The aim of the workshop was to educate members on gender responsive budgeting, to address gender related issues facing South Africa today, to read and understand annual reports (relating to gender equality) and to analyse budget reports.
The presenter chose to use the Department of Labour as a point of reference to focus on gender inequalities in the workplace and in the labour market.
The workshop was structured in such a way as to facilitate the presentation as well as group activities. The first group activity was based on gender issues in the workplace in South Africa and the differences between men and women in the workplace. The task for each group was to identify those issues and report on it using drawings instead of words and the other groups would guess what each drawing represented.
The second group activity was based on the presence of gender issues in the programme performance in a department annual report. Groups were asked to identify areas in the report where gender was implicit and areas where members would like to see more gender issues included.
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