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this model will be piloted in all municipalities and will be facilitated by SALGA, COGTA in
consultation with the DPSA which will set norms and standards of Public Administration at all
spheres of government. This model will particularly be valuable for the Metropolitan
Municipalities’ HIV&AIDS and TB responses as eight of the 15 cities where HIV is most
prevalent in Sub Saharan Africa are in South Africa.73
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development has been involved in the
management of Project 107 (a Project aimed at investigating the legal options related to sex
work). Part of Project 107 is reformulation of sub-objectives under Objective 4 of the NSP
2012-2016. This includes the rendering public services related to comprehensive
management of gender based violence. The Project 107 is largely the responsibility of a
government entity called the Law Reform Commission. It will investigate options to sex work.
The Law Reform Commission has conducted preliminary investigations and has compiled a
report. This report is currently being studied by the Department and will be made available
once this is completed and outstanding issues have been clarified with Acting
Commissioner. The Objective 4 of the NSP 2012-2016 was reworked after the initial
presentation to Cabinet. This work has now been completed and the Objective four is being
implemented by various SANAC sectors according to their comparative advantage.
The work of overseeing policy advice and programme implementation is done by the
Technical Task Team which was established after the NSP 2012-2016 approval by Cabinet.
The Technical Task team is chaired by the SANAC CEO and the Deputy Minister of Justice.
The membership of the task team is made of the senior officials from the Department of
Justice, and civil society organizations. Furthermore, HIV&AIDS and TB were mainstreamed
into the legislative and policy work of the Department with both the dimensions of gender
sensitivity and human rights factored into this work. The department facilitated the signing of
the Trafficking in Persons Act which has particular gender sensitive provisions of protection
of women and children against trafficking. This has been signed into law by the President of
the republic during this year (year 2 of the NSP 2012-2016 implementation).
The Department has concluded the report into the reopening of sexual offences courts. This
was commissioned out of the increased case cycle time which was proven to lengthen the
rendering of legal justice service to members of the community who were sexually violated.
This report was launched by the department in 2013. This report will inform the policy and
programme implementation processes to be followed to ensure that the sexual offences
courts are reopened. Fifty percent (50%) of sexual offences courts will be established by end
of November 2013. So far 22 out of the planned sexual offences courts have been
established.
The Department of Environmental Affairs is undertaking advocacy on the SADC project on
HIV&AIDS mainstreaming into Environmental Impact Assessments. DPSA as a focal
department at SADC has been advocating for this in South Africa among senior managers at
Environmental Affairs, MinTech and working groups 2 and 7 of the MinTech Groups.
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