The Government Technical Advisory Centre (GTAC) enhances public finance management and builds public sector capacity to improve governance and enhance public service delivery.
GTAC provides professional and technical advisory services, programme and project management and transaction support to the public sector. GTAC uses strategic partnerships with academic and research institutions, civil society and business organisations to provide flexible consulting services to reduce service delivery constraints in the public sector.
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Think Piece: Challenges and Opportunities to Strengthen the South African Centre of Government
The scholarly literature confirms that the South African Centre of Government (COG) is like other COGs worldwide, in that it emphasises the importance of silo bridging, collaboration, change or transition management, and implementation coordination. Some COG challenges are, however, unique to South Africa (SA), and are related to the unique institutional make-up of the SA state. This Think Piece takes a look at the COG in South Africa and then reviews this within the context of the role of the Centre of Government internationally.

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GTAC Annual Report published
GTAC’s 2022/23 Annual Report is now available. This is GTAC’s 9th Annual Report and, as Minister Enoch Godongwana says in his foreword “This report highlights the remarkable contributions made by GTAC in various crucial areas, including infrastructure development, big...
Enoch Godongwana, Minister of Finance delivers the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement
Enoch Godongwana, South Africa’s Minister of Finance delivered the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement on Wednesday 1 November 2023. The best place to access user friendly information about the MTBPS is on the Vulekamali website. National Treasury has developed this...

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The 2022 Savings@Work Conference will take place under the theme “Acting on what we now know” from 2 – 3 November 2022.
The virtual conference provides a platform for officials that have received training on the spending review methodology to share what they have done to implement spending reviews in their respective departments and sectors.
Presenters and speakers will highlight success stories but will also share the challenges they have faced during implementation of spending reviews with the aim of motivating and appealling to alumni and other stakeholders to act on what they now know to achieve the desired goals.

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