DIRCO Annual Report

Challenges experienced • Lack of human capacity to fully execute the occupational health and safety responsibilities. •

Lack of tools of trade to attend OHS meetings.

• Difficulties in getting branch nominees to serve as SHE representatives. 7. PORTFOLIO COMMITTEES

Date of the Meeting/workshop

Agenda: Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Cooperation

15 May 2020 21 May 2020

Update to the committee on COVID-19-related activities of the Department of International Relations and Cooperation

Briefing to the Portfolio Committee The department was requested to provide written responses to outstanding questions

26 May 2020 29 May 2020 3 June 2020

Briefing to the Portfolio Committee on the questions raised by the Portfolio Committee during the briefing by the department on 21 May 2020

A report on Budget Vote 6: International Relations and Cooperation. The committee adopted the report

Briefing to the Portfolio Committee on DIRCO’s role in support of processes by government to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The department should show how its involvement would impact on its operations. DIRCO’s responses on the Budget Vote 2020 Briefing to the Portfolio Committee on the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (TAC) in Southeast Asia, tabled in terms of Section 231(2) of the Constitution, 1996. Consideration and adoption of the draft report on the TAC in Southeast Asia, tabled in terms of Section 231(2) of the Constitution, 1996 Briefing to the Portfolio Committee on the performance and financial report of the department and that of the Africa Renaissance Fund (ARF) for the fourth quarter of the 2019/20 financial year Presentation on the foreign policy perspective on the recent developments in the Middle East, including the proposed Israeli annexation of the West Bank 2 September 2020 Presentation by the department on the security situation in Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique, and its impact on South Africa’s foreign policy aspirations for a secure and peaceful Southern African Development Community region 7 October 2020 A briefing by the Risk and Audit committees on the challenges facing the department’s and the ARF’s performance in 2019/20 financial year 20 October 2020 Briefing by the department on its responses on the recommendations of the Portfolio Committee on the department’s fourth quarter performance. The department should also make its own assessment of its overall performance, pending a formal audit by the Auditor-General of South Africa (AGSA) 21 October 2020 • Assessment by the ARF on its annual performance, taking into consideration its quarterly reporting, pending a formal audit by AGSA • Briefing on South Africa’s candidates for the position of Deputy Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission 26 November 2020 A briefing by the ARF on its annual report for the 2019/20 financial year, at a committee meeting scheduled for Wednesday, 25 November 2020 at 18:00 (rescheduled for 26 November 2020) 10 February 2021 A briefing to the Portfolio Committee on the First and Second Quarter Performance and Financial Report: The Department and ARF, 2020/21 February 2020 A briefing on the Implementation of the Portfolio Committee’s Oversight Report to New York. 10 June 2020 26 June 2020 8 July 2020 Briefing to the Portfolio Committee on the Annual Performance Plan and Strategic Plan of the department and that of the ARF 19 August 2020

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