Annual Performance Plan and Budget

1. National Planning Commission Secretariat The Presidency Annual Performance Plan and Budget Presentation to the Portfolio Committee 09 July 2014

2. National Planning Commission Background 2010 Apr President Zuma appoints the Commission Jun Diagnostic Report published Nov Draft National Development Plan released Public consultation Aug Handover to President and Nation Sep Cabinet adopts the Plan Dec ANC Conference adopts the Plan Focus on implementation 2011 2011/12 2012 2013 onwards The Presidency: National Planning Commission Secretariat

3. Mandate of the NPC (1) The Revised Green Paper: NPC outlines the mandate as follows: • Lead the development (and periodic review) of a draft Vision 2030 (“South Africa Vision 2030”) and long-term national strategic plan for approval by Cabinet. • Lead investigations into critical long term trends under supervision of the Minister in the Presidency for the NPC, with technical support from a Secretariat and in partnership with relevant other parties. • Advise on key issues such as food security, water security, energy choices, economic development, poverty and inequality, structure of the economy, human resource development, social cohesion, health, defence capabilities and scientific progress. The Presidency: National Planning Commission Secretariat 3

4. Mandate of the NPC (2) The Revised Green Paper: NPC outlines the mandate as follows: • Assist with mobilizing society around a national vision and other tasks related to strategic planning • Contribute to reviews of implementation or progress in achieving the objectives of the National Plan. • Contribute to the development of international partnerships and networks of expertise on planning. The Presidency: National Planning Commission Secretariat 4

5. Elaboration of NPC mandate by the President In his opening remarks at the inaugural meeting of the Commission the President elaborated the NPC mandate as follows: • Take a broad, cross cutting, independent and critical view of South Africa, to help define the South Africa we seek to achieve in 20 years time and to map out a path to achieve those objectives • Put forward solid research, sound evidence and clear recommendations for government. • Work with broader society to draw on the best expertise, consult the relevant stakeholders and help to shape a consensus on what to do about the key challenges facing us. The Presidency: National Planning Commission Secretariat 5

6. Thematic areas of focus for the NPC The Presidency: National Planning Commission Secretariat 6

7. Branch NPC Secretariat and the strategic overview of the Presidency In the context of its contribution to the Presidency mandate, the aim of the branch is to: “contribute to improved socio-economic outcomes, policy coherence and clearly articulated goals and aspirations; through integrated planning and advice on implementation”. • support the President in leading and galvanising the whole of government and society to implement the electoral programme; • serve as a centre for strategic coordination in government in implementing the programme, so as to ensure that all energies and efforts are properly aligned; • monitor that the programme is implemented and to evaluate whether it is achieving its intended objectives

8. Policy mandate • Vision 2030 and the National Development Plan • The NDP provides a common national vision for development. This long-term plan for the country, which cuts across all sectors of society, identifies the critical trade-offs and challenges to be addressed by our country over the next twenty years • The NDP aims to integrate planning and ensure greater policy coherence in government, thus building a common vision of what we wish South Africa to look like in 2030. This is captured through the objectives of inclusive growth of the economy, and reducing poverty and inequality • The NDP and aligned MTSF is a mechanism that enables the Presidency to effectively shape the long-term trajectory that South Africa should follow and to galvanise the whole of society towards the achievement of that vision

9. Supporting the strategic goals of the Presidency Due to its transversal nature, the NPC Secretariat supports delivery against all three Presidency Strategic Goals, which are: • To lead in integrated planning, coordination and in the performance monitoring and oversight of government policies and programmes. • To support the President and the Deputy President in exercising their constitutional responsibilities to promote national unity and social cohesion • To support the President and the Deputy President in advancing the interests of South Africa in the international arena, through the coordinated implementation of the principal’s International Relations programme

10. Contextualising the NPC Secretariat in the Presidency Secretariat interfaces with and supports both Commission and Presidency NPC support, i.e. admin and logistics part of the Ministry

11. Functions of Secretariat ‘core’ units

12. Overview of ongoing initiatives of the NPC During the remainder of its term, over the next 12 months, the Commission has identified five focus areas. They include: • Advising government on implementation of the plan • Using research to deepen understanding of the challenges and opportunities for implementation • Mobilising continued support for the plan • Developing sectoral partnerships, and bringing different parties together to contribute to the NDP • Reporting on progress, and identifying blockages.

13. Categories of work of the Secretariat

14. Public participation and communication Support and advice on implementation Research Pilots

15. Operating model • To give effect to these categories of work, the Commission has established three working groups • Human development and social protection • State capacity and active citizenry • Economy, employment, infrastructure and environment

16. Human Development and Social Protection

17. Scope of work • Education, social protection, health, human settlements, and demography • Priority areas of work include: • Defining a decent standard of living • Developmental social welfare services • Demographics • Household food security and nutrition • Out-of-school youth – transitions into the labour market • Nurturing the next generation of academics • District support to improve education outcomes, including issues related to maths and science, infrastructure development etc. • Modelling the expansion in FET enrolments • Early Childhood Development • Health

18. State Capability and Active Citizenry

19. Scope of work • Transforming human settlements, community safety, building a capable and developmental state, fighting corruption, transforming society, uniting the country, and developing an active citizenry • Priority areas of work include: • Defining principles to inform provincial implementation; • Producing a discussion document on promoting youth engagement with the NDP; • Analysis on the role of NGOs in the implementation of the NDP; • Policy brief on the political-administrative interface in the public service; • Research on the changing nature of career paths in the public service; • Research on the role of leadership in managing intergovernmental relations; • Research on the planning system, and • Research on active citizenry and accountability – with an initial focus on the transparency of service level agreements

20. Economy, Infrastructure, Employment & Environmental Sustainability

21. Scope of work • Economy, employment, environment, infrastructure, rural development, labour market, international trade and related • Priority areas of work include: • Reducing the cost of doing business • Food security • Energy study • Economic transformation • Advancement of the SMME sector; • Broadening ownership to historically disadvantaged groups; • Informal community of practice for regional planning entities

22. National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) • First nationally representative longitudinal (panel) survey that tracks the same people over time • Main objective is to measure and understand who is getting ahead and who is falling behind in SA • Why some people are making progress and others are not • Key feature of the study is its ability to follow people as they move out of their original households

23. What does NIDS tell us that we didn’t know before and cannot get from other surveys? • It answers important questions concerning: • Social mobility across time and across generations • Transitions into and out of poverty and employment • Progress through school and into the labour market • Determinants of health status • Changes in well-being (income, expenditure, wealth, assets or subjective perceptions) • The impact of social grants • Impact of positive events (a job) and negative events (a death)

24. NIDS Wave 1,2,3

25. Programme to Support Pro-poor Policy Development II (PSPPD II) • Objective of the PSPPD is to: • promote the use of research and other evidence in the policy making process in South Africa • assisting policy-makers and researchers to systematically harness the best available evidence to inform the policy-making process • Has three components: research, capacity building and stakeholder engagement • Funding is €10m (approximately R140m), over a 5 year period, July 2012 – December 2017

26. Research (create new knowledge) • Generate policy research aligned to NDP and Outcomes • encourage the research projects to utilise the NIDS Wave 1, 2 and 3 datasets, • thereby increasing the quantitative analysis capacity • Run 2 Calls for Proposals (CfP) processes • Award research grants to universities (R850 000 – R1m) • CfP 1 award 8 research grants in July 2014 – ECD, small business, employment, social cohesion • CfP 2, 10 research grants May 2015

27. Capacity Building (improving technical analysis skills) • Working with individual policy makers and researchers, building systems and institutional capacity to use research more effectively in government • For example – SALDRU running Advanced NIDS Analysis course at UCT 7-11 July 2014 • Presidency investment in NIDS – PSPPD builds capacity to analyse NIDS dataset • Hence, research that leads to better informed policy makers

28. NPC Allocation 2012/13 – 2017/18

29. NPC Allocation 2012/13 – 2017/18

30. NPC Secretariat capacity

31. Ke ya leboga Ke a leboha Ke a leboga Ngiyabonga Ndiyabulela Ngiyathokoza Ngiyabonga Inkomu Ndi khou livhuha Thank you Dankie