AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE WL PROGRAMME

ANC WL PROGRAMME OF ACTION FOR 2003-2007

TABLE OF CONTENTS

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS
BUILDING A STRONG ORGANISATION
WOMEN AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
GOVERNANCE AND LEGISLATURE
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
FINANCE AND FUNDRAISING
MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION
SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE WL PROGRAMME

To fight for Women’s emancipation and gender equality.
To place the WL at the centre of the struggle for Women’s emancipation.
To build a strong network with women’s organizations, NGO’s, CBO’s.
To strengthen on relations with the gender structures of the Alliance.
To fight for Women’s rights and ensure that they are treated as human rights.
To build a strong Women’s movement in the country, which will link us to women in the continent and the world over.

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

KEY CHALLENGES FACING THE WOMEN’S LEAGUE FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS

1. Building the organization

Build strong, vibrant and united Women’s League.
Ensure that the Women’s League is a women’s vanguard leading the struggle for women’s emancipation and gender equality.
Develop a new cadre of the ANC and the League that shall participate in the life of the organization.
Build a second layer leadership.

2. Deepen the culture of Human Rights

Ensure that the League occupies the centre stage in campaigns aimed at deepening the culture of human rights.
Build partnerships with community based organizations and communities on matters of human rights.
Ensure that women participate actively in the organs of civil society.
Build a strong progressive and dynamic women’s movement that shall ensure that women speak as a strong and united voice.

3. Economic Development and Empowerment

Ensure that women are integrated into the economic mainstream and also that the Black Economic Empowerment has a special bias towards women.
Investigate the possibilities of establishing a Women’s Development Fund, which is going to focus on skills training more particularly entrepreneurship skills for women who are in the SMME sector.

4. Strengthen the hold of the ANC over the levers of power.

Mobilize women and communities in general to vote for the ANC so as to ensure that the ANC wins elections with overwhelming majority.
Ensure that within the framework of participatory democracy women participate actively in structures aimed at strengthening democracy e.g. Community Policing Forums, Ward Committees etc.
Continue to work hard in ensuring women representation on all spheres of government and that generally all representatives of the ANC on all spheres of government are credible comrades who want to take the struggle of the people of South Africa forward.

5. Build a better Africa and World Order.

Ensure that the League plays a leading role in the struggles of women in the continent and further a field.
Host the PAWO Regional Conference in the year 2004 and PAWO Continental Conference before the end of 2006.
Build partnerships with sister organizations in Africa and Internationally.
Continue to participate in the Socialist International Women and the Women Federation of Democratic Women and ensure that the work of these Organisations impact positively on the life of ordinary women.

BUILDING A STRONG ORGANISATION

ACTIVITY	PURPOSE	WHO	HOW	WHEN
1. Regional and Provincial Conferences	To ensure that we have intact structures that are going to implement programmes of the emancipation of women and strengthen our structures on the ground	NEC and PEC’s in Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, KZN, Limpopo and Mpumalanga	- Set up Prep- Committees. - Political Preparedness - Verification of Membership	December 2003
- Hold Regional Conferences		- All Regions		- 2004
- Hold Provincial Conferences		- All Provinces		- 2005 (After Local Government Elections)
- National General Council				- December 2005
2. Induction of ANC WL structures.	To ensure that our structures understand WL challenges and the political role of the ANC WL.	NEC, PEC’s, Regions and Branches.	S.G.O. to liase with the Dept of Political Education on the Programme	September 2004
3. Fight for Women’s Rights as Human rights	Free Amina Lawal	NEC, PEC’s, REC’s.	Have marches demonstrations, prayers, candle lights, together with other women’s organizations, church women, NGO’s, CBO’s, etc	October 2003 Concluded
4. Operation "re a aga"	Draw in women from all walks of life in the WL such as young, business, veterans, resource women with the aim of building a strong Women’s League.	SGO and Organising, Provinces, Regions, Branches.	Meetings with different Women’s Sectors	On going
5. Mobilize young women to the ANC Women’s League	Ensure that we inject new blood in the WL, build leadership, work with young women with the aim of ensuring that they understand and fight their challenges.	NWC, SGO, Provinces, Regions, Branches Launch by ANCWL President.	Have a targeted recruitment for young women every year in conjunction with the Youth League.	Launch June 2004.
6. 16 Days of Activism	- Raise Awareness. - Celebrate the Achievements. - Form Partnerships. - Look into the challenges	SGO, Organising, Provinces, Regions, Branches.	„ Provinces to have Imbizo’s, marches, meetings with Magistrates, Police, other women organizations „ support government programme, include men in the campaign „ Launch Ivory Park Gauteng „ Guguletu - Close	23 November 10^th December
7. Review Membership Systems of the WL and Provincial Allocations.	- Ensure that all members get their membership at a correct time. - System of following up membership for renewal. - Link our membership system to that of the ANC. - Have a user friendly membership system	SGO and TGO.	- Meeting with Organising Department - Finance Dept.	November 2004
Build a strong and proper Administration System	- Have reliable organisational data and memory. - Ensure that information stays within the organisation. - Keep proper records of the organization through IT and Data Base. - Develop proper records of the membership system. - Ensure that each staff member understands ANC challenges, responsibilities. - Gaps in terms of staff	Officials, SGO, Political Education, Staff, ANC Administration	- Ensuring that our system enables us to engage our programme of action. - Develop a system that will make the work of the Officials, NWC & NEC is easy and user friendly - Programme of staff development to be organized with the Administrator and Political Education	WIP Ongoing
8. Building strong relations partnerships, NGO’s, Churchwomen, Professional Women, Business Women, Rural Women, Unemployed Women.	- Ensure that Women’s Organisations understand the challenge of transforming South Africa into a non-sexist society.	Presidency, SGO.	- other women’s organizations.	twice per annum and ongoing
9. Mobilisation of women for the Elections.	- Ensure that the ANC wins the 2004 National and Provincial Elections and 2006 Local Govt. Elections with an Overwhelming Victory	SGO, Organising, Provinces, Branches.	- Lead the women’s trail. - Organise Women’s Imbizo’s to celebrate 10 years of freedom. - Popularise the achievements of ANC lead govt. - Participate in ANC Elections Structures.	Ongoing
10. Alliance	- Revisit the decision of the coalition. - To discuss the nature of the women’s movement. - To come up with a programme of action - Ensure that we contribute to the programme of the ANC of strengthening the Alliance with the aim of deepening the struggle for women’s emancipation.	ANC WL SACP-Gender desk. COSATU Desk. SANCO, Political Education Presidency, SGO.	- Convene a meeting with Alliance Convene meetings with Alliance partners	Before the end of January 2004 Quarterly
11. Identify issues that unite women.	- To understand the nature of the development of the women’s movement	ANC Policy Unit and Research Unit.	Research and interaction with OSW, Alliance other NGOs and CBOs	Before the end of January 2004.
12. Obtain data of progressive women’s organizations	- To ensure that we do not leave out important role players in the process.	Research Unit		Before January 2004
13. Bilateral meetings with religious organizations, women’s guilds, mother’s, unions, stokvels business women, NGO’s, CBO’s, Professional women, women’s networks etc.	- To discuss the importance of the women’s movement.	Presidency, Provinces, Regions, Branches	- Convene meetings with these structures, process to be led by President and Provincial Chairs and SGO’s and PSO’s to facilitate.	Before the end of February 2004.
14. Establish a steering committee of the Alliance and NGO’s, CBO’s, Professionals, Religious Organisations etc.	- To prepare for the formalisation of the women’s movement.	Alliance Partners to Co-ordinate this.	- Meeting of all these organizations.	March 2004
15. Steering Committee to meet.	- Discuss the role of the women’s movement. - Prepare for the launch of the women’s movement.	Steering Committee guided by Alliance.	- Have meetings and consultation with organizations that have interest in taking the campaign for women’s rights.	July 2004
16. Launch of the Women’s Movement	- To strengthen the fight for gender equality and place the women’s league at the centre of the struggle for women’s emancipation and gender equality.	All member Organisations.	-	Before the end of August 2004.

WOMEN AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

ACTIVITIES	PURPUSE	WHO	HOW	WHEN
Meeting of the women and Economic Empowerment Committee	- To discuss the approach that we need to take Nationally.	Cde Angie Motshega		March 2004
Convene a National ANC WL Empowerment Workshop	Deliberate on issues and economic empowerment and to prepare a programme for implementation of conference decisions.	Cde Angy Motshega		August 2004
- Investigate the establishment of the Women’s Development Fund. - Lobbying for Economic Development to support women in communities more especially stokvels.	- To ensure that women are trained in entrepreneurship skills so that they become Economically active - To ensure that survival initiatives started by women are developed into sustainable programmes for poverty alleviation	Cde Angy Motshega, ANC research Unit, and other relevant research institutes. Cde Angy Motshega, ANC Policy and Research Units.	Meeting with relevant financial institution and government ministers. Have meetings with women’s stokvels and institutions who have done research on co-operatives	November 2004 October 2005
- Lobbying for the allocation of 30% of BEE funding to women.	- Ensure that women participate in opportunities created by democracy.	Cde Angy Motshega	Meet with government departments that offer such opportunities to women.	October 2005
- Lobby and Campaign for the review of the Blacklisting by banks and other institutions				Ongoing
- Lobby for Scholarships for women and the girl child -	- Women and the girl child have to enter into Math’s, Science, Technology, IT, Engineering.	Cde Angy Motshega	Lobby with bursary foundations and dept of education for prioritization of women and the girl child in bursary schemes	2004 Onwards
- Lobby for creation of indicators in areas that have committed to Economic Development.	- Ensure that we are able to measurer changes made in the areas of women ‘s empowerment.	Cde Angy Motshega and ANC Policy and Research Units.	Research and hold meeting crucial government departments.	Before the end 2004

GOVERNANCE AND LEGISLATURE

ACTIVITY	PURPOSE	WHO	HOW	WHEN
1. Women’s Imbizo’s	- So that women can speak out on their experiences and give feed back to ANC government. - Be informed directly about the impact of what the government has done.	NEC PEC REC Branches	Women’s Trial	During the election campaign and beyond
2. Lead a public debate on about legislating 30% representation of women in legislature.	- To practicalise representation of women and extend this to other parties. - To start teasing on the fact that representation of women should take consideration of demographics.	NEC PEC	Meeting with stakeholders more particularly Electoral Commission, Gender Commission. - Justice Department	WIP and beyond election period
3. Take up the campaign on Batho Pele	- To change the culture and bad attitudes of many civil servants towards the people they serve.	- NEC - PEC’s - REC’s - Branches	- discussions with comrades deployed and leading in this in order to strategise, announce our plan to boost people’s confidence in our seriousness about Batho Pele	2004 Onwards
4. 30% Employment of women at management level in public service.	- To promote the culture of employment of women.	- NEC	- Engage army, intelligence, police service and foreign services as our priority and then all other sectors.	2004 Onwards
5. Involvement of Women’s League members in the work of Ward Committees.	- To ensure that we give leadership on all issues, explain and defend ANC policies. - To raise issues that affect women and put forward concrete measures to address them.	- REGIONS - BRANCHES	- Lobby and motivate for women to serve in these structures.	2004 Onwards
6. Establish of women’s caucuses at all spheres of government. 7. Monitor the implementation that has impact on women’s lives	- So as to ensure that women monitor legislation and ordinance have the interests of women and fight for the eradication of sexist policies in all spheres of govt.	- National Parliament - Provincial Legislatures. - Local Government	- For many women’s caucus and encourage public representatives to involve themselves.	2004 Onwards
8. Research about the Women’s National Machinery Mandate Resources and Functioning	- To reassess the constitutional bodies supporting democracy. - To ensure optimal utilization and developing a standardized approach to matters such as appointment procedures	- Engage Gender Machinery and use relevant research institutions.	- NEC - Provinces - OSW - Commission on Gender Equality. - submission to be made to the NGC of the ANC	March 2005
9. Design a comprehensive strategy on our programme to build a non-sexist society.	- To operationalise ANC resolution on targeted groups. - To take forward discussions with a view to effect amendments and changes to customary and religious practices, including laws that govern the right to inherit.	- NEC - Policy ANC Political Education Department.		2004 Onwards
10. Develop structured relationship with the Office on the Status of women and the Commission on Gender Equality.	- To reduce the impact of poverty on rural women.	- NEC - PEC	- Having meetings with the gender machinery and discuss the challenges facing South African Women	2004 Onwards
11. Provincial committees to ensure that in the Premiers Offices the impact made to change the lives of women on the ground are monitored and visible.	- To ensure that we prioritise laws of particular importance to status and conditions of women on a daily basis (e.g.) domestic violence, maintenance etc.	- NEC - PEC’s	- To have meetings with Premiers, MEC’s, Ministers and other important stakeholders.	2004 Onwards
12. Restoration of the women’s budget.	- To ensure that money is ring-fenced by provincial and national governments to ensure that programmes on the ground target women’s needs.	- NEC	- Have a meeting with Minister of Finance.	2004 Onwards
13. Literacy Programmes	- To ensure that there are more literacy programmes especially in rural areas. - Transport the rural areas to ensure that women have better access to education than resources	- NEC - PEC - REC - Branches	- Engage government, NGO’s, Private sectors and other individuals interested in this	2004 Onwards

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

CORE TASK	ACTION TO BE UNDERTAKEN	BY WHO	TIME FRAMES	PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES
1. Lobby for the international debt alleviation by ANC	To attend and participate in PAWO and SWI to raise the plight of developing countries	WL	Ongoing End of October SWI meeting	Get concrete information on impact on women
2. Extend ABET to deal with illiteracy in the continent	Engage literacy groups to link with others in the continent	WL	Ongoing	Traditional attitudes that do not allow for the education of women
3. Strengthen relations with sisters organizations and trade unions in SADC	Organise bilaterals, attend their conferences, invite them to our conferences, and discuss common problems.	WL
5. Encourage women’s participation in economic and social development.
6. Encourage trade between countries in the South
7. Collaborate with other women in the fight against HIV and AIDS in the continent.	- share our ABC and positive living campaign. - Learn from other countries.
8. Work for the strengthening and implementation of NEPAD	-
9. Encourage for the ratification of the AU Protocol on women	-
10. Campaign for exposure and punishment of those who violate international women’s conventions	-
11. Encourage the inclusion of women in peacekeeping missions.
12. Support the Women Dialogue initiatives	- Implement decisions taken at the national WDI	WL structures
13. Lobby for international solidarity on peace and stability focus on DRC, Burundi, Sudan, Zimbabwe	-
14. Play and effective role as PAWO secretariat in Southern Africa.	- Convene meeting of the Southern Africa meeting. - Work out issue to be taken up to transform PAWO and lobby other countries	WL NEC	- By end of April 2004 - By end of August 2004	- By end of April 2004
15. Restructure PAWO to address present challenges. - Host the PAWO continental conference	-	WL NEC WL NEC	- September to December 2003 - By the end of 2004
16. Facilitate debates in our structures on international developments	-
17. Take up campaign to save the life of Amina Lawal	- Letter and conference resolution to our President. - Signing of petitions. - Prayer meetings. - Pickets.	- WL NEC, NWC - WL structures - WL, Manyano - WL structures	- September 2003	- Done
	- Marches	- WL structures
17. Strengthen solidarity with Palestine	-	-
18. Strengthen solidarity with Western Sahara	-	-

FINANCE AND FUNDRAISING

ACTIVITY	PURPOSE	WHO	HOW	WHEN
1. Establishment of a Finance Policy.	- To ensure that all our structures follow proper financial management systems	T.G.O		June 2004
2. Induction of Provincial Treasurers and Finance and Fundraising Sub-committee	- To empower our leadership about the finance policy, financial management systems and fundraising policy.	T.G.O.	Workshop	June 2004
3. Levy Collection	- Fundraising for the ANC WL	- T.G.O. and Fundraising Sub-committee	- Come up with a list of friends of the WL NEC members, PEC’s, MP’s, MPL’S and Councilors	December 2003
4. Conduct financial year end Audit effective allocation and Manageable way of distributing branch allocations	- To allow the Finance committee to scrutinize the reports and present reports to the NEC - Help understand WL financial situation. - To reduce the nightmare caused by transfers of six rands. - Ensure that there is a proper system of distribution of branch allocation.	- T.G.O. - T.G.O.	- Research how this can be done	Every end of Financial Year. Before the end of December 2004.
5. Yearly Financial Budget Framework.	- To help the WL to understand resources that are needed for programme implementation. - Ensure that the WL becomes self reliant	- TGO and Fundraising Committee	- Collect yearly programmes from all structures of the League. - Fundraise according to the needs of the WL. - Fundraise through friends of the League. - Membership Pledges. - ANC WL Memorabilia. - African Textiles Clothing. - Women Divas, Jazz Festivals. - Form Investment Arm	Annually
6. Database of cdes with financial skills	- So that they can offer their skills to the organization.	- TGO	- Research to be done through provinces and friends of the WL.	June 2004.
7. Branches to open Accounts.	- To ensure that branches have resources for meetings and other organizational things.	- TGO - PTO	- To be authorized by National and Provincial Organisers.	October 2003.
8. Establishment of a Financial Commission.	- To guide the work of the NEC and the Treasurer General. - To help the Treasurer General to raise funds.	- TGO	- NEC to appoint the committee - Committee meetings	October 2003 quarterly

MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION

ACTIVITY	PURPOSE	WHO	HOW	WHEN
1. The Media and Communication must have a media and communication workshop	Media and Communication strategy and implementation programme.	- Cde Charlotte Lobe	Development and adoption of a media and communication strategy	2^ND Week of January 2004
2. Set up and office at HQ dealing with media officers at provincial and regional level. Budget	- Strong, effective communication channel at all levels.		To establish the communication machinery of the ANC WL.	Last week of January 2004.
3. Communicate with ANC communication department, Youth League communication department and the alliance partners.	- Quick information flow and co-ordination to ensure support for WL campaigns.		Extend the programme of direct communication to improve the visibility of the ANC WL.	3^rd week of January 2004.
4. To identify the list of different media houses and journalists and create close working relationship with the journalists specially dealing with gender issues. Meet the WL media forum workshop to identify issues and campaigns, then develop communication plan for each issue or campaign.	- Improve the visibility of the WL. Expose the WL programmes and campaigns. Build confidence for WL with Media - Visible, effective and strategic campaigns		Identify issues, campaigns from the WL P.O.A.	Ongoing process January 2004
5. Develop a media and communication training programme. Budget. Identify institutions to fund us for the trainings.	- Confidence building in dealing with communications and the media.		Development of media and communication cadreship at various levels.	Ongoing process
6. Informing the NGO’s and the alliance partners that the WL has a media structures.	- Building confidence in dealing with alliance and NGO’s.		Building and strengthening partnership with civil society and the alliance.	- End of January 2004.

SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

ACTIVITY	PURPOSE	WHO	HOW	WHEN
1. Campaigns on violence against women and children.	Close gaps on arreas that are still problematic. - Break the silence on traditional practices that affect women.	- NEC	- Raise awareness - Re-look into laws that have been passed in the past ten years and their impact on women be part of 16 days of activism activities.	December 2003 Onwards
2. Recruit young women to WL structures. 3. Network and lobby with government departments about delivery to women.	- To inject the women’s league with young women. - To build a second layer leadership. - To understand problems and challenges that young women are facing. - ensure that government departments prioritise women in their budgets. - Assist government in mobilizing communities for registration for social grants. - Ensure that gender focal points are located in highly ranked offices and have resources. - Lobby for DPSA and cabinet to endorse a clause which commits director general’s to effect good performance on gender programmes	- NEC - NEC	- Youth targeted recruitment - Have meetings with relevant government departments and ministers.	January 2004 July 2004 – July 2005
4. Advocate for accreditation of skills development.	- Ensure that women’s skills acquired over a long period help women to go through formal education and allow them to be recognized for senior positions in private and public sector.	- NEC,	- Liase with government departments on information relevant to the campaigns, gardening projects etc.	Ongoing
5. HIV and AIDS Campaign and other diseases	- To strengthen awareness campaign and ABC campaign. - To assist women to start gardening projects. - To motivate women in home based care to continue doing this.	- NEC, - PEC, - REGIONS - BRANCHES	- Liase with government departments on information relevant to the campaigns, gardening etc.	Ongoing
6. Advocate for foster parenting to child headed households	- To ensure that orphans get proper socialization from normal families	- NEC - PEC - REGIONS - BRANCHES	- Motivate our communities to CARE for orphans.	June 2004- June 2007
7. Encourage the culture of breaking silence	- To ensure that communities do not hide women rights abusers, that all our communities especially take this campaign seriously.	- NEC - PEC - REC - BRANCHES	- Undertake campaigns - Work with governance structures like the police. - Work with CBO’s and NGO’s.	Ongoing
8. To ensure that TEFSA prioritises disadvantaged young women	- So that young women can access education without constrains.	- NEC	- Have meetings with relevant people more especially education department.	July 2004 – July 2007
9. Advocate for rehabilitation centers in our own areas	- So that we can develop skills within our communities - Interact with larger number of people. - Access to this facilities is not limited to few individuals	- NEC - PEC - REC - BRANCHES	- Negotiate with the government and NGO’s to bring this facility down to the people.	July 2004 – July 2007
10. Advocate for shelters of abused women in our areas	- To ensure that women stay in places where they are more comfortable.	- NEC - PEC - REC - BRANCHES	- Have meeting with government departments.	July 2004 – July 2007