How can annual reports help in ensuring gender responsive budgeting?

1. How can annual reports help in ensuringgender responsive budgeting? Joint Monitoring Committee on Improvement of Quality of Life & Status of Women 16 November 2007

2. Workshop programme • Focus: • Using annual reports to monitor budgets from a gender perspective • Sessions: • Presentation • Group work • Plenary report back & discussion • Summary presentation

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

4. 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

5. 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?) • S&S 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

6. S&S 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 R’000)

7. Visible policing • Crime Prevention: R12 838 187 • (89% of this programme, 45% of total S&S budget) • Funds services at police stations • Borderline Security: R76 171 • Specialised Interventions: R1 512 091 • (All amounts R’000)

8. 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 R’000)

9. Targets: Crime Prevention • Include: • Contact crimes reduced by 7% per year • No gender-related measurable objectives

10. 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

11. 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?

12. 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!

13. 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?

14. General observations on S&S • 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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?

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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?