STRATEGIC PLAN
2005/6 – 2007/8
PRESENTATION TO PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE
03-05 FEBRUARY 2005
CONTENT OUTLINE
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Organisational Functions & Structure
Budget – Per Functional Area
Main Functions
• Legislative Mandate
• Key Focus Areas
• Priorities
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Some key issues
raised by the Committee…..
Including DWAF & SoNA
Main functions
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Water Resource Management
(water in rivers and dams)
Water Services (including
sanitation)
(water in pipes, pure and waste)
Forestry
(plantation and indigenous)
ORGANISATIONAL SRTUCTURE
Ministry of Water Affairs & Forestry
Minister
Department of Water Affairs and Forestry
Director-General
Branch:
Policy &
Regulation
Deputy
Director
General
Branch:
Regions
Deputy
Director
General
Branch:
National Water
Resource
Infrastructure
Deputy Director
General
Branch:
Corporate
Services
Deputy
Director
General
Branch:
Financial
Management
Chief
Financial
Officer
2005/6 Budget
FUNCTIONAL
AREA
BUDGET
(‘000)
Administration
R
W.R. M.
R1 506 849
Water Services
Forestry
Total Exchequer
Account
272 050
R1 405 138
R 373 375
R3 557 412
NB: These figures exclude trading accounts.
WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
BUDGET(2005): R1 506 849 000
Legislative Mandate
NATIONAL WATER ACT (1998)
 DWAF must ensure that S. A.’s water resources are
protected, used, developed, conserved, managed
and controlled in a sustainable and equitable
manner, for the benefit of all persons
 DWAF is “public trustee” of the Nation’s water
resources, with power to regulate the use, flow and
control of all water in the Republic
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION ACT (1989 S. 20)
 DWAF issues permits for waste disposal sites until
transferred to DEAT
Water Resource Management (cont…)
Key Focus Areas
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Promote a common vision for integrated
water resource management (IWRM), and
empower users to apply best practices
Ensure the protection of water resources
Ensure reliable and equitable supply of
water for sustainable socio-economic
development, including poverty eradication
Develop effective water management
institutions
Promote IWRM in Africa in support of
NEPAD
WRM Priorities
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Licensing of water use
Establishment of Catchment
Management Agencies
Establishment of the National Water
Resource Infrastructure Branch
• Developing a business case for the NWRI
Agency
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Cooperative governance – intervention
and support by Regions
Expansion of information systems
Water Services
BUDGET (2005): R1 405 138 000
Legislative Mandate
 Constitution:
• Right to sufficient water and an environment not
harmful to health
• Local governments are service providers
• National Government must support local government
and monitor its performance
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Water Services Act No. 108 of 1997
• “Developmental regulation” approach
• Framework for service planning and provision
• DWAF to ensure effective municipal performance
Water Services (cont…)
Key Focus Areas
 Ensure sustainable basic water supply and
sanitation services for improved quality of life
and poverty alleviation
 Ensure effective & sustainable delivery of water
services to underpin economic & social
development
 Ensure effective Water Services Institutions
 Ensure effective management of DWAF schemes
(until handover to local government)
 Promote
actions
to
achieve
Millennium
Development Goals in water and sanitation in
Africa
Water Services Priorities
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Addressing Water Supply Backlog
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Maximising Sector Leadership
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Sanitation
Alleviation of poverty in the communities through
water services
Enhancing an Intergovernmental approach to
service delivery
Capacity building to municipalities in the
implementation of water and sanitation services
Keeping correct statistics and information about
water services as sector leader.
Actively supporting drafting of the PGDS in the
provinces.
Driving the institutional reform process
Forestry
BUDGET: R 373 375 000
Mandate
NATIONAL FORESTRY ACT (1998)
 Ensure S.A.’s forests (indigenous and plantation)
are protected, used, developed, conserved,
managed and controlled in a sustainable and
equitable manner,
• Concurrent competence National/Provincial
NATIONAL VELD & FORESTRY ACT (1998)
 Prevent & combat veld, forest and mountain fires
• Cooperative fire management insts. (FPAs)
• Maintain fire danger rating system with
DPLG, Prov Govts, FPA’s etc
Forestry (cont)
Key Focus Areas
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Ensure sustainable development and management of
plantation forestry for equitable rural development
Ensure sustainable management of indigenous forests
to optimize their social, economic and environmental
benefits
Ensure that communities and disadvantaged groups are
empowered to make use of tree and forest resources to
support sustainable livelihoods
Develop effective oversight and co-operative
government to ensure Sustainable Forest Management
Promote sustainable forest management in Africa
Forestry Priorities
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Playing the Sector leadership role
• Capacity Building within the sector
• Promoting Broad Based Black Economic
Empowerment in the Forestry industry.
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Transfer of Forests to appropriate
organisations
Negotiation of Forestry BBBEE Charter
Afforestation in the Eastern Cape
Corporate Services Priorities
BUDGET: R272 050 000
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Support Restructuring of Core Business
Create a foundation for skills development
• Implementation of HRD strategy
• Achieving quality Employment Equity Targets
CS Restructuring in line with Core Business vision
including Transfer Programme
Improve IT Infrastructure and Information
security and determine future IT Infra layout
Corporate Performance Monitoring
External communication DWAF’s new roles
Finance Priorities
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Achieve unqualified financial statements
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Development of proper financial systems for new functions
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Risk assessment and compliance with rules and regulations
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Management of accounts receivables and accounts payable
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Maintaining an appropriate procurement system that is fair,
equitable, transparent, competitive and cost effective
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Budget planning and expenditure control
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Asset management
Some key issues
raised by the Committee…..
How does the strategic plan and the SONA
speak to each other, how the commitments
from the President are measured, and the
means provided (funds) in the strategic plan
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The State of the Nation Address is
crafted in consultation with
Departments.
It reflects proposals included in draft
Strategic Plans and Budgets
After the SoNA, these commitments
are confirmed in Departmental
Budgets and Strategic Plans
DWAF & SONA
Economic Development – 1st Econ.
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National Infra development
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BBBEE
• BEE approach to procurement
• Sector Charters for Forestry
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Development planning
• Participate in dev of PGDS and IDP
SONA Cont…
Addressing the Capacity Issue
 In the Department
• Intensify analysis at Line Function level to
assess and plan to address skills gap
• HR Plan - Recruit, retain & develop
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Align to restructuring
External to Department
• Develop sector strategy
• Cooperate with sector SETAs
• Work with key partner institutions e.g.
WRC and NWSSTI (University of Limpopo)
How does DWAF through its programmes in
the WRS, WS and Forestry contribute to the
development in the second economy?
SONA Cont…
Addressing the 2nd economy
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Water Services provision
• Water - livelihoods & quality of life
• All households safe water and sanitation by 2010
• Bucket eradication by 2008
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Water Resources
• Irrigation development
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Forestry
• New afforestation in E. Cape
• Empowerment element in forestry restructuring
Clarification is required on the influence of
restructuring on the departmental strategic
plan. What adjustments will be required in
view of restructuring?
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Strategic plan takes restructuring
into account:
• Certain activities phase out in the outer
years (see water services and forestry)
• Organisational structure reflects the
current situation
• Elements of structure will be abolished
as functions are transferred
The establishment assumes that a fully staffed
component is necessary for restructuring to be
complete. What is the expected duration of the
restructuring process? Will there be an oversupply of
staff when restructuring is complete?
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It is not intended to fully staff components
before transfer except for “key” posts
Vacant posts will be filled by the receiving
institutions when they consolidate
Water services complete by April 2006
Final forestry date not yet certain
There may be oversupply of staff in
forestry and water services which have
more staff than industry norms
Negotiations underway to manage impact.
Significant difference between approved (29
170) vs filled (19 977) posts.
Does no. of approved posts reflect department's
actual staff needs?
Ability to fund this number of posts?
Should no. of approved posts be reviewed?
The Department has appointed 5 312
additional employees that are not part of the
approved post establishment. Why was this
necessary? Why was this need not identified
by HR planning in the department?
Shrinkage of staff to the tune of 60% is
anticipated over the next two decades. Why
are no clear figures provided in the strategic
plan on the anticipated change in staff
numbers?
Will the principle that the budget should
follow the function be applied in the transfer
of DWAF Staff?
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Yes, where functions are transferred
within government.
Where functions are transferred to
other entities (e.g. in forestry
transfers) budget is not transferred
but staffing levels and price is
negotiated
Although representivity stats are provided in
the strategic plan, there is no indication of
the progress in meeting the targets. Does
DWAF have such targets?
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DWAF has representativity statistics
in the EE Plan and reports on
progress in the Annual report, not in
the strategic plan document.
Targets are aligned to national
targets. They have not been
achieved in higher level technical and
professional functions
What is DWAF’s plan for “phase two” of the
NWRS implementation.
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National Water Resource Strategy has 2025
planning horizon, Strategic Plan (SP) only three
years
All activities in the NWRS are reflected in the SP
NWRS info on large water resource infrastructure
development is only indicative since there are
considerable uncertainties involved; detailed
timing according to need
Project details (location, size, etc) may change
Schemes for 2005/6-2006/7 include Berg River;
raising of Flag Boshielo Dam; Olifants Scheme;
Eastern Vaal Subsystem (for Eskom and Sasol)
How will infrastructure requirements be
funded?
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Infrastructure to support economic activity
funded through payments by users (e.g. Berg
River Project)
Some government funding may be needed for
schemes with long “payback” times and for social
or environmental purposes, or to meet
international obligations.
Infra development under KFA 6 (Ensure reliable
and equitable supply of water for sustainable
economic and social development including the
eradication of poverty), Strategic Objective 6.4
(Implement solutions for reconciling water supply
and demand).
Planning is described in SO 6.3.
DPSA talks of a single public service. What
are the implications for DWAF, in terms of
the transfer of schemes and of Forests?
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The current focus is a “Unified system of Public
Administration and Management”
Working with DPSA on WS transfer to Local
Government is helping to clarify ideas in this area
Indigenous forest may be transferred to
Provincial Departments and/or state controlled
conservation agencies (eg. SANparks, MPB and
Cape Nature Conservation),
Commercial plantations (category B and C
plantations) will mainly be “transferred” out of
the public service.
Why are there no KFA’s provided for the
Support Services of the Department, instead
of just the three (WRM, WS & F)?
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“Out of these objectives, support function
produces business plans to achieve the
said objectives” Chapter 2, Para 5.2.1. .
Support functions like HRD and IT are also
mainstreamed in the core business
function
(e.g. KFA 6, SO 6.4.10; KFA 9, S.O. 9.3,
9.4.1 – 9.4.3; KFA 12; S.O. 12.2, 12.3)
The Environmental Conservation Act 1989,
Section 20, gives legal mandate to DWAF
on the issuing of permits for the
establishment and operation of waste
disposal sites. Where is the KFA with regard
to this strategic objective?
How well is DWAF communicating its
achievements and WASH/ Conservation / Demand
Management/ Free Basic services messages to
stakeholders in remote areas, on farms, in the
urban nodes?
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E.G. WASH
• Focused on rural areas through Road-shows in cholera vulnerable
areas
• Support material and soaps handed out
• Partnership with Unilever
• Coordination with Dept of Health poster and pamphlet, 11 languages
• School comic on washing hands developed and distributed
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E.G. Free Basic Water
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Communications focused on 18 municipalities not implementing FBW
Most in Mpumalanga
Workshops with municipal staff
FBW communication packs to all municipalities (FBW policy, financial
model, implementation guidelines and Q & As)