• Shift to multi-year budgeting
• Publication of Medium Term Budget Policy Statement
• Publication of the National Expenditure Survey (Focus from inputs to outputs and outcomes)
• Policy priorities determined by Cabinet at the start of the budget process
• Abolishing the Improvements of Conditions of Service Vote
• Departments may request a change in their MTEF baseline amounts (options)

• Integration of the Estimates of Expenditure (White Book) and National Expenditure Survey into one document
• Provide consolidated information on each Vote
• Eliminate the duplication of budget information
• Shifting of provisions for capital works, maintenance, rent and municipal rates from the Public Works Vote to individual departmental votes
• Introducing service delivery indicators into budget documentation
• Extending the fiscal framework to cover finances of the whole public sector
• Broadening the budget process to include extra-budgetary public entities

Budget Reform

• Provincial
• new budget formats
• reform of conditional grants
• introduction of service delivery indicators
• changes in budget process e.g. Division of Revenue hearings
• Local government
• Introducing 3-year budgeting
• new Municipal Financial Management Bill
• new Financial Management Restructuring Grants

• Draft Treasury Regulations published for comments - in process to amend draft where necessary with inputs received
• Treasury Regulations will be published on 1 June 2000
• Current Treasury Regulations and Instructions issued i.t.o. the Exchequer Act still valid until repealed on 1 June 2000

• Developing Guideline Documents to assist accounting officers and managers
• Conditional grants
• In-year monitoring and reporting
• Strategic planning (in consultation with DPSA)
• Internal audit
• Annual reporting (in consultation with PSC)

• Empowering phase to help accounting officers
• Less emphasis initially on sanctions
• Focus on developing plan and capacity
• Projects for QUALITATIVE improvements
• Long term implementation plan by 31 October 2000
• Alignment of systems with the PFMA requirements
• Gazettes on delays and exemptions published
• Draft Treasury Regulations published

• Departmental implementation plan (31 August 2000)
• Employment of financial personnel and chief financial officer (CFO) by 31/3/2001
• Monthly reporting (in-year monitoring)
• Internal Audit & Audit Committees
• Financial Statements and Annual Reports
• Workshops held with Departments / Provincial Heads on PFMA implementation

• Two national workshops with Ministers / Directors-General
• Provincial workshops with Excos / Heads of Department
• Monthly workshops and monitoring plans
• Monthly reporting (commencing July)
• Internal Audit & Audit Committees (commencing July)
• Departmental Implementation Plan (August)
• Strategic Plans (September)

• Reform initiated in 1995
• 10-point plan as interim measure
• 1997 Green Paper on Public Sector Procurement

• Lack of uniformity at national and provincial level
• Inflexibility of system
• Incompatibility with the PFMA
• Compliance with the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act

• Draft proposals regarding procurement reform is in the early phase of conceptualisation and will be forwarded to the Committee in due course

• Amendments to the PIC Act removed restrictions on investments and brought about congruity between the PIC Act and the GEPF law
• Unqualified audit reports and GAAP compliance for both organisations
• GEPF reporting in line with requirements of Pension Fund Act (1956)
• Improvement in service delivery through transformation initiatives, training and upgrading of systems infrastructure

• Investigation into the merging of the GEPF and PIC into one (government) agency
• To gain recognition as respected employee benefit administrator and asset manager
• Development and implementation of revised investment strategy for the GEPF
• Review of the investment management process
• Continued and increasing emphasis on capacity-building and systems enhancement to improve service delivery to all stakeholders

• Deepening and broadening of relations with international financial institutions
• The democratisation of the Bretton Woods Institutions
• The more equitable spreading of the benefits of globalisation
• Progress on Debt Relief and Poverty Reduction
• Influential voice in debates in G20 and Financial Stability Forums
• Maximize opportunities created by Minister chairing Annual IMF/World Bank meetings to the benefit of SA, SADC and Africa
• Supportive role in respect of various international bodies, e.g. OAU, NAM, SADC and SACU

• Establish a Framework for the Finance and Investment Protocol
• Develop a macroeconomic convergence vision for the region
• Harmonisation of a regional tax policy and administration
• Develop a regional investment promotion strategy

• Has been established as a section 21 (non-profit) company
• R855 million has been transferred to Fund
• A 7-member Board has been appointed - chaired by

Mmakgoshi Phetla

• Operations will begin this year (2000)

• The NDA, civil society’s key funding conduit for poverty alleviation and development, will:
• enter into development policy dialogue and strategic partnerships
• develop its own institutional capacity to fulfill its statutory mandate
• build the delivery and fund-raising capacity of CSOs
• fund poverty reduction projects through CSOs
• commission poverty and development research
• The NDA Board has been established
• Budget transfers from Government to the NDA:

1999/2000: R100 million

2000/2001: R90 million

2001/2002: R91,5 million

EU contribution to NDA: R210 million

• From ‘94 – ‘98, official development assistance (ODA) focused primarily on policy support
• The focus has shifted to consolidating democracy and concrete delivery in the context of government policies/strategies
• The IDC, in co-operation with donors and South African stakeholders, is:
• establishing a comprehensive online database on all ODA to South Africa
• designing effective monitoring/evaluation systems for ODA-supported projects and programmes
• finalising a Development Co-operation Report (DCR) for publication in June 2000

- preparing new policy and procedural guidelines for the management of ODA, for publication in June 2000

• Public Finance Management Act
• Draft delegations
• Training of officials
• Internal Audit Unit
• Unit to be implemented as part of restructuring process
• Public Service Regulations
• Draft policies in place
• Employment Equity Act
• Analysis to be completed by 30 June
• Extention for EE plan requested from Labour
• Skills Development Act
• Registered with FASSET
• Skills Development Levies Act
• Registered March 2000
• Nominated Skills Development Facilitator
• Developed draft Workplace Skills Plan
• Basic Conditions of Employment Act
• PSCBC to sign collective agreements on issues of leave, overtime and casual employment

59% Black

17% Female

83% Male

17% Black - Finance

40% Black Pens. Admin

13% White - Finance

30% White Pens Admin

17% Female - Finance

13% Male - Finance

19% Male - Pens. Admin

51% Female - Pens. Admin

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43% Black

13% Female

87% Male

48% Black

52% White

58% Female

42% Male

• A Steering Committee to oversee Restructuring
• Appoint a dedicated person to oversee implementation
• Identify Core Functions
• HR Expert facilitate process
• Appoint top managers to head up functions whereafter process will be cascaded to lower levels
• Process to take approximately 18-24 months

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