Question NW1821 to the Minister of Transport
20 September 2016 - NW1821
De Freitas, Mr MS to ask the Minister of Transport
(a)What amount has been spent on the Air Traffic Navigation Services Enterprise Development Programme in the last three financial years 2013/14, 2014/15 and 2015/16, (b) for what purpose in each financial year, (c) how is the specified programme monitored and (d) how are the outcomes (i) monitored and (ii) measured for each beneficiary of the specified development programme?
Reply:
Air Traffic and Navigation Services SOC Limited (ATNS)
(a) Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) started to implement Enterprise Development (ED) initiatives in 2014 and spent about R11million for the financial year 2014/2015 and 2015/2016. The budget is in line with the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment legislation which requires that 3% of the Net Profit After Tax (NPA) should be channelled towards Enterprise Development.
(b) In the financial year 2014/2015, ATNS supported Emerging Micro Enterprises (EMEs) where they were requested to register their business requirements through the ATNS website. ATNS furnished these suppliers with resources that they needed to be able to run their businesses; this enabled the respective suppliers to focus on their core businesses. In the financial year 2015/2016, ATNS focussed its Enterprise Development (ED) approach towards a more sustainable programme where the ED budget was channelled towards creating an Incubation Programme for twenty (20) Engineering Suppliers. The programme is intended to identify gaps and close them through relevant interventions.
(c) The programme is monitored by assessing how many suppliers have graduated from Enterprise Development to Supplier Development for both programmes.
(d) This programme yielded good outcomes in that the intention was that the beneficiaries should participate as active Suppliers to ATNS and some are already offering services to ATNS which means that they have already graduated from Enterprise Development to Supplier Development. This also helps in monitoring the number of those that are in the Supplier Development pool.