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To ensure water security, the Department of Water and Sanitation updates the National Water and Sanitation Masterplan (NWSMP) annually, while producing progress reports on different programmes including the ground-water programme. Regular monitoring of these programmes might be required to ensure timely interventions when needed.
2019-2024 MTSF, Priority 6: Social Cohesion and Safer Communities
In order to improve investor confidence, government plans have been made to achieve progress with regard to fighting corruption, reducing levels of contact crime, ensuring a well- defended and secure cyberspace, defending, protecting, safeguarding and securing communities, and ensuring the social reintegration of offenders. The government departments charged with the safety of all South Africans and with improving investor perception in South Africa has thus identified 30 outputs to measure performance on their interventions. It should be noted that 11 outputs are linked to the National Prosecuting Agency (NPA), the State Security Agency (SSA) [which does not publish an APP] and the Civilian Secretariat
of Police Services (CSPS), which were not included in this analysis. This exclusion is due to the purpose of this analysis to focus on national departments.
One of the main concerns within this sector is the continuous increase in crime rates reported by the SAPS, despite the progress made on interventions identified as priorities for the sector. Another concern is the availability of data on the conviction rate for serious corruption in the public sector. The SAPS have only reported on the percentage of trial- ready case dockets for serious corruption within the public sector.
2. Stakeholder engagement and developments
SA Top Women Recognition: PBO awarded certificate for Top Women Empowerment
During the year under review, the Parliamentary Budget Office has been recognised as leading the legislative sector in women an empowerment, more specifically in a very technical and highly analytical field in macroeconomic and fiscal policy space. The Office has a 46 per cent to 54 per cent gender parity to women and men. And this means there are women representatives in all the Office levels of employment.
This achievement was granted by the Standard Bank through their Top Women Virtual Conference and Awards which will took place virtually on 12 to 13 October 2022, and on 10 November 2022, respectively. The Standard Bank Top Women is endorsed by the South Africa’ Commission for Gender Equality and the United Nations Women. This programme recognises over 10 000 women entrepreneurs in Africa annually.
The Office, led by Dr Dumisani Jantjies, was also feature in their Top Women Leaders Publications and online profiles. This is South Africa’s leading gender-empowerment publication, listing and celebrating visionary organisations that prioritise gender empowerment as integral to their growth and success. The publication, along with its valued partners, is dedicated to showcasing these organisations as thought leaders in their industry.
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