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

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

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)

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?

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

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 2.3. 2012 was taken as the Base year i.e. 2012=100.

II. Personnel provisioning

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)

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

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

Thank you for your attention; Suggestions/questions welcome Zukiswa Kota Public Service Accountability Monitor, Rhodes University +27 46 603 8583 (w) z.kota@ru.ac.za(email)