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This address will be in three parts

• The first will reaffirm who we are as HSRC, in
  terms of our mandated objectives
• The second part will look back on our recent
  achievements
• The third part will look ahead, towards new
  challenges and opportunities

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Who we are
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The HSRC who we are and what we do

• First, we promote, support and co-ordinate
  research in the human and social sciences. In
  this regard I see the HSRC as a doer, a catalyst,
  and as an energizer
• Second, the HSRC provides advice to
  decision-makers, based on this research
• Third, we distribute the results of research

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who we are and what we do (cont.)

• Fourth, we conduct public interest research and
  evaluate implementation of programmes
• Fifth, we train young and upcoming researchers,
  particularly women and black South Africans,
  something about which I am personally very
  passionate, for obvious reasons

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To achieve these goals, we are supported by

• Government at all levels
• Donor organisations and other funders of
  research
• Other research entities universities, fellow
  science Councils, NGOs, as well as the media, and
  
• Individuals who participate as participants in
  surveys or interviews and the potential
  beneficiaries of our research

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Our recent achievements
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What we have achieved in the year under review

• Sound financial management and overall
  performance in terms of the Public Finance
  Management Act (Income Statement on page 134)
• Received a positive report by the Auditor-General
  (page 98 of the Annual Report)
• For every R1 it received from the Parliamentary
  Grant, the HSRC has raised nearly R2 from other
  sources (page 141 Annual Report)
• Not accumulated either an undue surplus or a
  deficit, despite having to manage an overall
  turnover of close to R240 million for the year

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Excellent performance against its rigorous
COUPE benchmarks

• C for contracts and grants (to expand the HSRCs
  funding base in a sustainable manner)
• O for outreach (to improve external
  collaboration, thereby benefiting research
  capacity, quality and impact),
• U for user needs (to ensure that our research
  remains relevant),
• P for performance (focusing on improved
  organisational performance in terms of both
• E for excellence

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COUPE indicators Mar.01-'05
COUPE Definition
Contracts/grants Research earnings as a percentage of total research income 62
Outreach Percentage of projects with external participation 55
Users Percentage of competitive tenders that are successful 33
Performance Equity Percentage of black researchers (excluding interns) 55
Performance Efficiency Percentage of researchers in total staff 60
Excellence Publications Refereed journal articles, per researcher head, as , unadjusted 75
Excellence Qualification Percentage of researchers with Masters or Doctorate degrees (excluding interns) 90
Target 05/06

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58 including interns
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Special achievements for the year

• Large-scale survey of training in private
  enterprises for the Department of Labour
• Developed a model, AQEE (literally, a key) to
  evaluate the functioning of education systems
  (Access, Quality, Efficiency, Equity)
• Comprehensive survey, with UKZN and MRC, of
  demand and supply of educators, taking into
  account the effects of HIV/AIDS (in cooperation
  with labour movement, policy makers, Council)

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Special achievements for the year (cont.)

• HIV front groundbreaking study with MRC and
  University of Stellenbosch on HIV exposure risk
  to children in Free State
• Exposed risks in dental, maternal and neonatal
  services resulting in appropriate interventions

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Special achievements for the year (cont.)

• SAHARA is a continent-wide network
• Facilitates multi-country,multi-site studies
• Collaborates with SADC, NEPAD, universities,
  governments and NGOs
• Transfers income to research partners in
  Southern, Eastern, Central and West Africa

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Special achievements for the year (cont.)

• Birth to 20 largest and longest running study
  of child youth and health, currently looking at
  sexual and reproductive health risks, and risks
  for chronic diseases

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Special achievements for the year (cont.)

• Commissioned by government large repeat-visit
  monitoring survey to track service delivery,
  evaluate performance and measure efficacy of
  interventions
• HSRC data officially designated Official
  Statistics for the National RD also recognised
  by the OECD in Paris
• HSRC and partners have established FIVIMS for
  monitoring food insecurity for Department of
  Agriculture

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The future
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My vision for the future

• Make HSRC both a human and social sciences
  research council
• Use history, philosophy, arts, culture, heritage,
  language, religion to gain new insights into our
  society
• The HSRC will be the knowledge hub for research,
  debate and generation of solutions on public
  policy challenges
• The HSRC will create implementation research
  networks of researchers, policy makers, NGOs,
  donors to implement evidence-based programmes

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My vision for the future (cont.)

• Outreach into Africa not in coloniser or
  imperialist mode, but as research catalyst and
  to promote collaborative research for capacity
  building
• The HSRC will endeavour to create Africa-wide
  networks to jointly explore their history better
  to understand their milieu
• The HSRC will seek to attract African visiting
  scholars, fellows and scientists to harness their
  energies and scientific expertise

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Policy Analysis Unit (PAU)

• To serve as a think tank targeting critical
  challenges facing our country
• To bring together multidisciplinary theorists and
  intellectuals
• To provide forum for discussion of key societal
  issues and inform policy makers, activists,
  donors
• To host time-limited initiatives on critical
  issues such as employment and quality of
  education

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Current time-limited PAU initiatives

• Employment , Growth and Development initiative
  will identify scenarios and strategies for
  unemployment reduction and employment creation
• National Education Quality Improvement initiative
  to harness regional collaboration to develop a
  systems model for incorporation of relevant
  knowledge in policy making

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Organisational Restructuring

• Restructuring objectives
• To streamline institutional governance
• To promote greater synergy between cognate
  research initiatives
• To streamline donor support
• Increase efficiency
• Facilitate greater collaboration between research
  programmes

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Structure of the HSRC
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Organisational Restructuring (cont.)

• Restructuring objectives
• Need to strengthen the role and position of the
  human sciences, alongside the social sciences, in
  our research. Currently, the human part of the
  HSRC is silent. The HSRC has not
• Need to systematically used history, philosophy,
  arts, culture, language, religion and tradition
  to gain new insights into, and make sense of our
  continent and society

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