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The cluster includes the following government departments: Communications, Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Economic Development, Energy, Finance, Human Settlements, Public Enterprises, Public Works, The Presidency: National Planning Commission, Transport and Water and Environmental Affairs.
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Access to basic services by Tracy Ledger
Tracy Ledger delivered a presentation at the public economics winter school 2022 on Access to basic services. She mentions that access to services is key to supporting a wide range...
Untangling the complexity of Infrastructure projects by Eldrid Marlon Uithaler
In this case study, Eldrid Marlon Uithaler explores the roles of various actors within the built environment space and others peripheral to the development of the Court Crescent Recreational Park....
Makhulong Youth Hub: Beast Or Beauty? by Eugenie Ninham
A case study about the challenges to prepare an infrastructure project for implementation was presented by Eugenie Ninham of the Neighbourhood Development Partnership Programme. The case study provided the NDPP...
Local Infrastructure Finance by Prof K. Ramokgopa
Prof K. Ramokgopa made a presentation about Local Infrastructure finance where he shares an overview of infrastructure investment, local government infrastructure investment and local government finance. In the presentation, he...
How do municipalities navigate infrastructure service delivery from a regulatory, institutional and financial perspective by Pule Tarafara Setai
Pule Tarafara Setai prepared a presentation on how municipalities navigate infrastructure service delivery from a regulatory, institutional and financial perspective sighting key issues relating to the matter such as “Team-Finance”,...
An economic perspective on the organisation of local government by Andrew Donaldson
Andrew Donaldson of the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, compiled a presentation on an economic perspective on the organisation of local government stating the key elements of the...
Informal Urban Development: Challenges and Opportunities by Prof Ivan Turok
Prof. Ivan Turok presented a research report with data regarding what’s happening on the ground in urban townships, the pressure points in the urban system, what is supposed to happen,...
Renewable energy in South Africa by Chanda Nxumalo
Chanda Nxumalo, the Chair of The South African Photovoltaic Industry delivered the keynote address at the 2022 Public Economics Winter School. She provided an overview of the renewable energy landscape...
Gauteng Schools Programme: Exploring PPP Procurement to Construct 54 Schools in the Province
A presentation delivered by Mr Pontsho Nchodu (Project Advisor: Transaction Advisory Services and Public Private Partnerships Unit) on 08 July 2022 as part of GTAC’s weekly webinar series. This presentation...
Risks Associated With Mega Infrastructure Projects
A presentation delivered by Bruce Dzenga (Senior Economist: Capital Projects Appraisal Unit) on 01 July 2022 as part of GTAC’s weekly webinar series. This presentation gives an overview of major...
Technical Assistance in Soliciting Private Sector Investment to Boost Tourism Development in Nature Conservation
A presentation delivered by Lindokuhle Hlatshwayo (Senior Project Advisor: Business Development, Tourism and ICT – PPP & TAS) on 24 June 2022 as part of GTAC’s weekly webinar series. South...
South Africa Covid-19 Country Report: First Edition June 2021
This official government report covers the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. It records measures and interventions adopted by the South African government in partnership with its social partners to...
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This cluster includes the following government departments: Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Communications, Economic Development, Finance, Higher Education and Training, Labour, Mineral Resources, Public Enterprises, Rural Development and Land Reform, Science and Technology, Tourism and Trade and Industry.
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South Africa’s COVID-19 Response: Some Lessons From The Past 18 Months
2021 Winter School presentation by Professor Salim S. Abdool Karim on lessons learned from South Africa’s response to COVID-19.
What Do Five Waves of NIDS-CRAM Have to Teach Us?
2021 Winter School presentation by Professor Murray Leibbrant on NIDS-CRAM.
The Role of Institutional Modernization as A Platform for A More Resilient Economy
2021 Winter School presentation by Mr Dhiresh Ramklass on the role of institutional modernization as a platform for a more resilient economy.
The Jobs Fund’s COVID-19 Response
2021 Winter School presentation by Ms Najwah Allie-Edries, Deputy Director General: Employment Facilitation, on the response of the Jobs Fund to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Impact on Vulnerable Groups and Support Measures to Alleviate The Suffering
2021 Winter School presentation by Mr Gabriel Espi, SALDRU, University of Cape Town, on employement statistics from February, April, June and October 2020, and January and March 2021.
SA Agriculture in Times of The Pandemic
2021 Winter School presentation by Wandile Sihlobo on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the agriculture sector in South Africa.
Modelling the Impact of COVID-19 on the South African Economy
2021 Winter School presentation by Prof. Rob Davies on the impact of COVID-19 on the South African Economy.
Modelling The Impact of COVID-19 on The South African Economy
2021 Winter School presentation by Sherwin Gabriel on the impact of COVID-19 on the South African Economy.
A Norwegian Perspective on the Corona Pandemic
2021 Winter School presentation by Frode Forland, Specialist Director NIPH, Associate professor University of Tromsø, on the response by Norway on the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Role of Government in Disaster Risk Management – National Disaster Management Centre South Africa
2021 Winter School presentation by Dr Mmaphaka Tau: Head: National Disaster Management Centre on the role of government in disaster risk management.
Winter School 2021 Virtual Conference Programme 17 – 19 August 2021
Winter School 2021 Virtual Conference Programme 17 – 19 August 2021
Responses to The Pandemic in Different Regions
2021 Winter School presentation by Marius Pieterse (Professor of Law; University of the Witwatersrand) on the varying responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in various geographical regions.
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This cluster includes the following government departments: Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Home Affairs, Justice and Constitutional Development, Finance, Public Service and Administration and The Presidency: Performance Monitoring and Evaluation and Administration.
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Panel discussion: Infrastructure and Service Delivery in metros and cities: Local authority responses to climate change in South Africa
Hayley Leck and David Simon compiled an article on Local Authority Responses to Climate Change in South Africa. They mention that municipal authorities, non-governmental bodies, and diverse local actors are...
Framing session: Delivery issues at municipal level: What is the key to effectively driving investment and delivery at municipal level: Observations from national to municipal: NDP REVIEW 2020
The National Development Plan: Vision 2030 (NDP) is South Africa’s long-term plan for achieving inclusive growth, prosperity and improvements in the quality of life for the country’s citizens. The review...
Introduction to systems thinking: Breaking The Iron Triangle of Evaluation
Ideas from complexity science and systems thinking are demonstrably helpful in a shift from exploring (systematic) linear net effects of an intervention towards exploring wider (systemic) effects occurring elsewhere. But...
Introduction to systems thinking: Systems Thinking as if People Mattered: Critical Systems Thinking for Citizens and Managers
This Working Paper offers a revised version of a talk that was given to the staff and the Ph.D. students of the Lincoln School of Management on January 16, 1997....
Introduction to systems thinking: Towards a systems thinking approach in allocating infrastructure budgets in local government. Journal of the South African Institution of Civil Engineers.
The Towards a system thinking approach in allocating infrastructure budgets in local government article by G.N. Kaiser & John Smallwood can be found on the Research Gate website and touches...
OECD: Enhancing Innovation Capacity in City Government
The Enhancing Innovation Capacity in City Publication can be found on the OECD iLibrary website, and it covers issues such as Government Innovation strategy and approaches, Staffing and structure, Data...
Personnel information: 2006/07 – 2012/13
The Personnel information Media Release for 2006/07 – 2012/13 can be found on the National Treasury website in the Publications folder under the Intergovernmental Fiscal Reviews (IGFR)
Personnel information: 2013/14 – 2015/16
The Personnel information Media Release for 2013/14 – 2015/16 can be found on the National Treasury website in the MFMA folder under the Publications and Media Releases
Personnel information: Media Release 2018
The Non-financial information Media Release for 2018 can be found on the National Treasury website in the Documents folder under the non-financial information
Personnel information: Media Release 2019
The Non-financial information Media Release for 2019 can be found on the National Treasury website in the Documents folder under the non-financial information
Personnel information: Media Release 2020
The Non-financial information Media Release for 2020 can be found on the National Treasury website in the Documents folder under the non-financial information
Personnel information: Media Release 2021
The Non-financial information Media Release for 2021 can be found on the National Treasury website in the Documents folder under the non-financial information
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This cluster includes the following government departments: Arts and Culture, Basic Education, Health, Higher Education and Training, Labour, Science and Technology and Sport and Recreation.
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Case Study Report: Reflections on a GTAC project to improve supply chain management in a provincial education department
Over the last year GTAC has been working with a provincial department of education on a project to improve its supply chain management. The project offers several novel approaches and...
Alignment of Risk Benefits Provided by Social Security Agencies
An evaluation performed for the Interdepartmental Task Team on Social Security. This purpose of this report is to examine three contributory social security funds which provide equivalent and related benefits...
Scaling up ECD (0-4 years). Deliverable 5 Testing Innovations to rapidly expand quality ECD (0-4) services
This paper is the final contribution to the series of studies developed for the Scaling Up ECD 0–4 research initiative. The central objective of the series was to provide solid...
Costing Centre-Based Early Childhood Development Programmes for Children Under Age Five: Case Studies From the Western Cape
This paper was prepared as part of an investigation into ways of rapidly scaling up of quality early childhood development services for poor children under the age of five. This...
The National Health Insurance System as One Type of New Typology: The Case of South Korea and Taiwan
Abstract A typology is the useful way of understanding the key frameworks of health care system. With many different criteria of health care system, several typologies have been introduced and...
The National Health System – A Roadmap for Reform
This Roadmap provides a framework for implementing a series of necessary health systems improvements in South Africa, underpinned by a revised priority status within Government. Concerns exist that fiscal austerity...
The Public Private Partnership Between the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health and Impilo Consortium in Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital
In the late 1980s the idea originated for a large new hospital in the Cato Manor suburb of Durban. Construction began in 1996, and this case study documents this pathfinder...
The Public Private Partnership Between Free State Department of Health and A Consortium Comprising CHM and Netcare at Universitas Tertiary and Pelonomi Regional Hospitals
In 2000 the Free State Health Department identified Pelonomi and Universitas Hospitals in Bloemfontein as suitable for combining private facilities with those already offered to the public sector. The project...
Case Study on the Public Private Partnership Between Eastern Cape Department of Health and Life Healthcare Group in the Humansdorp District Hospital
The Kouga Partnership Hospital is a co-location PPP situated in Humansdorp in the Cacadu district of the Eastern Cape. The hospital comprises the 80-bed Humansdorp District Hospital and the 30-bed...
A Community Development Approach to Early Childhood: Children – Our Future Communities
Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) paper delivered at the International Conference on Work 2005 The Expanded Public Works Programme in the Social Sector 5-9 September 2005, University of the Witwatersrand.
The Effect of Health on Economic Growth: A Production Function Approach
Summary. — We estimate a production function model of aggregate economic growth including two variables that microeconomists have identified as fundamental components of human capital: work experience and health. Our...
Health and Economic Growth
This paper provides the outcome of a study on health and economic growth. The main purpose of the study is to apply the spirit and apparatus of the recent advances...
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This cluster includes the following government departments: Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Environmental and Water Affairs, Human Settlements, Labour, Public Works, Rural Development and Land Affairs, Social Development, Transport and Women, Youth, Children and People with Disability.
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Covid-19 Country Report Chapter 5.4: South African Government Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equity Responses to COVID-19
Government interventions during the Covid-19 pandemic sought to ensure that gains in women’s empowerment and gender equity would not be eroded, and find that, while some government interventions made reference...
Covid-19 Country Report Chapter 5.4: South African Government Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equity Responses to COVID-19 presentation
Government interventions during the Covid-19 pandemic sought to ensure that gains in women’s empowerment and gender equity would not be eroded, and find that, while some government interventions made reference...
Covid-19 Country Report Chapter 5.1.3 South African Government social activities, basic services and support to vulnerable groups to COVID 19
This chapter reviews some of the vulnerabilities that existed among people in South Africa before the Covid-19 pandemic and assesses the extent to which the pandemic exacerbated these vulnerabilities.
Report: Review of The Impact of The South African Police Service (SAPS) as Frontline Law Enforcer on Policing During The COVID-19 Pandemic.
With the onset of the State of Disaster, the South African Police Service (SAPS) saw its mandate expand to include the enforcement of Regulations in terms of the Disaster Management...
Overview of Social Insurance in Sweden
This presentation provides an overview of social insurance in Sweden. The presentation includes the Swedish Model, categories of benefits and administrative order.
Winter School Student Assignment: Climate Change Resilience
Winter School Student Assignment: Climate change resilience
Comprehensive Housing Subsidy 2
This paper unpacks housing subsidies, different models for subsidies and how to situate subsidies within a broader housing strategy. This paper was recommended background reading for the 2017 Public Economics...
Comprehensive Housing Subsidy
This paper unpacks housing subsidies, the process of developing housing subsidy policy, housing subsidy objectives, key choices when developing policy and how to evaluate these programmes. This paper was recommended...
Blurb – Social Security and Retirement Reform Research
Blurb – Social Security and Retirement Reform Research
Building Leadership and Management Capability for Sustainable Transformation at The South African National Biodiversity Institute
The Technical Assistance Unit (TAU) of the National Treasury supported SANBI’s transformation journey from November 2009 to April 2012. The case study tells a story of how the transformation process...
Subsidizing Housing Finance for the Poor
This paper on subsidising housing finance for the poor was written by Marja C. Hoek-Smit, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and was prepared for Development Initiatives Group in July 2008....
Changing the Social Policy: The Child Support Grant in South Africa
This research report deals with changing social policy and focuses specifically on the child support grant in South Africa.
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This cluster includes the following government departments: Defence and Military Veterans, International Relations and Cooperation, Finance, State Security, Tourism, Trade and Industry and Water and Environmental Affairs.
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This cluster includes the following government departments: Correctional Services, Defence, Home Affairs, Justice and Constitutional Development, Police and State Security.
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A panel discussion: Civil society and other perspectives on basic services delivery and oversight: Mainstreaming Citizen Engagement in Public Financial Management for Better Results
The World Bank Group’s twin goals, ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity, encourage the strengthening of an inclusive society, based on a citizen-state social contract that promotes government accountability....
A panel discussion: Civil society and other perspectives on basic services delivery and oversight: INTOSAI_Engagement with Civil Society_20210628_10h00
This framework is intended for SAIs that have taken, or are considering taking, a strategic decision to strengthen their engagement and cooperation with civil society with the aim of improving...
A panel discussion: Civil society and other perspectives on basic services delivery and oversight: A guide to conducting social audits in South Africa_July 2016
The Guide is a living document that has been in development for over a year and will continue to mature as the social audit methodology is implemented and refined in...
A panel discussion: Civil society and other perspectives on basic services delivery and oversight: Auditor General South Africa: the future of local government
Auditor-general (AG) Tsakani Maluleke called on all role players in the local government accountability ecosystem to diligently play their part to ensure accountability for government spending, and for improving service...
Content session: Sustainability of basic service delivery: 1998 White Paper on Local Government
The White Paper on Local Government is unique, as it does not deal with a sectoral policy, but with an entire sphere of government. It can almost be regarded as...
Content session: Sustainability of basic service delivery: Local Govt Turnaround Strategy 2009
This Local Government Turnaround Strategy (LGTAS) is aimed at counteracting forces that are undermining our Local Government system. Root causes for some of these problems include systemic factors, i.e. linked...
Content session: Sustainability of basic service delivery: Draft National Water Services Improvement Prog 2022
The Minister responsible water and sanitation presented the National Water Services Improvement Programme to Cabinet. The focus of the programme will be on actions that can be undertaken and have...
Content session: Sustainability of basic service delivery: B2B Implementation Assessment Report 2019
Government has implemented numerous projects and programmes towards improving the functionality of, and turning around, local government. Through the deployment of Service Delivery Facilitators into the targeted municipalities, the aim...
Content session: Sustainability of basic service delivery: Back 2 Basics Presentation 2014
The Technical PCC of 04 July 2014 received a presentation and briefing from CoGTA on the development of a new approach to revitalise and strengthen the performance of the local...
Content session: Sustainability of basic service delivery: KZN B2B Evaluation Report 2017
The National Department of Cooperative Governance (DCoG) and the Provincial Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) introduced the Back-to-Basics Programme (B2B) to improve the functioning of the municipalities...
The State of Basic Service Delivery – an in-depth analysis of the Community Survey (2016)
Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has the mandate of collecting, processing and disseminating data with a view to inform the nation. One of the objectives of the National Development Plan...
Panel discussion: Infrastructure and Service Delivery in metros and cities : IUDF and Department of Co-operative Governance: Small Town Regeneration Strategy, 2021
The Department of Cooperative Governance (DCoG), acting as the implementing agent of the Integrated Urban Development Framework (IUDF), has embarked on the review of the existing Small Town Regeneration Programme...