THE KHAEDU PROJECT: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES FOR CONSIDERARION

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THE KHAEDU PROJECT ISSUES AND CHALLENGES FOR
CONSIDERARION

• THE FOCUS AREAS AND CHALLENGES

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BACKGROUD

• Most SMS joining government not adequately
  inducted.
• SMS lack exposure to service delivery challenges.
• Other people went into government as specialists
  in particular areas eg education. There is a need
  for generalists.
• The project is also intended to remove senior
  managers from the ivory towers to the reality on
  the ground.
• The project rotates from department to department

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Issues and challenges for consideration

• Targeting SMS-it will also cover the middle
  managers.
• Selection of the very SMS members must be
  communicated clearly
• Target group What is the current plan in terms
  of roll-out.
• Building capacity in the provinces
• Cost containment consideration should be given to
  shedding the project for adoption by a donor.

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• It must also occur before departments go to
  strategic planning such that there will be
  budgeting for it should be aligned to the strat.
  plan.
• The recommendations made by the attendants
  cascaded to the actual implementers on the
  ground.
• It must be integrated into service delivery
  improvement plans
• It must mandate improvement in the department
  with a view of accelerating service delivery in
  the department

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• The recommendations must be realistic and
  implementable. SMART.
• There must be mechanisms for knowledge sharing
• The intention is to create a pull of people who
  are experienced and knowledgeable
• The approach is to say that the consultant
  syndrome must be gradually eroded.
• It is a PROCESS to develop managers who know the
  issues first hand.

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• One of the challenges was getting the reports
  from the participants.
• In that the project outcomes will be part and
  parcel of the SMS PA they will be forced to
  report but
• On the other hand the participants must be from
  the very department
• The intention is to have managers learning
  through Khaedu, increasingly the project will be
  mainstreamed
• The people who must do this thing are line
  function managers.

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• It is a leadership building process hence the
  view that we must develop internal facilitators,
  as part of the mainstreaming process.
• The other view is that capacity building be
  incorporated into the induction processes for SMS

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• What is abundantly clear is that people are not
  happy about the criteria and
• Confinement to SMS
• REA LEBOHA