MATRIX OF THREATS AND CHALLENGES TO SOCIAL COHESION ANDNATION-BUILDING THREATS & CHALLENGES EVIDENCE SOURCE EXPLANATION RANKING SLOW ECONOMIC GROWTH AND TRANSFORMATION Averaging 3,7% over the last decade and dropping Development indicators and 2011 Budget Speech Structural resource-based constraints and global downturn HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT At 29,9% last quarter 2011 and decreasing from 30% highs Development Indicators and national statistics Job recreation initiatives outstripping labour growth HIGH POVERTY & INEQUALITY At a mean Africans earn ± 10% of the mean income of whites National development indicators and South Africa Survey Persistence of disparities HIGH HEALTH HIV/AIDS Tuberculosis Life expectancy Development indicators Poverty, hunger lifestyle, inadequate service HIGH EDUCATION Low primary performance and secondary completion Development indicators Africa Survey Inequalities in learning conditions and teaching skills HIGH HOUSING&LAND Development indicators South Africa Survey Cost of land Redistribution MEDIUM CRIME &SAFETY 25% of citizens polled experiences Development Indicators Unemployment, HIGH
crime South African Survey poverty, social disaffection and low detection GENDER Discrimination Violence Commission for Gender Rights Patriarchy, poverty, HIGH YOUTH Unemployment Out-of-school At risk Abuse National Youth Policy Social fragmentation and alienation HIGH XENOPHOBIA Violence against foreign nationals SACHR Report HSRC Report Competition for and employment HIGH CORRUPTION AND SERVICE DELIVERY Ranked 55th Service delivery Protests Development indicators Ineffective anti-corruption campaigning Local government lack of capacity HIGH SOCIAL SUPPORT Social grants ofR88 billion in 2010/2011 Development indicators Department of Social Development Orphaned children and disease, unemployment, poverty HIGH
That social cohesion and nation-building be conceptualised and coordinated for higher impact in full alignment with economic and social development policies and programmes at national, provincial and local levels and not as separate stand-alone activities. OBJECTIVE PROGRAMME INDICATORS TARGETS OUTCOMES Integrate social cohesion and in economic and social development National, provincial and local policies and programmes Lack of intergovernmental coordination To be decided in consultation Higher impact Recommendation 3 That community conversation be held to mobilise support for social cohesion and as a national priority. OBJECTIVE PROGRAMME INDICATORS TARGETS OUTCOMES Create awareness and mobilise communities Community conversations Community unrest and exclusion To be decided on in consultation Higher levels of active citizenship Recommendation 4 That existing national campaigns championed by the DAC, government departments, agencies and organisations be expanded to promote: Human rights and responsibility values National symbols Inclusive geographical and public names Inclusive participation in national days Inclusive participation in all sporting codes Active citizenship rights Children’s rights Rights of the disabled Marginalised and vulnerable groups Health and rehabilitation Representative and inclusive heritage institutions and programmes Intergroup co-operation and exchange
Recommendation 7 That public and other research institutions be encouraged to conduct regular cross-sectorial research and monitoring into social cohesion and national developments and trends in OBJECTIVE PROGRAMME INDICATORS TARGETS OUTCOMES Effective planning and monitoring Research, data analysis and evaluation Little impact information available To be decided in consultation Effective planning, monitoring and evaluation Recommendation 8 That National Social Cohesion Report Back Summits be convened at five-year intervals to: Report on and assess progress made in the medium Identify new challenges Adapt indicators Set new targets OBJECTIVE PROGRAMME INDICATORS TARGETS OUTCOMES Report on monitoring and assessment of programmes National Report Back Summit Public participation in monitoring and evaluation Public, private, civil society representatives Assess the efficacy of programmes to identify best practices