ATC080611: Report Budget Vote 10

Public Service and Administration

Report of the Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration on Budget Vote 10 (South African Management Development Institute), dated 11 June 2008

 

The Portfolio Committee received a briefing by the South African Management Development Institute (SAMDI) on Budget Vote 10 for 2008/09, on the 28 May 2008. After having deliberated, the Committee reports as follows:

 

1.         Introduction and Overview

 

The South African Development Institute’s (SAMDI) primary responsibility is to ensure the provision of training and management development for public servants in order to improve the capability of the state. The aim of SAMDI is to provide and co-ordinate the provision of training and management development interventions that lead to improved performance and service delivery in the public sector.

 

SAMDI’s six strategic objectives are to:

 

· Develop and administer a training framework of curricula and materials orientated to service delivery to be used by providers of transversal skills training for junior and middle management.

· Co-ordinate the provision of executive development programmes for the senior management services.

· Capacitate public sector departments to identify and meet their management development and training needs in relation to their service delivery objectives.

· Develop and implement a suitable quality management and monitoring system.

· Establish and maintain partnerships and linkages with national and international management development institutes and training providers.

· Arrange customized training programmes in support of South African foreign policy within the African union and the New Partnership for Africa’s development (NEPAD) programme.

 

2.        Budget allocation

 

SAMDI was allocated a total budget of R105 527 000, which is a 24% decrease from its allocated budget for 2007/08. This amount includes additional funding of R10 million. The budget is divided per programme as follows:

 

· The Administrative programme is allocated R54 220 000 in total for the financial year 2008/09. SAMDI’s first programme is Administration. The aim of the Administration programme is to facilitate the overall management of SAMDI and to provide for the policy formulation and management responsibilities of the Minister, Director-General, Deputy Directors-General and other members of the SAMDI management. Other aims of Administration include: organizing the Department, providing centralized administrative, legal and office support services, managing staff and financial administration, determining working methods and procedures, and exercising internal control. This amount is further allocated as listed below:

1.                 Compensation of Employees is allocated R19 423 000 for the financial year of 2008/09.

2.                 Goods and Services is allocated R 32 358 000.

3.                 R2 439 000 is budgeted for expenditure on capital assets.

 

· SAMDI’s second programme is Public Sector Organisational and Staff Development. This programme is allocated R51 307 000 in total for the period under review; and provides demand driven organizational development interventions to the public sector, as well as the administration and augmentation of the training. There are two sub-programmes:

o       Public Sector Organisational and staff development, which administers the training trading account and coordinates the training of chief directorates located in the training account.

o       Augmentation of training trading account, which provides monthly transfers for augmenting the trading account.

 

3.         Conclusion

 

The Committee adopts Budget Vote 10 for 2008/09.