Annual Work Plan 2016

PROGRAMME THREE: STRENGTHENING SERVICE DELIVERY & DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE

5.1 Programme Scope:

The programme is envisaged to contribute in strengthening service delivery and promoting democratic governance through programmatic interventions that address the medium term strategic priorities and national development outcomes in three key outputs: (i) Supporting the consolidation of the public sector through targeted institutional strengthening interventions across national, provincial and municipal levels; (ii) Supporting oversight and accountability mechanisms through capacity strengthening of legislative oversight and the Electoral Commission, and supporting community and civil society initiatives; and (iii) Mainstreaming gender and HIV in the public sector.

5.2 Envisaged Programme Results

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  A more capable public sector that can deliver higher quality services cost-effectively to the historically disadvantaged population
  
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  Strengthened policy research, monitoring, reporting and evaluation
  
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  Enhanced Active Citizenry
  
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  Improved oversight & accountability
  
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  Gender and HIV are mainstreamed into the public sector
  

5.3 Sub-Programme One: Strengthened Public Sector

This project will be implemented in partnership with government to strengthen public sector performance and delivery by ensuring that the public sector, in its policies, strategies, programmes and processes is aligned to the developmental state agenda of South Africa; and also ensure, in partnership with other UN agencies, there is support for institutional capacity for mainstreaming of HIV and AIDS and Gender within government planning, budgeting monitoring and policy-making processes, and ensure that vulnerable groups are provided with technical and advisory support to establish functional structures and they are adequately mainstreamed within the government planning processes.

5.4 Output One: KwaZulu-Natal Capacity Development Programme

Description/Purpose: UNDP will provide technical support to the Government of KwaZulu-Natal to strengthen its public sector human resource capabilities and competencies to improve the performance of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Administration. The programme seeks to enhance the institutional capacity of the KwaZulu-Natal Public Service Training Academy through providing trainings on provincial service delivery, accountability and overall government performance. It will contribute to provincial public sector capacity building and accountability by developing training material/curriculum for the KZN Academy, training of Senior Managers on Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), Results Based Management (RBM), Ethics, Integrity, and Anti-Fraud as well as reviewing of material on Ethics, Integrity and Anti-Fraud. UNDP will support a leadership development programme for the Provincial Public Sector, the development of an Integrated Public Sector Human Resource Development and Professional Support Programme, and a curriculum and learning framework to inform the provincial public sector capacity building and planning aligned to the National Development Plan & the Provincial Growth & Development Strategy (PGDS).
Activity 1: Support to the Government of KwaZulu-Natal Support the Government of KwaZulu-Natal to improve the performance of its KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Administration
Description/Purpose: To contribute in improving the performance of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Administration through the development of training curriculum and learning framework, on M&E/RBM, Ethics, Integrity, and Anti-Fraud and conducting a Provincial Public Sector Capacity Needs Assessment to Inform the Integrated Public Sector Human Resource Strategy & Professional Support Programme, and develop required for each competency and occupational level. UNDP will also conduct four African leadership development workshops to facilitate the partnership between the KZN Academy and the UNDP regional and global network, and the National School of Government.
2016 Targets:

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  Training material and curriculum on M&E/RBM; Ethics, Integrity & Anti-Fraud and Corruption developed;
  
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  2 workshops in M&E/RBM for 40 senior managers (disaggregated by sex)
  
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  2 workshops in Ethics, Integrity & Anti-Fraud and Corruption for 40 senior managers (disaggregated by sex)
  
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  Integrated Provincial Human Resources Development Strategy & Professional Support Programme
  
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    Provincial analysis and needs assessment report
    
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    Competency framework for each government position or function
    
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    Curriculum and learning framework with learning pathways
    
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    Training and Development Directory (training catalogue with schedule)
    
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    Provincial HRD Policy Framework
    
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  African Leadership Development Programme training materials
  

5.5 Output Two: Support gender mainstreaming within the public sector policy

Description: The project will contribute to gender mainstreaming in policy making, budgeting, planning, reporting, and provide institutional capacity building to address gender equality and women’s rights and socio-economic issues. The activity will support institutional and capacity building to the Department for Women, the National Gender Machinery and Civil Society in enhancing and strengthening gender equality and women empowerment policies, legislation and programmes.
Activity 1: Women in the Judiciary project
Purpose: To support the department of Justice to produce a publication on Women and the Law - A collection of Gender Equality Jurisprudence in Landmark Court Decisions – to provide a basic summary of useful jurisprudence that may be used to defend and advance the rights of women; Facilitate a South-South knowledge exchange and capacity building visit for the South Africa Chapter of the International Association of Women Judges (SAC-IAWJ) to Kenya; and together with the Gender Focal Team (GFT), mainstream gender into CO programmes and operations
Targets 2016:

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  At least 20 women judges supported to attend the knowledge exchange visit.