How government fails at gender responsive procurement

The CGE in the 2018/2019 financial year surveyed a small sample of departments on their gender transformation efforts in public procurement. The CGE’s report, tabled in Parliament in June, showed most of the departments surveyed failed to integrate gender as a main component in their procurement practices.

“It is not really taken seriously,” Bohler-Muller said. “The government should take the United Nations Women’s Empowerment Principles seriously. If we are committed to improving the lives of women, we need to put our money where our mouths are.” “Gender is an important element in public procurement policy because it can help to ensure equitable access and provide benefits by diversifying the supply chain,” the report read. The Commission found that the departments generally failed to apply provisions of preferential procurement in both the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act and the Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment Act to expedite gender equality.

Programme lead at the Western Cape Economic Development Partnership, Rushka Ely, told Parlybeat it is a great concern that government is still not getting this right.

Yes our government's department responsible for transformation policies like affirmative, BEE& Gender empowerment are failing to monitor & hold those who failed to applied & enforce compliance on government policies of employment & businesses transformation! We need action plan

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