Research Department
The Research department’s purpose is to ensure that the Commission for Gender Equality achieves one of its four strategic objectives, which reads: “Monitoring and Research investigations on issues that undermine the attainment of gender equality”. The department is led by the HOD, who is supported by a deputy and a team of researchers. As part of its work, the department implements research projects on a variety of issues that affect gender transformation and gender equality in South Africa. The scope, findings and recommendations thereof are then published in research reports that the department produces. The Research Department has been set up to do the following:
The Research Department had been set up to do the following:
- Researching preparation and presentation of project proposals like partnerships on policy workshops, democracy conferences, fact finding – private sector, elections, spatial development initiatives, inputs into drafting white papers etc), organising related meetings/ workshops/ conferences, preparing memos, identifying service providers and providing input for financial reporting as approved by plenary;
- Facilitating CGE’s involvement in partnership initiatives, e.g. race conferences, policy workshops;
- Identifying appropriate sources and preparing input for policy documents; presentations by the department, the chair and commissioners;
- Liaising with various role players, and supplying input to / and updating CGE with current developments in Gender Equality locally and internationally.