Department of Environmental Affairs

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Department of Environmental Affairs

• Overview of mandate, functions, concepts and
  financial environment
• .Ms N Ngcaba

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Department of Environmental Affairs Foundational
Mandate Sustainable Development

• Constitutional mandate (Sec 24) 3 SD elements
• Social - environment not harmful to health or
  well-being while promoting justifiable
  social development.
• Environmental protect the environment, for the
  benefit of present and future generations,
  through legislative / other measures that -
• prevent pollution and ecological degradation
• promote conservation and
• Economic secure ecologically sustainable
  development and use of natural resources while
  promoting justifiable economic development.

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Environmental Affairs Mandate

• Environmental Quality and Protection
• impact management,
• Pollution and waste management,
• air and atmospheric quality,
• Climate Change
• Meteorological and related Services.
• Biodiversity and Conservation
• Conservation of land and sea scapes
• Protected areas
• Biodiversity management
• Marine and coastal management
• Marine resource management
• Monitoring control surveillence
• research

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Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) An
assessment of suitability of a development
project in a particular natural
environment.Record of decision (RoD)
Certification of approval of a development by an
approval authority (Minister) with/without
condition.
Environmental Quality and Protection

• Impact Management-
• Prevent and manage potentially negative
  development impact on the environment through
  amongst others-
• Development and implementation of policy and
  legislative framework for environmental impact
  management,
• Processing of Environmental Impact Assessments
  (EIAs),
• Building environmental impact management
  capacity,
• Ensure compliance to conditions of EIA records of
  decisions (RoD) and prevent unauthorized
  development (role of Environmental Management
  Inspectorate or green scorpion the
  environmental police).

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Environmental Quality Management

• Pollution and Waste Management
• Development and implementation of policy,
  legislation, norms and standards for pollution
  and waste management,
• Promote reduction, reuse and recycling (through
  Buyisa-e-bag) of waste
• Processing of applications for development of
  waste management infrastructure (this is now
  linked to impact management processes to avoid
  duplication),
• Develop capacity for pollution and waste
  management,
• Promote the implementation of polluter pays
  principle

Pollution contamination of an environment
(land, water and air) e.g. use of pesticides,
mine waste, Waste by product of consumption
process that may no longer be used in the same
production chain. Reduce, reuse and recycle are
commonly applied global principles on waste
management cradle to grave,
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Environmental QualityManagement

• Air and atmospheric quality
• Improve state of ambient air quality
• Development and implementation of policy,
  legislation, norms and standards for air quality
• Ambient Air quality management capacity
  development,
• Monitoring of ambient air quality and monitoring
  infrastructure development support,
• Ozone layer protection,
• Ensure adherence to ambient air quality standards.

Ambient Air quality Air above the earth surface
meeting specified standards/not polluted (by
gases emitted from industrial or household
processes beyond certain limits)Ozone layer -
is a layer of gas in the upper atmosphere which
protects humans and other living things from the
harmful ultraviolet (UV-B) rays of the sun.
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Environmental Quality and protection

• Climate Change
• Climate change mitigation and adaptation policy
  development and research coordination.

Climate Change refers to a long-term change in
weather patterns over durations of time ranging
from decades to millions of years due to
increases in concentrations of greenhouse gases,
etc. Mitigations To take action that will
reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the
atmosphere, acidification of the oceans resulting
in sea-level rise phenomenon, etcAdaptation
finding ways to be able to survive the occurrence
of natural disasters linked to variations in
climatic conditions
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Meteorological and related Services (South
African Weather Services - SAWS)

• Timely dissemination of the weather forecast
  information linked to prevention of natural
  disasters and also to allow for long and short
  term planning (e.g. agriculture and aviation
  safety),
• Ensure accuracy of the weather forecast
  information,
• Ensure good state of weather forecasting
  infrastructure (radars, lighting detectors,
  software etc), maintanance

Meteorological relates to the study of the
changes in temperature, air pressure, moisture,
and wind direction in the atmosphere.Aviation -
refers to activities involving man-made flying
devices (aircraft)
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Biodiversity and Conservation

• Promote conservation and sustainable utilization
  of natural
• resources-
• Conservation of land and sea scapes Declaration
  of National terrestrial and marine protected
  areas to conserve ecosystems,
• Protected areas Management of National protected
  areas through South African National Parks
  SANParks and iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority)
  23 National Parks and iSimangaliso Wetland Park
  (1st World Heritage Site in South Africa),
• Biodiversity management Mitigation of threats to
  biodiversity,
• Build a sound scientific base for effective
  management of natural resources in partnership
  with South African Biodiversity Institute (SANBI)
  which also manages botanical gardens (9
  gardens)., incl a network of scientific
  authorities falling under DST, (CSIR, NRF,
  Universities, etc)

Biodiversity describes the variety of life in
an area, including the number of different
species, the genetic wealth within each species,
...plant life, animal life, ocean
life,Conservation protection and preservation
of the ecological resources for future
generationsTerrestrial in landMarine in
ocean
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Marine and Coastal Management Marine living
Resources Fund (MLRF)

• Promote conservation and sustainable utilization
  of marine and coastal resources-
• Allocation of fishing rights,
• Marine research to ensure resources
  sustainability,
• Prevention of illegal access to resources,
• Maintain good quality of marine and coastal
  environment.(preventing pollution of ocean
  environment)

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• FINANCES

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Topics For Discussion

• State of budgeting environment per MTEF
  guidelines
• Strategic Risks identified per MTEF
• Review of baseline adjustments
• Prior years MTEF Expenditure trends
• Projected own Revenue generation constraints
• Challenges identified in MTEF allocations and
  projected budget constraints
• Transfers to Public Entities Audit Opinions

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State of Budgeting Environment

• Global recession and weaker economic conditions
• Required responses per National Treasury Guide.
• Rigorous baseline assessment
• Detailed costing of policy proposals at activity
  level
• Value for money assessment
• Reprioritisation and Alternative funding
  mechanisms for infrastructure project e.g. Public
  Private Partnership (PPP)
• Scenario and risk analysis
• Coordinated planning with public entities
• Implementation readiness
• Identification of new outputs and development of
  Monitoring Evaluations plans.

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Strategic Risks Identified
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Review of Baseline Allocation Trends
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Prior Years Expenditure Patterns
An average annual spend of 99.8 was achieved
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Economic Classification- MTEF Trends
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Economic Classification- MTEF Trends
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Donor Funds Trends
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Donor Funds Trends
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Challenges Identified
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Increase in Expenditure Trends overall
Department

• Average Percentage increase of 21,8 - ( from
  R1,8 billion to R3,2 billion) years
  2005/6-2008/9
• Infrastructure Development in
• National Parks, Botanical Gardens, Weather
  Service, replacement of the supply and research
  vessels for the Antarctica and the Marion and
  Gough islands.
• Poverty relief projects
• Increase in Environment, Conservation Marine
  mandates
• Transfers and subsidies to departmental agencies
• Increases to the baseline accounts for the
  following
• - Establishment increase, operations, and
  accommodation, Inflation adjustments, baseline
  adjustments, Climate Change research, policy
  development and implementation and Buyisa-e-Bag
  (S21 implementing plastic bag regulations)

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Increase in Expenditure Trends per Programme
continued

• Programme 2 Air Quality Protection
• Expenditure increase from R185,287 million in
• 2005/2006 to R363,395 million in 2012/2013
• Programme expanded from a regulatory phase to
• an implementation phase which includes the
• following
• Regulatory Services
• Pollution and Waste Management
• Environmental Impact Management
• Air Quality Management and Climate Change

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Expenditure Trends continued

• Programme 3 Marine Coastal Management
• Increase from R262,428 million in 2005/2006
  to R1 027,982 million in 2012/2013
• Increase due to provision for the
  replacement of the polar vessel which will
  commence during the 2009/10 financial year
• Programme 5 Biodiversity and Conservation
  Increase from R283,195 million in 2005/2006 to
  R487,137 million in 2012/2013 for establishment
  of the Transfontier (boundless protected areas)
  conservation initiative
• Transfer Payments to the following Public
  Entities
• South African National Parks, South African
  National Biodiversity Institute and iSimangaliso
  Wetland Park Authority
• Programme 6 Sector Services International
  Relations
• Expenditure increase from R473,321 million
  in 2005/2006 to R1 345,701 million in 2012/2013
  for Poverty relief programmes linked to Expanded
  Public Works Programme (EPWP) and Infrastructure
  Programme.

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Transfers Public Entities Audit Opinions
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Transfers Public Entities Audit Opinions
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Way forward including risk mitigation

• Continued anticipation of possible short funding
  in outer years
• Application of efficiency models across all
  expenditure items.
• Re-statement or re- costing of baseline
• Targeting costs that carry thru MTEF for
  efficiency models e.g. short term contracts,
  projects, maintenance costs etc.
• Alternate Funding Initiatives Increase in
  Revenue
• Exploring more co-funding mechanisms for external
  projects- where possible.
• Timing of Infrastructure and Capital Projects
  Expenditure-
• Providing for possible cost increases in
  existing project costs for the current year.
• Consider delaying new projects -in the absence
  implementation readiness and budget.
• Maintaining clean audits (Financial
  Performance)
• Avoiding of unauthorised expenditure or budget
  overrun thru more tightening of budget management
  and due consideration for inflationary costs.
• Maintaining the balance between MTEF, Strategic
  Plan deliverables for the performance audit
  opinion due in (2010).

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• THANK YOU