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Strengthening Organizational Capacity & Legislative Progress in Corporate Services

Enhance staff recruitment, training, & retention while advancing legal framework in water & forestry sectors. Improve gender balance & governance.

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Strengthening Organizational Capacity & Legislative Progress in Corporate Services

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  1. PROGRAMME 1: ADMINISTRATIONCorporate Services

  2. Building capacity to deliver • Partnership created with Institutions of Higher Learning • Granting of Bursaries with academic institutions • Secondment of Engineers from Cuba • Creation of Forestry Branch • Creation of Gender/Disability Directorate • 8% improvement on appointment of women in decision making positions • Internal governance structures reviewed

  3. Employment Equity Status

  4. Reasons why staff leftDWAF

  5. Challenges • Strengthening implementation of turnaround strategy for HR • Implementation of retention strategy • HRD interventions to address scarce skills and aging technical workforce • Improve employment status – women and disabled persons and in technical areas

  6. Legal Services • Progress w.r.t. new legislation and amendments: • Draft National Water Resources Infrastructure Agency Bill produced. • Waiting for approval by Minister for circulation for public comment • National Water Act Amendment Bill further revised, but not yet ready for comments outside DWAF • Forestry Laws Amendment Act, 2005 published in Government Gazette on 9 March 2006 • National Water Services Bill drafted and circulated for comment to other Government Departments and selected stakeholders • Work done on • regulations for water use for recreational purposes • requirements for operators of waterworks • regulations pertaining dam safety • forestry

  7. Departmental wide performanceimprovement plan • Financial management declared key result area • weight of 20 % for top management and • 15% for level 14 and 13 • Quarterly branch performance reports • Expenditure and spending plan to be included in branch performance assessment report • Quarterly employment equity reports • Effective implementation of performance management and development system

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