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
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.