CAPACITY BUILDING THE THREE SPHERES OF GOVERNMENT

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• CAPACITY BUILDING THE THREE SPHERES OF GOVERNMENT
  
• Presentation to the Portfolio Committee
• 14 June 2006

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Outline of presentation

• Background
• AsgiSA capacity requirements
• Current initiatives

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Background

• President Mbeki in October 2004 asked whether the
  developmental state had the requisite capacity
  and whether it was correctly organised to deliver
  on governments socio-economic objectives
• Study conducted found that the state did not have
  the requisite capacity
• Skills shortages and skills gaps
• Supply of graduates - mismatch
• Remuneration of professionals

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Background

• High-level skills required
• Health (doctors and dentists, theatre nurses,
  etc.)
• Criminal justice (state prosecutors,
  interpreters, court managers)
• Education (mathematics and science teachers)
• Local government (engineers and technologists,
  financial managers, town and regional planners)
• SAPS (forensic scientists, crime investigators)
• Trade and Industry (economists and trade
  specialists, policy analysts)
• Crosscutting ICT (systems analysts, database
  administrators)

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Background

• Sectoral analyses conducted
• Housing study
• Shortages of hard skills engineering, land
  surveying
• Shortages of soft skills community engagement
• Salary discrepancies between private and public
  sectors
• Assessments of Health, Education, Justice and
  Economic sectors
• Health role of hospital CEOs (training, grading,
  delegations etc)
• Education Focus on the capacity of support staff
• Justice Challenges in court management
• Economic Coordination role of dti and critical
  skills

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Background

• Local Government capacity constraints
• Capacity of municipalities uneven
• 136 identified for Project Consolidate support
• Critical problems in acquiring and retaining
  skills of professionals, senior management and
  technicians
• Priority skills identified areas of management,
  technical skills (e.g. artisans and craft
  workers), communication, ICT and financial
  management
• Management skills identified by both municipal
  managers / workers were diversity management,
  strategic and business planning, people
  management and change management

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Requirements of AsgiSA

• AsgiSA identifies skills as a binding
  constraint
• Scarce and Critical skills/JIPSA Initiatives
• Infrastructure Development programmes
• Artisan and Technical Skills
• Skills required for sustained economic growth
  e.g. Communication Transport and Energy grid, as
  well as quality public Education
• High level Engineering and Planning

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Requirements of AsgiSA

• 5 high profile skills areas
• High level world class engineering and planning
  Skills - Network Industries
• City /Urban and Regional Planning and Engineering
  Skills
• Artisanal and Technical Skills/Infrastructure
  Development
• Management and Planning in Health and Education
• Mathematics, Science and Technology, Language
  Competency in Public Schooling

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Current initiatives

• Capacity Assessments in various Departments and
  Sectors
• Health
• Grading of posts of hospital CEOs
• Project to classify hospitals to inform
  delegation of authority
• Audit of Health Information System
• Education
• Assessment of the roles and responsibilities of
  district and circuit managers
• Assessment of the role and responsibilities of
  principals
• Assessment of skills gaps in the SMS
• Assessment of the application of the SMS PMDS

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Current initiatives

• Capacity Assessments in various Departments and
  Sectors, cont
• Economic
• Assessment of governments capacity to implement
  AsgiSA
• Governance model for the entities reporting to
  the dti
• Survey on capacity to implement Environmental
  Impact Assessments
• Justice and Constitutional Development
• An assessment of the application of the SMS PMDS
• Assessment of capacity to implement Superior
  Courts Bill
• Housing
• Housing development and delivery process mapped
• Comprehensive proposals to be submitted to
  Cabinet Lekgotla in July 2006

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Current initiatives

• HRD Strategy
• Reviewing the National HRD Strategy and the
  development of a revised strategy
• Assist sectors with addressing the Skills gaps
  through training and development programmes via
  SAMDI
• SETAs active in the Public Sector
• All SETAs requested to align Service level
  agreements with ASGISA/JIPSA requirements
• MoUs signed between PSETA and LG SETA Public
  Finance and Accounting
• Suite of Public Administration Qualifications NQF
  level 4-8- Relationship to be developed with LG
  SETA to ensure alignment

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Current initiatives

• Learnerships and Internships
• By 2009 at least 5 of the approved establishment
• Guidelines issues on Internship and Mentorship
  Programmes
• Directive issued by MPSA to appoint Interns and
  Learners as contract employees - pay through
  PERSAL
• Determination sets the minimum Stipend to be paid
  
• Use of Foreign workers scarce and critical
  skills
• Investigation into the audit of the functioning
  of sector specific training institutions
• Parastatals Eskom, Telkom, Transnet, etc
• Departments - Health, Agriculture, Defence, Water
  Affairs
• Education Technical centres (vocational and
  artisan training)

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Current initiatives

• Single Public Service
• Development of Access Strategy and
  Rollout/Implementation Plan
• Development of National Norms and Standards of
  HRM/D and HR polices and Practices
• Development of the Remuneration Policy for the
  entire Public Sector
• Establishment of the SMS cadre for the Public
  Sector
• Co-ordinated and integrated training and
  development strategy through networked
  institutions

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Current initiatives

• Cascading Batho Pele to Local Government
• Discussions and presentations underway
• Batho Pele Gateway
• Community Development Workers
• Urban government service delivery malls/kiosks
• Discussions underway with City of Jhb
• Organisational Structures
• MPSA issued directive whereby Departments are to
  submit organisational structures to DPSA before
  implementation
• DPSA to ensure organogram is in keeping with
  service delivery model, mandates, policy choices,
  resources targeting and modelling

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Current initiatives

• Local Government
• Support provided to municipalities on Integrated
  Development Plans (IDPs)
• A local government competency framework has been
  developed
• SALGA, dplg and the LGSETA are conducting a
  skills audit for municipal managers and section
  57 managers
• Skills audit will lead to the development of a
  Local Government Skills Development Strategy
• A pilot Municipal Leadership Development
  Programme will be implemented in selected
  district municipalities by August 2006 through a
  partnership between dplg and the LGSETA

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Current initiatives

• Local Government, cont
• Technical support to local government
• A framework for the second rollout of the Service
  Delivery Facilitators (SDFs) has been developed
• DBSA intends deploying 90 experts to priority
  municipalities
• Municipal Infrastructure Grant support structures
  have made short-term deployments of engineers and
  students to certain priority municipalities
• Assessment of capacity of Provincial Departments
  of Local Government to perform their statutory
  functions

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SIYABONGA!