HSRC Strategic Plan
2013/14 – 2017/18
&
Annual Performance Plan
2013/14
Social science that makes a difference
Date: 16 April 2013
Overview
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Vision and Mission
Objects of the HSRC Act
Policy Mandates
HSRC research areas
Strategic Goals of the HSRC
Research Programmes
• Examples of Research Projects
• Performance of the HSRC
• Budget
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Vision and Mission
VISION:
The HSRC intends to serve as a knowledge hub for
research-based solutions to inform human and social
development in South Africa, the African continent and the
rest of the world.
MISSION
The mission of the HSRC is to be a research organisation
that advances social sciences and humanities for public
use.
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Objects of the HSRC
(cf. Section 3, Act 17 of 2008)
• Address developmental challenges in the Republic, elsewhere in
Africa and in the rest of the world by means of strategic basic and
applied research in human sciences,
• Inform effective formulation and monitoring of policy, and evaluate
the implementation thereof,
• Stimulate public debate through effective dissemination of factbased research results;
• Help build research capacity and infrastructure for the human
sciences,
• Foster research collaboration, networks and institutional linkages,
• Respond to the needs of vulnerable and marginalised groups in
society through its research, and
• Develop and make available data sets underpinning research,
policy development and public discussion of developmental
issues.
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Policy Mandates
• Outcome 1 (Improved quality of basic education),
• Outcome 2 (A long and healthy life for all South
Africans), and
• Outcome 5 (A skilled and capable workforce to support
an inclusive growth path).
Strategic intent:
To have addressed key priorities facing South Africa through
its research, and to have generated new knowledge that
helps us understand the changing human and social
environment in which we live)
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What we do
± 178 research projects, most touch people
• Science system and innovation
• Poverty, grow economy and create jobs
• Quality of education
• Human and social advancement
• Skills development
• Service delivery
• Crime
• Youth, families and social cohesion
• Health promotion, health systems and wellbeing
• HIV/AIDS and STI control
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• Nutrition and food security
Strategic outcome oriented goals
A – “Knowledge Advancement”: Advancing social sciences and humanities for
public use by initiating, undertaking and fostering basic and applied research
in human and social sciences, and geopolitical issues; stimulated public
debate and disseminated research results.
D – “Contribution to Development and Social Progress in Africa”: Conducting
research, analysing and publishing data that aims to address developmental
challenges in South Africa and elsewhere in Africa and the rest of the world.
E – “Enhanced Skills”: Contribution to the development of a skilled and capable
workforce in the Republic and elsewhere in Africa by providing developing
research skills & capacity.
P – “Preserved data & knowledge”: Digitisation and preservation of data sets.
T – “Transformation”: Transformation at senior level to reflect the national
demographic composition with respect to race and gender.
S – “Financial Sustainability”: Improvement and implementation of effective and
efficient systems of financial management and good corporate governance;
and ensuring sustainability of research funding through long-term research
projects and longitudinal studies.
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Research, Development and Innovation
• Centre for Science, Technology & Innovation Indicators
(CeSTII)
• Democracy, governance and service delivery (DGSD)
• Economic performance and development (EPD)
• Education and skills development (ESD)
• HIV/AIDS, STI and TB (HAST)
• Human and social development (HSD)
• Population health, health systems and innovation
(PHHSI)
• Research Use and Impact Assessment (RIA)
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Flagship Projects for 2013/14 (1)
Project
Duration
(Yrs)
Government
Outcome
Addressed
SASAS:
•Ensure sustainability for the implementation of an annual
survey (as the core of the project)
•Continue participation in the International Social Survey
Programme (ISSP)
•On-going K2P (Knowledge to Policy) processes – data
curation and dissemination
•Capacity development of interns
Annually
since
2003
3 &12
State of the nation (book series):
•Release of re-launched product: Mar 2013
•Next editions 2014/15 and 2016/17
•Provides insight to policy actors across spheres on key D&G
themes
Biennial
since
2003
All outcomes
Project details
City support programme:
•Working closely with the Treasury and the DBSA to provide
research support to the City Support Programme
•Initial focus will be on the 8 metros.
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2
8;9;11 &12
Flagship Projects for 2013/14 (2)
Project details
Rural Innovation Assessment Tool (RIAT):
•Map experiences and evidence (lesson learning), Design &
develop assessment tool (innovation indicators, methodology,
etc);
•Pilot RIAT across a representative cluster (4) of the 22 + 2
Rural District Municipalities;
•Implement RIAT as institutionalized Innovation Monitoring,
Evaluation and Learning framework- nationally
Spatial Economy:
•Enhancing the goals of economic development and
environmental improvement to maximise decent work - the
project will improve the evidence base to inform better
policies by developing a set of indicators and examples of
good practice by which to define economic and
environmental progress at the local level.
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Project
Duration
(Yrs)
Government
Outcome
Addressed
3-5
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3
10; 4 & 8
Flagship Projects for 2013/14 (3)
Project
Duration
(Yrs)
Government
Outcome
Addressed
Agricultural development support options to expand
marketable surpluses of smallholder farmers in South
Africa:
•Generate evidence to inform state funded farming
assistance packages for smallholder farmers:
• Comprehensive Agricultural Support Programme
(CASP) and the
• Land Reform Recapitalisation and Development
Programme (RECAP).
• Economy wide impact of state funding of farming
assistance
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Poverty, inequality and employment impacts of the
transition to a climate-resilient and low-carbon economy
in South Africa:
To investigate how the transition to a low-carbon and climate
resilient economy can improve prospects for economic
development, support the structural transformation of the
economy to achieve more productivity and value addition as
well as address distributional impacts.
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10
Project details
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Flagship Projects for 2013/14 (4)
Project details
TIMSS
•Achievement and assessment studies: TIMSS 2012 & 2015
& International Citizenship and Civic Education Study
(ICCES) in 2015
Project details
SABSSM IV
To have produced a report on the maternal and child health
mortality and morbidity as well as on the health of South
African children by end of the financial year 2012/13, and will
have completed the fifth wave of population-based survey by
end of the financial year 2015/16.
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Project
Duration
(Yrs)
Government
Outcome
Addressed
3-5
1
Project
Duration
(Yrs)
Government
Outcome
Addressed
3
2
Flagship Projects for 2013/14 (6)
Project details
Methods of Prevention Packages Program (MP3) for men
who have sex with men (MSM) in Southern Africa - Pilot
Study: A formative study of the combination package of
biomedical, behavioral and community-level HIV prevention
interventions and services for MSM in Southern Africa;
produced a report on the mathematical modeling of HIV
transmission in Southern African MSM during the financial
year 2013/14; and produced a report on the feasibility,
acceptability and outcomes of the combination prevention
package intervention during the pilot study by end of the
financial year 2015/16.
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Project
Duration
(Yrs)
Government
Outcome
Addressed
3
2
Flagship Projects for 2013/14 (7)
Project
Duration
(Yrs)
Government
Outcome
Addressed
Climate change:
Investigating the extent to which the Sustainable
Development Principles (SDPs) of the International Council
on Mining and Metals (ICMM) that relate to the local
communities are being put into practice.
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Sport and social cohesion:
A research-driven set of activities that will document, monitor
and provide a longitudinal assessment of the sub-programme
(School Sports) by qualitatively and quantitatively mapping
the strategic objective and objective statement of the
Directorate to measure the impact of the SRSA National
mandate.
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Project details
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Flagship Projects for 2013/14 (8)
Project
Duration
(Yrs)
Government
Outcome
Addressed
Adolescent psychosocial health and mental health: The
urgent need for theory-driven, empirically-informed, effective, and
sustainable HIV prevention and care approaches for the
unprecedented numbers of perinatally HIV-infected (PHIV+)
youth in South Africa. The NIH funded study will examine the
impact of a family/household-level intervention, the VUKA Family
Program (VUKA) – developmentally-timed family psychosocial
intervention, to promote youth overall health and mental health,
and reduce behavioral risk.
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2 & 11
Navigational capacities for youth employment:
Strategies to tackle the issue of youth unemployment-- need to
address the attitudes, aspirations and all-round capabilities of
young people, as well as to create relevant jobs. The purpose of
this study is to understand the factors that facilitate and frustrate
the transition from school into work for people living in poor
communities, as well as those factors needed to both acquire
and keep employment once obtained.
3-5
5 & 11
Project details
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Flagship Projects for 2013/14 (9)
Project details
Social and emotional learning (SEL):
Very little research has been conducted on the relationship
between SEL skills and risk-taking behaviours. This project aims
to address this gap in the literature focusing primarily on SEL skills
and risky sexual behaviours. This qualitative study will explore and
understand the ways in which these two concepts are related and
will seek to examine the SEL skills needed to reduce risk taking
behaviours and inform directions for intervention programmes
targeted at vulnerable youth.
Project
Duration
(Yrs)
Government
Outcome
Addressed
3
2 & 11
SANHANES:
Annual/
A surveillance programme that will continuously assess selected Biennial
aspects of the health and nutrition status of the South African
population in line with the identified priorities of the national DoH.
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Global Adult Tobacco Survey South Africa (GATS): Tobacco
use prevalence, South Africas’ capacity to design, implement and
evaluate tobacco control programmes and to assess its fulfilment.
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Every
5yrs
Flagship Projects for 2013/14 (10)
Project
Duration
(Yrs)
Government
Outcome
Addressed
Every
5yrs
2
Project
Duration
(Yrs)
Government
Outcome
Addressed
MIMMS:
To strengthen the maternal and child morbidity and mortality
surveillance system in South Africa
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3 & 2;
Millenium
goal 4 & 5
Development of a sustainable model for selling healthful and
safe street food:
To develop an operational, community based model for selling and
promoting healthful, safe street food in urban areas of the Western
Cape
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2
Project details
Global Youth Tobacco Survey and Youth Risk Behaviour
Survey 2014 (GYTS):
To have conducted the 5th GYTS and the 4th YRBS amongst
grades 8-11 in South Africa in 2014.
Project details
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CESTII flagship projects
R&D survey
• Aim: A regular annual survey that measures and records
all research and experimental development (R&D)
activities, including expenditure, human resources and
fields of research, in South Africa
Innovation Survey
• Aim: A national survey of the business sector that
measures and records all innovation activities in South
Africa and related aspects of innovation such as barriers
and promoters of innovation and sources of information
and funding for innovation
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Performance Indicators 2012/13
Overall achievement 113% (Achieved 195 out of 172)
• A-Advance 70% (Achieved 7 out of 10)
• D-Develop 106% (Achieved 49 out of 46)
• E-Enhance 128% (Achieved 105 out of 82)
• P-Preserve 104% (Achieved 22 out of 21)
• T-Transform 80% (Achieved 4 out of 5)
• S-Sustain 104% (Of 5 targets, 1 met & 4 exceeded)
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HSRC 2012/13 Performance against targets:
Publications as at 31 March 2013
Recognised Books
Peer-reviewed journal articles
8
1.63
1.62
6
5
1.61
4
1.6
1.59
8
7
1.63
3
1.6
2
1.58
Annual Target
5
Performance Q4
1
Annual Target
Recognised Book Chapters
Policy Briefs
35
30
34
25
20
15
10
5
13
Annual Target
20
Performance Q4
Performance Q4
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
10
Annual Target
8
Performance Q4
HSRC 2012/13 Performance against targets:
Research Capacity Enhancement as at
31 March 2013
Master’s Interns
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
PhD Interns
41
30
Annual Target
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
42
30
Annual Target
Performance Q4
Snr African Researchers
Post Docs
50%
25
45%
20
22
22
50%
40%
35%
15
30%
10
25%
5
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Performance Q4
Annual Target
Performance Q4
35%
20%
Annual Target
Performance Q4
HSRC 2012/13 Performance against targets:
Collaboration, Public Dialogue & Data
Preservation as at 31 March 2013
MoUs
HSD Seminars
12
30
10
25
8
20
6
8
8
27
15
4
10
2
5
0
12
0
Annual Target
Performance Q4
Annual Target
Preserved Datasets
25
20
15
21
22
10
5
22
Annual Target
Performance Q4
Performance Q4
HSRC 2012/13 Performance against targets:
Financial Sustainability as at
31 March 2013
Extra-Parliamentary Funding
Multi-year grants
60%
60%
50%
50%
49.92%
40%
30%
40%
48%
51%
30%
20%
20%
10%
10%
0%
0%
Annual Target
23
50%
Performance Q4
Annual Target
Performance Q4
HSRC 2012/13 Financial
Performance, March 2013
Narration
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Target
Achieved
31 March
2012
(Audited)
Target
Achieved
31 March
2013
(Preliminary)
Parliamentary Grant received and
recognized
100%
100%
External Income Target achieved
102%
115%
Other Income Target achieved
127%
124%
Actual Expenditure/ Budgeted Costs
101%
102%
Actual Total Revenue/Budget
102%
101%
Budget 2013/14
2013/14
R’000
Income
401 888
Parliamentary Grant
223 630
Research Income
151 469
Other income
Expenses
401 888
Salaries
200 194
Overhead
Project related expenses
Surplus / deficit
25
26 789
34 764
166 930
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Budget: Ratios
• Budgeted income : R 401 088 000
• External research income target: R 151 469 000
• Other external income target: R 26 789 000
• Staff costs: R 200 194 000
• Ratio between Parliamentary grant
and (total) external income: 56:44
• Direct staff costs as percentage of
total expenses: 50%
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Budget: Challenges
• Capital Expenditure: Building, IT, other critical
infrastructure that requires upgrading
• Budgeting for performance targets
• “Knowledge hub” for dissemination
• Future growth of the HSRC is dependent on growth in
Parliamentary grant
• Salary absorbs 100% of total Parliamentary Grant
• Cash flow constantly under pressure
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Significant critical
needs that are underfunded
• Introduction of sustained national funding to create an empirical
base for evidence based policy development/ implementation
• Infrastructure (ICT) and non-infrastructure support for longitudinal
and regular cross-sectional studies
• Capacity enhancement, staff establishment and
capacity building (new and emerging researchers)
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Support for new initiatives
(1 – 3 years impact)
• Infrastructure and non-infrastructure support for existing longitudinal
and regular cross-sectional studies [South African Social Attitudes
Survey (SASAS), South African Behaviour, Sero-Status and Mass
Media Impact (SABSSM) surveys, the Trends in Mathematics and
Science Study (TIMSS), the South African National Health and
Nutrition Examination Survey (SANHANES) R&D survey, Innovation
Survey, Maternal and Child Mortality Survey, TB Prevalence],
• Infrastructure and non-infrastructure support for new longitudinal and
regular cross-sectional studies [ youth employment, migration and
spatial development, social cohesion]
• South African Social Science and Humanities Data Archive
[SASSHDA]
• Rural Innovation Assessment Tool (RIAT), and work in the
field of integrated district development planning
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Support for new initiatives
(7 - 10 year impact)
• Green economy initiative (job creation and skills
development),
• State intervention in the economy (mining sector, Stateowned Enterprises, land reform),
• African Studies Centre (revival of a humanities-centred
research agenda and contributing to Africa agenda and
BRICS),
• Institute for Science, Technology and Innovation (job
creation, skills development, rural development),
• Process (implementation) and impact (focused on poverty
and inequality) evaluation of the National Development
Plan (Vision 2030).
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Appreciation
•
Minister, Deputy Minister and Department of
Science and Technology
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Portfolio Committee of S&T, chair and members
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Board chair, members, committees
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Staff of the HSRC
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