Department of Foreign Affairs Strategic Plan



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Department of Foreign Affairs

  • Strategic Plan

  • 2006/07, 2007/08, 2008/09

  • Presentation to the

  • Select Committee on Economic and Foreign Affairs

  • 17 May 2006




Focus of Strategic Plan : Political Dimensions

  • Consolidation of the African Agenda

  • South-South co-operation

  • North-South Dialogue

  • Strengthening Bilateral relations

  • Global Governance

    • political and security issues
    • socio-economic issues


Consolidation of the African Agenda

  • Strengthening of AU and its organs

  • Strengthen governance and capacity in the AU

  • Operationalise Specialised Technical Committees

  • Operationalise African Court of Justice and African Court on Human and People’s Rights

  • Establish AU financial institutions

  • Support ECOSOCC as interface mechanism between government and civil society

  • Implement AU Gender Declaration and resuscitate PAWO

  • Support Pan-African Parliament

  • Strengthen AU-EU co-operation

  • Identify alternative sources of funding

  • Engage African Diaspora, including Caribbean and Latin America



Consolidation/Implementation of the African Agenda

  • SA participation in SADC/SACU

  • Complete SADC restructuring and strengthen its governance and capacity

  • Facilitate SACU negotiations with India, China, USA, EFTA and MERCOSUR

  • Implementation of NEPAD

  • Mobilise domestic, regional, continental and international resources

  • Strengthen SA’s NEPAD co-ordination mechanisms to ensure effective engagement in and leadership of NEPAD process

  • Contribute to successful completion of APRM process in SA and its operationalisation continentally (26 states have now joined)

  • Focus on attainment of MDGs in Africa



Consolidation of the African Agenda

  • Peace and Stability

  • Continue active participation in establishment of African Standby Force

  • Ensure implementation of revised White Paper on Peace Missions

  • Monitor political developments in DRC, Zambia, Angola and Nigeria in run up to Presidential and parliamentary elections

  • Monitor political developments in the Mano River Basin, particularly in Guinea Conakry

  • Support efforts in Chad at improving conditions on Chad/Sudan border

  • Support a process of encouraging all role players to seek an amicable solution to challenges facing Zimbabwe



Consolidation of the African Agenda

  • Post-conflict reconstruction & development

  • Develop and maintain post-conflict capacity and institution building programmes in the Comoros, Burundi, Somalia, Sudan, DRC, Angola, Sierra Leone and Liberia

  • Participate in efforts to find durable peace in Cote d’Ivoire

  • Strengthening bilateral relations

  • Opening of new missions

  • Implement bilateral agreements and ensure effective functioning of joint commissions



South-South Co-Operation and North-South Dialogue

  • Promote South-South co-operation

  • Co-chair NAASP with Indonesia and use process to pursue concrete initiatives

  • Enhance Agenda of the South and African Agenda through IBSA, NAM, G77 and the ACP-EU relationship

  • North-South Dialogue to support African Agenda

  • 2006 G8 Summit in St. Petersburg will focus on energy, security, health and education. Key interest for Africa is to confirm sustained commitment to outcomes as far as G8 Africa initiatives for development are concerned.



Global Governance: Political and Security

  • UN Reform

  • Advance SA and Africa’s interest in the implementation of the 2005 World Summit Outcome

  • Establish regular dialogue with all nations to obtain support for SA’s position on UN reform and the primacy of multilateralism

  • Actively participate in establishment of Human Rights Council

  • Participate in operationalisation of the Peacebuilding Commission

  • Implement SA’s national positions on UN reform through the promotion of the African Common Position on the expansion/reform of the UNSC

  • Promote SA candidacy for Non-permanent seat on UNSC



Global Governance: Political and Security

  • Post-conflict reconstruction/development in Middle East

  • Support sustainable internationally acceptable solution for conflict

  • Peaceful conflict resolution/UN role in reconstruction/development in Iraq

  • Support for a defined, mandated role for the UN in the reconstruction, development, democratic/political processes in Iraq

  • Peaceful Resolution of Iranian Nuclear Issue

  • Promotion of resolution of the issue within statutory framework of IAEA

  • Promote inalienable right of all states to the peaceful uses of nuclear energy as provided for under the NPT



Global Governance: Socio-Economic

  • Increased market assess through WTO

  • Successful and early conclusion of the Doha Development Round

  • Bretton Woods institutions (BWIs)

  • Work towards democratisation of the BWIs (World Bank and IMF) and reform of global financial system



Global Governance: Socio-Economic

  • Financing for development

  • Prevent “securitisation” of the international development agenda.

  • Follow up to Monterrey Consensus of the Conference on Financing for Development



Asia and Australasia

  • Currently SA is represented by 19 resident missions in the region

  • Strategic importance to SA trade continues; it remains vital to sharpen SA expertise/capacity in the region to raise the trade and investment profile of SA products and services

  • Significance of China and India as future sources of investment to SA

  • Economic opportunities offered in Central Asia, the potential of which remains largely unexplored

  • Africa-Asia co-operation: NAASP; TICAD (Japan); China-Africa Forum; India-Africa Fund; IBSA; FOCAC; Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Co-operation (IOR-ARC) - co-operation synchronized with implementation of NEPAD

  • IBSA continues to strengthen trilateral co-operation amongst India, Brazil and SA, with the challenge to implement outcomes emanating from the various sectoral working groups. Summit to take place in August 2006

  • India:Proposed Preferential Trade Agreement provides important framework for closer cooperation with SACU

  • Tourism as important source of income for SA



Middle East

  • Strategic importance for South Africa: primary origin of SA crude oil; accounting for more than 80% of total oil imports; market for SA’s industrial, commercial & agricultural products; promising source of tourists, investment and technical co-operation; important constituency for the Agenda of the South.

  • SA is represented by 12 Missions in the region

  • Primary strategic significance as repository of and conduit for the world’s largest oil reserves as well as sources of natural gas

  • SA remains seized with the resolution of the Israeli/Arab conflict, which impacts on international stability, and will continue to play a principled and active role to seek a peaceful solution to the conflict through high-level visits and initiatives. Only way to bring about peace is through comprehensive and unconditional negotiated settlement to end Israeli occupation of Palestinian and Syrian territories.

  • High levels of economic interaction with Gulf States and important joint commissions with Saudi Arabia and Iran at ministerial level



Americas

  • Latin America/Caribbean

  • SA representation through ten missions

  • Importance of developing common positions with countries of the region on global issues, promotion of the development agenda, African continental engagement in promoting ideals of the Continent and African Diaspora

  • Actively support bilateral trade and investment between SA, Mercosur and countries of Mexico, Central America, Andean Community and Caribbean

  • Future engagement with the 12-nation South American Community of Nations

  • Strengthening of relations with Southern Cone countries through high-level visits, joint commissions, IBSA and the SACU/Mercosur Framework Preferential FTA, leading to an eventual full FTA

  • Challenge for SA to ensure a balance between its economic and political relationship. SA business interests need to be promoted in order to rectify the trade imbalance that presently exists in favour of many Latin American countries.



Americas

  • USA & Canada

  • SA representation through four missions in the USA and two in Canada

  • Significant for SA in terms of trade, FDI, tourism and transfer of technology; important for SA to develop specific strategies to harness concrete benefits and tap bilateral potential

  • SACU-US trade negotiations to be concluded, encouraging US support for economic development and co-operation, and support for the implementation of NEPAD

  • Challenge to mobilise the North American African Diaspora and SA expatriate communities in support of the African Agenda

  • Support for NEPAD within the US Administration, Congress and business sector, remains high priority

  • Challenge to ensure that bankable NEPAD projects are identified for US/Canadian support

  • SA has, in the past two years, been top recipient of development assistance from amongst 27 countries supported by the USAID



Europe

  • TDCA:SA overseeing first five-year review ; will finalise by November 2006; co-ordination of full implementation of the TDCA to ensure that takes advantage of new areas of co-operation, kept in abeyance, prior to full ratification of the TDCA

  • Strengthen economic relations with Central Europe through TDCA (8 of 11 countries in expanded EU), especially in service industries and applicable technologies. For 2006/2007 focus on Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic

  • SA to engage SA business and ten new EU Member States to take advantage of opportunities created by the TDCA

  • Continued participation in negotiations for SACU-EFTA Agreement

  • Participation in negotiations for Economic Partnership Agreements taking place between ACP and EU; sharing of expertise in trade negotiations, especially with SADC

  • Continued bilateral/multilateral engagement with EU on support for Africa peace/stability efforts

  • Continued SA/Russian co-operation through ITEC. Russia considered a strategic partner





Asset Management Plan

  • Property Strategy

    • The Department commissioned a Feasibility Study to determine alternative ways of procuring properties abroad.
    • The report has been finalised, which will be used to formulate the Department’s property acquisition plan as well as to obtain funding.
    • The Department commenced a process of acquiring Head Office building through Public Private Partnership (PPP).
  • Fixed Asset Register

    • Chanceries: 109 ( 22 Owned and 87 Rented)
    • Official Residences: 105 ( 30 Owned and 75 Rented)
    • Staff Housing: 489 ( 53 Owned and 436 Rented)
    • Head Office : 7 ( 2 Owned and 5 Rented)


Asset Management Plan

  • Programme for 2006/07 Financial Year

    • Construction Projects: Addis Ababa, Abuja, Maseru, Dar Es Salaam, Mbabane, Washington, Tokyo and Kigali
    • New Acquisitions: New Delhi, Beijing, Nairobi, Brussels, Gaborone, Lumbumbashi and Ouagadougou


Asset Management Plan

  • Programme for 2006/07 Financial Year

    • Refurbishment and Repair Projects: Brasilia, Harare, London, Lilongwe, Paris, Rome, Sao Paulo, Windhoek and The Hague
    • Disposal of Properties: Land Affairs Board has approved all the valuations of the 22 properties and also granted approval to commence the disposal of these properties.The properties in Africa will be disposed of through a closed tender process (Namibia and Malawi), while the ones in Europe will be disposed of through an Estate Agent.
    • Acquisition of New Head Office: Selection of preferred Bidder and commencement of construction










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EE: ANALYSIS



HR PROGRAMME FOR 2006/07



PEOPLE CHALLENGES





PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

  • Programme 1:Administration

  • Programme 2: Foreign Relations

  • Programme 3: Public Diplomacy & Protocol Services

  • Programme 4: International Transfers







DEPARTMENT BUDGET OPTIONS FOR 2006/07

















  • Thank you



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