1. Submission on the 2015 Division of Revenue Amendment Bill and 2014/15 Outcomes The Public Service Accountability Monitor Zukiswa Kota : Wednesday, 11th November Parliament, Cape Town

2. Presentation Outline
Background: The Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM)
Main Discussion Points;
The National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP)
Compensation of Employees and Personnel Provisioning
Scholar Transport: follow-up from 2014
Education Infrastructure Grant (EIG)
Key Recommendations
Questions/Discussion

3. The Public Service Accountability Monitor
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)

4. MTBPS/DoRAB highlighted priorities
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?

5. Budget outcomes 2014/15
(Expenditure and Programme Performance- please refer to handout)

6. I. The School Nutrition Programme
(Please refer to handout (I) for Budget analysis table*) *Budget Analysis calculations of real figures used National Treasury inflation projections (see Budget Review 2015, p.19 Table was taken as the Base year i.e. 2012=100.

8. II. Personnel provisioning

9. III. Scholar Transport
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)

10. IV. The case for ECD
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

11. Key recommendations School Nutrition Programme (NSNP)
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
Personnel Provisioning
Treasury interventions to regulate post distribution
Treasury: insist finalisation/uniformity of post provisioning model
Consider impact of school rationalisation
Scholar Transport Programme
Advertise concrete timeframes to consider conditional grant funding model
Early Childhood Development (ECD)
Dire need for explicit funding model
Interim M & E

12. Thank you for your attention; Suggestions/questions welcome
Zukiswa Kota
Public Service Accountability Monitor,
Rhodes University
+27 46 603 8583 (w)