The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) will on Monday, host the Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth, and Persons with Disabilities at its KwaZulu-Natal provincial office in Durban.
The meeting will discuss the programmes the CGE is implementing in the province.
The engagement will be followed by a week-long committee oversight into different service delivery areas that are meant to address gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) and its intersectional recovery programmes.
The portfolio committee intends to embark on assessing the provision of services for victims and survivors of GBVF.
“The committee will also be visiting and meeting institutions that are providing services to young women and adolescent girls in respect of access to sexual reproductive health rights and education with a special focus on sanitary dignity pads and learner pregnancy,” the Commission said in a statement.
The commission’s research report titled “School Dropout of Adolescent Girls during Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period: Policy Dialogue“, will provide an opportunity for increased engagement based on its findings and recommendations from the oversight visit. – SAnews.gov.za
