Question NW500 to the Minister of Transport
12 April 2023 - NW500
Sithole, Mr KP to ask the Minister of Transport
Whether, in view of the fact that provinces are failing to use their share of the budget to maintain and upgrade internal roads despite an additional Provincial Roads Maintenance Grant (PRMG) that they are given to improve provincial and rural road infrastructure (details furnished), he will furnish Mr K P Sithole with the details of the (a) management system that is used to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the PRMG and (b) name of the person who is responsible for the administration of the system; if not, why not in each case; if so, what are the relevant details in each case?
Reply:
a) There are two management systems being used to monitor projects, namely:
(i) Infrastructure reporting model (IRM) - a monitoring and reporting tool used by provincial departments to report on their infrastructure projects as required by in terms of section 13(1)(e) of the Division of Revenue Act (DoRA).
(ii) The other system being used is the Expanded Public Works Programme Reporting System (EPWP R-S), which is a web based digital is used to report and monitor job creation Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), including job creation data for women, youth and people with disabilities.
b) The Infrastructure Reporting Model (IRM) system are being administered by the National Treasury and the EPWP Reporting System (EPWP R-S) is a system administered by Department of Public Works and Infrastructure.
All the Provincial Departments are charged with the responsibility to report progress on those infrastructure projects via their respective Provincial Treasuries, who monitors progress and verify data quality against the funding allocated. The Sector Departments and National Treasury are responsible for overall monitoring, oversight and quality assurance, this case the Department of Transport for road projects.