CORPORATE SERVICES PROGRAMME 1: ADMINISTRATION

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CORPORATE SERVICESPROGRAMME 1 ADMINISTRATION
MR MD MAHLOBODIRECTOR EXTERNAL TRANSFORMATION
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PRESENTATION STRUCTURE

• Achievements
• Capacity of the Department to deliver (Human
  Resource Management)
• Performance Improvement
• Retention of skills
• Skills Development
• Transformation
• Restructuring
• De Hoop dam Charter
• Service Delivery Improvement Plan
• BBBEE audit
• Women Empowerment
• Administration
• Information Services
• Challenges
• Intervention to address challenges

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ACHIEVEMENTS CAPACITY TO DELIVER

• Departmental governance structures reviewed to
  facilitate improved communication and
  effectiveness
• Performance Improvement
• Performance reviews conducted at regular
  intervals.
• 100 SMS signed Performance Agreements
• Performance Bonus not paid for SMS-matter still
  to be finalised.
• Increased performance weight of Financial
  Management to 20 for inclusion in SMS
  Performance agreements.
• Skills Retention
• Retention strategy developed, approved and
  implemented
• Technicians/Engineers 533 retained from L1-10
  with the ff. racial and gender breakdown (AM
  175,AF 262CM 2 CF 3 IM 11IF 7WM 50 and WM
  23)
• SMS Managers 2 and MMS 2 (L11-16)

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ACHIEVEMENTS SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

• Skills Development
• 1932 Employees trained (11.5)-R11 342 538
• Executive coaching implemented for SMS level
  including training on Performance Management,
  Financial Management and Monitoring and
  Evaluation skills
• Accelerated development programme for middle
  managers implemented including Project
  Management, Performance Management, Financial
  Management and Supervisory Skills
• Further training was provided on ABET, Customer
  Care, Diversity Management, Computer Skills and
  SAP.
• Extensive training courses developed in forestry
  and specifically in compliance and enforcement
• Training provided to forestry personnel in DWAF
  as well as Prosecutors and Magistrates
• DWAF contributed towards skills revolution
  through professional trainees, Learnership,
  Internship, External Bursaries, Technical
  training and Learner Internship for experiential
  training (R7 794 213 )

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ACHIEVEMENTS TRANSFORMATION

• Restructuring
• Organisational structures for Branch Regions,
  Finance and Corporate Services approved
• Transfer Framework for water services signed and
  implemented.
• De Hoop Charter
• Transformation plan referred as De Hoop Charter
  signed by the Minister, Premier of Limpopo
  Province, Executive Mayor of GSDM
• Job Creation-60 minimum of Local Labour
• Systematic training R3.5m and further 25 to be
  spent on learners and/interns
• Procurement of goods, services and materials from
  ABE -25.
• Service Delivery Improvement Plan finalised and
  submitted to DPSA.
• Finalised a comprehensive audit on DWAFs
  contribution towards BBBEE

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ACHIEVEMENTS TRANSFORMATION cont

• Women Empowerment
• Capacity building workshops
• Gender mainstreaming
• Women and environment
• Events to profile and acknowledge contribution of
  women
• Gender and women empowerment strategic framework

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ACHIEVEMENTS INFORMATION SERVICES

• Progress made towards the completion of a
  Disaster Recovery Implementation framework for
  all systems
• Developed IT governance structures
• Master and Service level agreements reviewed-70
  complete
• Refurbishment of IT infrastructure

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CHALLENGES

• Inability to attract and retain technical skills
• Need to review forestry training strategy to
  ensure alignment with BBBEE Charter targets and
  challenges
• Insufficient public awareness, understanding and
  education on water and forestry
• Need to improve on gender mainstreaming
• Lack of monitoring and evaluation systems/ tools
  for transformation imperatives

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INTERVENTIONS TO ADDRESS CHALLENGES

• Implement HR turnaround strategy
• Improve public awareness, understanding and
  education on water and forestry through campaigns
  and awareness programmes
• Launched National Forestry Skills Development
  Forum Training workshop
• Capacity building on gender mainstreaming
• Implementation of Institutional re-alignment and
  organizational re-alignment
• Improve capacity for IT contract management