Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The Minister for Community Services and the Minister for the Status of Women have provided the following answer to the honourable senator's question:

(1) The Gender Equality for Women program guidelines, publicly available on the Internet, provides details about the program, including the program/service deliverables, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and components of the program. Please refer to:

www.fahcsia.gov.au/sa/women/funding/Pages/respectful_relationships_round_three.aspx

(2) The Gender Equality for Women program KPIs are available in the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 2010-2011 Annual Report, for Outcome 6.1. Please refer to:

www.annualreport.fahcsia.gov.au/part2/chapter10/

For more detailed performance measures refer to:

www.fahcsia.gov.au/sa/women/funding/Pages/respectful_relationships_round_three.aspx

(3) The programs/services not delivered by the Office for Women are those more appropriately delivered by another Commonwealth Department or agency, or by State and Territory Governments.

(4) (a) to (c) Consistent with the Beijing Platform for Action, this Government and the previous Government have supported gender mainstreaming as the best practice approach to ensuring gender is considered in the full range of decisions affecting women.

Departments are accountable through a range of mechanisms and on a range of matters from the Financial Management Accountability Act 1997 to the Parliament Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee Estimates hearings.