SASSA talks about CMAP

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has published details about our Community Monitoring and Advocacy Project (CMAP) in their March/April newsletter. They have also included our recommendations on how to improve their levels of service in the Western Cape. The recommendations were made following the first phase of the CMAP project which was completed in November last year. They include reducing the waiting periods at all sites to a maximum of 2 hours by the end of 2010.

Read SASSA's March 2010 Newsletter

CMAP completes the second phase of its national pilot

At the beginning of March 2010, the Black Sash Western Cape Provincial Office began implementing Phase 2 of the national pilot of the Community Monitoring and Advocacy Project (CMAP). The implementation was a follow-up to the Phase 1 intervention that ended in November 2009. 19 Monitors selected from community based partner organisations, advice offices and networks visited 22 SASSA service points in the Cape Town Metro, Southern Cape, Karoo, West Coast, Overberg and Boland areas.

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Sash goes back to De Doorns to access re-integration of foreign nationals

Following the Black Sash’s monitoring interventions in De Doorns during late 2009 and early 2010, representatives from our Western Cape Provincial Office together with the Gender Advocacy Programme and the African Disabled Refugee Organisation, carried out eight days of monitoring during March and April 2010. 

The purpose of these sessions was to ‘put our collective finger on the pulse’ of the De Doorns situation. We monitored the conditions in the temporary site and assessed the progress made with regards to re-integrating the displaced foreign nationals who were driven out by the local community in November last year. 

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Black Sash helps train community monitors in Caledon

The Black Sash, in partnership with the National Welfare Forum, has trained a group of volunteer community monitors in Calendon in the Western Cape. The workshop, which took place in February 2010, forms part of the Sash's 'Community Monitoring and Advocacy Project' or CMAP which aims to co-ordinate a network of community monitors to maintain a regular and disciplined presence at sites of service delivery across the country.    

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