Background: The Public Service Accountability
Monitor (PSAM)
II. Main Discussion Points;
I.
I.
II.
III.
IV.
The National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP)
Compensation of Employees and Personnel Provisioning
Scholar Transport: follow-up from 2014
Education Infrastructure Grant (EIG)
III. Key Recommendations
IV. Questions/Discussion
 Vision:
The improved interaction between citizens and the state results in improved service delivery
which fulfils people’s rights to basic health, education, sanitation, housing, food, water and a
clean, healthy environment.
 Background:
 Established in 1999; Rhodes University entity
 Focus: promote the state’s responsibility to progressive realisation
of human rights
 Through 3 primary programme areas (MAP, RLP and AIP)
 Strengthen public accountability and governance/oversight
 Work: Sub Saharan Africa (South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Mozambique and Tanzania)
 Education (and health) MTEF budget priorities
 Post-school education emphasised
 (Re-emphasis from 2014) Considerations of MTEF
implications for service delivery;
 School infrastructure delivery esp in underperforming
but priority provinces
 Positive advances: de-worming in SNP but
misplaced competence?
(Expenditure and Programme Performance- please refer to handout)
Programme
Infrastructure Development (EC)
Performance
Measure/Programme
Objective
Performance
Target
(2014/15)
Actual
Performance
(2014/15)
Variance
Main
Actual
Appropriation Expenditure
1,237,092
Education Infrastructure Grant (EC)
Number of public
schools provided with
water
Number of public
schools provided with
electricity
Education Infrastructure Grant (EC)
Number of public
schools provided with
sanitation facilities
154
180
26
Education Infrastructure Grant (EC)
Number of classrooms
built in public schools
763
821
58
1,755,000
1,745,991
-9,009
984,548
57,936
57,176
-760
356,076
Education Infrastructure Grant (EC)
School Nutrition Programme (EC)
Scholar Transport (EC- Transport)
Norms and Standards
ASIDI (DBE)
Educator Personnel
Educator Personnel
Number of learners
benefitting from NSNP
Number of learners
benefitting from
Scholar Transport
157
242
85
87
85
-2
1,177,914
1,100,072
996,571
% of Funds
Unspent
11.1%
15.4%
977,489
0.7%
% of Funds
Spent
88.9%
84.6%
99.3%
(REFER TO NARRATIVE FOR DETAILS PERTAINING TO PERFORMANCE AND BUDGET PERTAINING TO ASIDI AND NORMS)
Number of educators
employed in public
schools
Number of noneducator staff
employed in public
54,031
56,284
2,253
5,976
4,720
-1,256
22,903,276
22,774,478
0.6%
99.4%
(Please refer to handout (I) for Budget analysis table*)
School Nutrition
Programme (SNP) by
Province ('000 Rand)
Eastern Cape
Free State
Gauteng
Kwazulu Natal
Limpopo
Mpumalanga
North West
Northern Cape
Western Cape
National
2011/12
2012/13
2013/14
838,925 892,095 943,436
248,201 257,762 274,820
539,707 619,526 619,516
1,144,368 1,151,644 1,206,190
832,952 879,338 932,050
447,973 506,561 504,835
311,080 323,345 354,858
105,116 113,136 119,859
230,041 236,669 258,328
4,578,752 4,609,464 5,173,081
2014/15
984,548
984,548
299,205
299,417
640,541
640,541
1,237,534 1,237,534
991,153
991,153
524,913
541,636
366,890
367,588
134,645
134,645
282,486
282,486
5,461,915
Real
Nominal
Nominal
Change
Change
Change
2015/16
2016/17
2017/18
Between
Between 2014
Over MTEF
2014 and
and 2015 (%)
2015 (%)
979,015 1,020,116 1,074,182 1,127,891
3.40
3.61
-1.13
291,757
317,157
333,966
350,665
3.40
5.92
1.08
640,541
678,974
714,960
750,709
3.40
6.00
1.15
1,237,534 1,287,034 1,355,247 1,423,009
3.40
4.00
-0.76
991,153 1,030,799 1,085,431 1,139,703
3.40
4.00
-0.76
541,636
545,910
574,843
603,585
3.40
0.79
-3.82
367,588
381,566
401,789
421,878
3.40
3.80
-0.95
134,645
142,724
150,289
157,803
3.40
6.00
1.15
282,486
299,435
315,305
331,070
3.40
6.00
1.15
5,703,715 6,006,012 6,306,313
3.40
4.43
-0.35
*Budget Analysis calculations of real figures used National Treasury inflation projections (see Budget
Review 2015, p.19 Table 2.3. 2012 was taken as the Base year i.e. 2012=100.
public ordinary schools)
Number of posts
filled
Number of
vacant posts
Number of
excess
educators
2012
64,742
59,543
8,465
6,781
2013
60,850
62,637
5,545
6,870
2014
55,796
54,031
(conflicting figures)
6,022
Number of posts
allocated via PPN (to
Year
Scholar Transport (EC- Transport)
Number of learners
benefitting from
Scholar Transport
57,936
57,176
-760
 Appropriations Committee recommendations to Treasury:




conditional grant
2015 Budget Review: consideration
2015 DBE: possibility 2014
2014: Unmet targets in EC Scholar Transport
2014/15: Scholar Transport Policy
 Proposed national, provincial and local administrative
structures
 Feasibility? (but also cautious of deafist/prophet of doom approach)
 Under-resourcing notwithstanding policy prioritisation
 Poor departmental integration
 Inadequate nutritional support
 Inadequate infrastructure provisioning
(esp. in provinces with
infrastructure backlogs)
 Fluctuating expenditure trends
 2015 Division of Revenue
 2015 Budget Review proposal of integrated ECD structure
“The most important period of life is not the age of university
studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.”
- Maria Montessori
I.
School Nutrition Programme (NSNP)
a)
b)
II.
Personnel Provisioning
a)
b)
c)
III.
Treasury interventions to regulate post distribution
Treasury: insist finalisation/uniformity of post provisioning model
Consider impact of school rationalisation
Scholar Transport Programme
a)
b)
IV.
The DBE must administer rigorous statistical data collection relating to
NSNP indicators to inform planning and budgeting …
Treasury: promote /establish/establish rigorous Provincial and District
Monitoring Systems for Tracking Expenditure and Programme
Implementation- esp where targets are not met
Consider impact of school rationalisation
Advertise concrete timeframes to consider conditional grant funding
model
Early Childhood Development (ECD)
a)
b)
Dire need for explicit funding model
Interim M & E
Thank you for your attention;
Suggestions/questions welcome
Zukiswa Kota
Public Service Accountability Monitor,
Rhodes University
+27 46 603 8583 (w) [email protected](email)