PROVINCIAL CHAIRPERSONSTOTAL:9; WOMEN:3; MEN:6

0

50

100

1

PERC

ENTA

GE MALE

FEMALE

Local Government Gender Audit 2004

Gender Representation of Councillors

• Total Councillors: 8 828• Total Male Councillors:

6263 – 70.94%• Total Female Councillors:

2565 – 29.06%

NATIONAL GENDER REPRESENTATION IN COUNCIL

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

1

TOTAL COUNCILLORS: 8 828

% MALE

% FEMALE

Local Government Gender Audit

COUNCILLOR STATISTICS

01020304050607080

%MALE

%FEMALE


ELECTION TYPETOTAL: 8 828

PR: 5 075 WARD: 3 753

• PR WARDMALE: 3165 3 098 62.36% 82.54%

• PR WARDFEMALE: 1 910 65537.63% 17.45%


MAYORS

MALE TOTAL:

229 – 80.63%

FEMALE TOTAL:

54 – 19.01%

N/CLASS.:

01 - 1.6%

MAYORS

0102030405060708090

100

PER

CEN

TAG

E MALE

FEMALE

NOT CLASSIFIED

NONE


DEPUTY MAYORS

MALE TOTAL: 74 – 26.05%

FEMALE TOTAL: 24 – 8.45%

N/CLASS.: 04 – 1.40%

NONE:182 – 64.08%

DEPUTY MAYORS

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

PERC

ENTA

GE

MALE

FEMALE

NOT CLASSIFIED

NONE


SPEAKERS

MALE TOTAL: 186 – 65.49%

FEMALE TOTAL: 77 - 27.11%

N/CLASS.: 10 - 3.52%

NONE:13 – 4.58%

SPEAKERS

0102030405060708090

100

PERC

ENTA

GE

MALE

FEMALE

NOT CLASSIFIED

NONE


CHIEF WHIPS

MALE TOTAL: 163 – 57.39%


N/CLASS.: 9 – 3.17%

NONE:85 – 29.93%

CHIEF WHIPS

0102030405060708090

100

PERC

ENTA

GE

MALE

FEMALE

NOT CLASSIFIED

NONE


MUNICIPAL MANAGERS

MALE TOTAL: 264 – 93.31%


N/CLASS.: 1 – 0.35%

MUNICIPAL MANAGERS

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

PERC

ENTA

GE

MALE

FEMALE

NOT CLASSIFIED

SUCCESS AND CHALLENGESSuccesses

• The Local Government Gender Audit.

• Development of the Local Government Gender Policy Framework in partnership with dplg.

• The incorporation of gender empowerment in the SALGA constitution.

• The annual Women in Local Government Conferences held in partnership with dplg.

• The Benoni Declaration of 2005.

Challenges

• Partnerships have sometime undermined the common cause of women empowerment.

• No common programmes by spheres of government that adequately address the roles and responsibilities and take into consideration the mandate of the different spheres of government.

• The number of women political representatives been improved whilst less has been achieved in the administration wing of municipalities.

Local Government Election Plan

ID documents

• …report reported a drastic decline in the voter turnout during the local government election as compared to the national and provincial elections. The youth has been particularly mentioned as a group that is apathetic towards the electoral process. A small number of the young people do participate but the bigger youth population has not registered to vote.


Meeting with the political parties (the Women’s Wing) to discuss the 50/50

Campaign

• The purpose of the meeting is to sensitise women, in political parties, to gender issues. In return these women will raise awareness in communities. The meeting aims at influencing women to lobby for nomination (PR and Ward) as candidates and the zebra system to be applied on the party lists.


Meeting with NGOs (50/50 Campaign partners) to discuss Strategies for illuminating the

campaign

• A meeting with the 50/50 Campaign partners will be held to discuss the campaign strategy. The purpose of this meeting is to mobilize resources for small municipalities that do not have the capacity to implement the campaign.


YOUTH PARTICIPATION

• ID application and distribution• Youth Voter Education• Youth Voter Registration• Post election research to qualitatively determine the youth participation in the elections


Developing Election Campaign Material

• Developing a catalogue of women in local government: The project focus will be on women councillors (mayors, deputy mayors, speakers and chief whips) and senior officials, namely, municipal managers and deputy municipal managers.


Guidelines to Enhance the Representation and Participation of Women in Local

Government

• The objectives of the guidelines are to articulate in short, ways in which the representation and participation of women can be enhanced. Representation refers specifically to the numbers while participation refers to the involvement in relation to positions held.

Local Government Election Plan 2005/06

Democracy Development Workshops:

• To ensure that all councillors are prepared for the LG elections

• To ensure that women – who make up 55+% of the election campaigning population - are well informed of the processes that lead to the election day i.e. candidate nomination and candidate list submission to the IEC, the campaigning and voting process, the counting process and the legislation related to the elections.

• To sensitise political parties (through its councillors) on the legal obligation and social imperative to equally include women on he party lists.


Capacity building of Special project Units in municipalities.

• Ensuring gender mainstreaming through workshoping the municipal and provincial office staff dealing with social development programmes


The Women in Local Government Conferences• A national conference will be held in celebration of Women’s Day

in 2005. The national conference will be preceded by the provincial conferences.

Objectives - To give a report back on the progress made on the gender and

HIV/Aids matters that were deliberated on in 2004 - To identify the needs of women in order to develop a programme

that will address their needs.- To share with the women election plan that seeks to enhance their

representation and participation in LG


MEDIA AND PUBLICITY

• Media refers to the media output that SALGA makes during 2005. Media includes municipal newsletters/publications, radio stations and newspapers and television. It is critical that SALGA is vocal on supporting the upcoming LG lections and also in encouraging engendered balloting. The political leaders in local government must use the media to promote the LG elections.

• Publicity refers to branding around activities in the various

projects across directorates, units and even municipalities. Statements of support for the election slogan must be printed on the promotional material (e.g. caps, T-shirts, pens etc) that will be in conferences or workshops. Municipalities must write statements of support for the elections n the bills.


POST ELECTIONSLocal Government Audit

• The objectives of this project are to determine the

gender representation and participation of people in them municipal employ. A report will be written, printed and circulated to all municipalities. An interactive report will be posted on the SALGA website. The information will be updated quarterly and printed once a year with the trend reports.


Local Government AuditThe audit will be on the Special Programmes, namely: • Disabilities• Youth• Gender• Race

The audit will be done on the following structure:• Council• Portfolio Committees• Ward Committees• Section 57 Employees• All levels of employment

THANK YOU

All queries on the presentation must be addressed to:

Ayanda Nabe: [email protected] Choabi: [email protected]: 012-369 8000 Fax: 012-369 8001

EQUAL GENDER REPRESENTATION and PARTICIPATION IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

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