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Building capacity for effective financial
management in the public service

• Mr Oliver Seale
• SCOPA Meeting
• Wednesday, 29 August 2007

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Transformation to the Academy SAMDI Need for a
paradigm shift

• R1 billion p/a spent in departments but 43 of
  staff in provincial departments reported no
  training in 2006.
• International benchmarks suggest at least 5 days
  training per annum
• For approx. 250,000 middle and junior managers
  requires 1,25 million PTDs p.a.
• Allowing for 60 of training already occurring in
  departments still requires 0,5 million PTDs p.a.
• For induction, staff turn-over is 120 000 people
  p.a. requiring another 0,2 million PTDs.
• Thus, the total-demand driven requirement is 0,7
  million PTDs nearly 10 times SAMDIs present
  output!

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Transformation to the Academy Vision and
activities

• Three mantras
• Provision to facilitation.
• Competition to collaboration.
• Selective coverage to massification.
• First main stream of activity
• Executive development programmes for SMS.
• Entrant, lower and upper SMS programmes, courses
  and events.
• In collaboration with universities and
  counterparts.
• Second main stream of activity
• Massified management training for junior and
  middle managers.
• Training frameworks of curriculum and materials
  in conjunction with provincial academies and
  DPLG
• Monitoring and Evaluation to regulate providers
• The induction programme for new entrants at all
  levels.

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Capacity building for financial management
Background

• SAMDI and National Treasury established a
  partnership to address the capacity challenges in
  public financial management.
• SAMDI and National Treasury identified a suite of
  ten courses that address training needs in
  following areas
• Financial management for non-financial managers
• Public sector accounting
• Internal audit and control
• Risk management
• Asset management
• Revenue management
• Expenditure management
• Report writing
• SAMDI and National Treasury selected various
  service providers to offer the above courses in
  national and provincial departments.

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Capacity building for financial management
Implementation strategy

• National Treasury assisted SAMDI with the rollout
  strategy and setting up of a finance and project
  management training unit.
• Project Team and Steering Committee established
  comprising SAMDI, National Treasury and providers
  
• Service Level Agreements signed with service
  providers including University of Pretoria,
  Regenesys, Fort Hare University and Public
  Finance iQ.
• Training schedule and marketing plan developed
  for the current financial year in conjunction
  with service providers.
• Rollout took place in July, delay due to new
  marketing approach and industrial action.
• SAMDI and National Treasury DGs have communicated
  with departments on this FMT programme.
• National Treasury has provided additional
  financial support to incentivise participation by
  national and provincial departments.

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Capacity building for financial management
JIPSA-ASGISA projects

• Training of CFOs and finance managers in
  municipalities supported by Liberty Life
• Roleplayers - Deputy Presidents Office, SAMDI,
  National Treasury DPLG, Auditor Generals Office,
  Local Government Leadership Academy, Local
  Government SETA
• Programme components - Finance training (e.g.
  Risk Management, Internal Audit), Leadership and
  management training, Coaching and mentoring,
  Focused finance team training, Institutional
  strategic and operational support
• Steering committee has been established
  facilitated by SAMDI
• Internal audit training and assistance supported
  by Old Mutuals ILIMA Trust

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Siyabonga Thank you Rolivhuwa Dankie Nakhensa
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