1. PRESENTATION TO THE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE OF AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES
2014/ /19 STRATEGIC AND ANNUAL PERFORMANCE PLAN PRESENTATION
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES
08 July 2014
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2. Overview of the Minister Strategic Overview
Presentation Outline
Compliance Statement
Overview of the Minister
Strategic Overview
Strategic goals and objectives
Strategic outcomes oriented goals
Objective statements
Annual Performance Plans
Staff Establishment and Organogram
Budget
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3. Compliance Statement
In terms of Section 55 (2) (b) and Section 56 of the Constitution, the National Assembly must provide mechanisms to maintain oversight of any organ of state and may summon/require any institution to report to it.
In acknowledgement of the responsibility of the Portfolio Committee, the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) herewith:
Presents its 2014/ /19 Strategic Plan and 2014/15 Annual Performance Plan (APP) to enable the Portfolio Committee to exercise oversight and to recommend the same to Parliament.
Reports that the Strategic Plan and APP was tabled in Parliament on 27 June 2014
This Strategic Plan is in line with the requirements of the Public Finance Management Act and Treasury Regulations.
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4. Overview
The Strategic Plan is premised on key government medium-term priorities that are informed by the National Development Plan (NDP) and the New Growth Path (NGP) which repositions food security and agrarian transformation high on the economic development agenda of the country.
In his State of the Nation Address (SONA), on 17 June 2014, President Zuma stated that “ we have to embark on radical socio-economic transformation to push back the triple challenge We have identified agriculture as a key job driver.” The President went on to say that Government will provide comprehensive support to smallholder farmers and support will be provided to communities as well to engage in food production and subsistence farming to promote food security, in line with the Fetsa Tlala food production programme.
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5. Organisational Environment
DAFF in its current form was established in 2009.
Forestry was formerly with the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry
Fisheries was with the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism
A significant part of the 2009/14 term was devoted to the integration and merging of these functions into a new department delivering a shared mandate.
Agriculture is a concurrent function while Forestry and Fisheries are national functions.
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6. 2014/15 – 2018/19 STRATEGIC PLAN
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7. Table of Contents: Strategic Plan
Foreword, Statements and Sign-off
Strategic Overview
Programme and Sub-programme plans
Links to other plans
Annual Performance Plans
Technical Indicator Description
Service Delivery Improvement Plan
Budget
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8. Strategic Overview
VISION
United, prosperous and transformed agricultural sector that contributes to food
security for all
MISSION
Advancing food security and agrarian transformation in the agricultural sector through innovative, inclusive and sustainable policies and programmes
VALUES
Drive: driven to deliver excellent service through leadership and professionalism
Attitude: being an ambitious, passionate, reliable and dedicated workforce
Fairness: acting with objectivity, empathy, integrity and transparency
Focus: focusing on people, economic and rural development
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9. Legislative and Policy Mandates
The Constitutional mandate of DAFF is derived from sections 24(b)(iii), 27(1)(b) of the Constitution.
The Legislative mandate of DAFF is derived from 31 Acts of Parliament related to Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries which are managed by the DAFF.
The policy mandates includes:
National Development Plan
Medium Term Strategic Framework
Industrial Policy Action Plan Integrated Growth and Development Plan
Agricultural Policy Action Plan
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10. Situational Analysis – Key Issues
Thousands of hectares of underutilised arable land that can be put back into production,
especially with concerted support for input access, mechanisation services, technical support and linkages to local markets
Increased movement of goods and people which, in turn, has led to increased risk to the country and the necessity for increased measures to anticipate and prevent possible introductions of animal diseases, plant pests, and other undesirable articles such as unsafe food and feed, including agricultural remedies
The growing food insecurity not only in South Africa but in Southern Africa, climate change and inadequate investment in agricultural production
Market access for developing producers has also been identified as one of the key challenges for the department.
The challenge facing the sector is to diversify its export destinations, as well as to broaden the basket of commodities and value-added products that are destined for export markets.
The challenge of growing the smallholder sector is closely tied up with the challenge of making smallholder agriculture more remunerative. Currently, more than half of all smallholder households live below the poverty line
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11. Situational Analysis – Key Issues
One of the main limitations with fisheries is that catch volumes depend on fish stocks, which vary naturally and/or are subject to depletion owing to overexploitation.
Inshore species, especially, tend to be in a state of stock depletion, increasing illegal fishing and poaching, and increasing demand for access to the finite marine resources.
Promote transformation in the sector by modifying its licensing regime as per the Small-scale Fisheries Sector Policy in South Africa.
Decline in both softwood and hardwood plantation area planted since the mid-1990s,and secondly, there has been a marked increase in the area for pulpwood purposes as compared to the area for saw logs and mining timber.
Shortages of timber products; biased equity distributing in the value chain; slow afforestation uptake owing to cumbersome licensing processes and the impact of natural hazards which threaten food security.
It is important to note that the competitiveness of agriculture is being eroded by high and rising input costs.
Unsustainable land-use practices are intensifying and this has contributed to the deterioration of soils.
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12. Strategic Planning Process
Strategic Planning, and performance monitoring and reporting, is an institutionalised
business process.
It is a iterative annual process
May: The Department commences with the planning process by conducting environmental scan
June: Consolidate research, and identify high level priorities
July-August: The planning Quarterly Review meeting takes place to prepare the first draft strategic plan with APP
August: First draft strategic plan submitted to DPME and Treasury
October: Develop second draft strategic Plan , refine the indicators and align to government wide priorities
November- Submit second draft strategic plan submitted to DPME and Treasury
December, January-February: Refine the strategic plan, align the budget and all the requirements in preparation for tabling
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13. Strategic Goals and Objectives
Strategic Objectives
1: Effective and efficient
strategic leadership,
governance and
administration
1.1: Strengthen the culture of compliance with statutory requirements and good
governance practice
1.2: Strengthen the support, guidance and interaction with stakeholders in the
sector
1.3: Strengthen institutional mechanisms for integrated policy and planning in
the sector
2: Enhanced production, employment and economic
growth in the sector
2.1: Advance APAP through increased production and productivity in prioritised
value chains
2.2: Effective management of biosecurity and sector related risks
2.3: Ensure support for market access and processing of agriculture, forestry and
fisheries products
3: Enabling environment for food security and sector transformation
3.1: Lead and coordinate government food security initiatives
3.2: Enhance skills capacity for efficient delivery in the sector
3.3: Strengthen planning, implementation and monitoring of comprehensive
support programmes
4: Sustainable use of natural
resources in the sector
4.1: Ensure the conservation, protection, rehabilitation and recovery of depleted
and degraded natural resources
4.2: Ensure appropriate responses to climate change through the implementation
of effective prescribed frameworks
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14. Strategic Outcome Oriented Goals
Statement/Purpose
Goal:1
Provide leadership and administrative support to achieve sector and organizational goals in accordance with prescribed frameworks
Goal:2
Ensure profitable and safe production that contributes to increased market access
Goal:3
Lead and create an enabling environment for effective implementation of government food security initiatives aimed at improving the availability of food
Goal:4
Ensure sustainable use of natural resources
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15. Objective Statements – Programme 1
Maintain a sound system of internal control and risk management through the development of the Risk Management Plan and continuous updating of Risk Register and development of Internal Audit Plan and performance reports.
Strengthen the skills and human resource base through implementation of the HR Plan and HRD Strategy.
Improve financial management to obtain an unqualified audit opinion annually.
Provide an enabling environment for the implementation of policies and Bills to Cabinet
Integrated funding framework approved and implemented.
Strengthen relations between national and provincial, local and international stakeholders through coordination of 38 stakeholder engagements and implementation of communication strategy per annum.
Integrate the departmental planning processes and mechanisms to reflect the broad strategic outcomes of government with a focus to implement performance measures to improve decision making.
Coordinate policy and research agenda to align with the department’s mandate and key strategic priorities.
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16. Objective Statements – Programme 2
Promote animal, plant production and products for prioritised value-chain commodities through monitoring, implementation of animal improvement schemes and plant legislated certification and improvement schemes.
Enforce regulatory framework to reduce level of disease outbreaks in production areas and interception at export channels.
Ensure Integrated Animal Disease Management Plan is developed and implemented.
Enforce regulatory framework to reduce level of disease outbreaks in production areas and interception at export channels to a minimum by implementing regulatory compliance and monitoring interventions to prevent plant and animal pest/disease outbreaks (quarantine inspections, surveillance and testing).
Ensure access to primary health care services for 23 district municipalities by finalising Compulsory Community Services (CCS) regulations, delivering mobile units and deploying veterinary graduates to rural areas.
Endangered Indigenous agricultural genetic resources conserved in situ and ex situ to prevent extinction of animal species and landrace crops per year.
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17. Objective Statements – Programme 3
Institutionalise the national policy on food and nutrition security by facilitating the development and implementation of the Food and Nutrition Security Implementation Plan, coordinate establishment of food security committees and support to smallholder producers.
Improve delivery capacity in support of sustainable growth in the sector through the implementation of the AFF National Education and Training Strategy and National Extension and Advisory Policy/
Provide strategic leadership to ensure effective and efficient utilisation of all farmer development support through the development and implementation of norms and standards on comprehensive support to different categories of producers.
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18. Objective Statements – Programme 4
Smallholder and commercial producers in rural areas organised and linked to mainstream markets.
Coordinate processes aimed at resolving value-chain problems with the purpose of enhancing value chain competitiveness and meeting consumer needs institutionalising fresh produce, fruit, poultry, and the grain and dairy value chain.
Establish new cooperatives through mobilisation of smallholder producers into organised structures and provide support (training) to existing cooperatives.
Ensure compliance to charters through monitoring the implementation of the AgriBEE Sector Code and Forestry Sector Code and align these sector codes to the Amended BBBEE codes.
Implement initiatives to support producers to access international markets through the implementation of the Trade Strategy and International Relations Strategy.
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19. Objective Statements – Programme 5
Ensure sustainable irrigation by supporting the revitalisation and expansion of irrigation schemes through developing an irrigation strategy that is approved by EXCO and revitalising ha on irrigation schemes.
Replanting ha in Temporary Unplanted Places areas caused by clear-felling operations and other factors such as fire damage.
Restore ha of agricultural land through rehabilitation.
Restore ha of land through rehabilitation of state indigenous forests and woodlands.
Implement climate change programmes in order to improve the adaptability and productivity of livestock and plant species.
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20. Objective Statements – Programme 6
Provision of technical and advisory support services to fish farms.
Aquaculture Bill developed to create an enabling environment for the sector growth.
Conduct aquaculture research projects to support sustainable development of the aquaculture sector.
Framework for allocation of fishing rights (access to harvest fish for a specific period of time) to commercial fishing sectors to ensure sustainable utilisation, as well as equitable and orderly access to the marine living resources.
Implement Small Scale Fishing Policy to alleviate poverty and promote food security through the cooperative development and support programme.
Implement compliance through enforcement mechanisms (inspections, investigations on rights holders, partnerships with law-enforcement agencies, development of marine data monitoring system and capacity building in respect of the enforcement of Marine Living Resources Act (MLRA) of the Integrated Fisheries Security Strategy (IFSS) in order to combat illegal fishing activities.
Measure the percentage of fish stock levels to rebuild threatened fish stock (hake, West Coast rock lobster and abalone).
Implement efforts to recover prioritized fish stocks (hake, west coast rock lobster and abalone) to ensure resource and industry sustainability.
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21. Programme 1 - Administration
Develop an efficient and effective internal controls to ensure that we maintain the status of an Unqualified audit report.
Approve and implement Human Resource Plan and implemented.
Develop a framework to Integrate Development Funding.
Table 14 Bills to Cabinet.
Establish and coordinate Institutional structures and ensure their functionality.
Align the Strategic plan and APP to MTSF, while ensuring also reviewing all the DAFF policies for compliance and relevance to the needs of the sector.
Research aligned to key strategic priorities and protocols.
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22. Programme 2 - Agricultural Production, Health and Food Safety
Provide animal improvement schemes for prioritised value chain commodities and plant legislated certification Improvement schemes
Conduct planned animal disease risk surveillance to detect, prevent and mitigate animal diseases and pests
Implemented regulatory compliance and monitoring interventions in plant and animal to prevent pest and disease outbreaks
Develop and implement Animal Disease Management Plan to ensure effective
Management of biosecurity and related sector risks
Compulsory Community Service Programme will be implemented
Primary Animal Health Care Programme will be implemented through the delivery of clinics to provinces
Conserve indigenous/ Endangered agricultural Genetic resources in situ and ex situ
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23. Programme 3 - Food Security and Agrarian Reform
Lead and coordinate government food security initiatives by implementing Food Security and Nutrition Policy , continuously support smallholders producers.
Cultivate hectares for food in communal areas and land reform projects.
Enhance Skills capacity for efficient Service delivery in the sector by reviewing and implementing National Education and Training Strategy and the National Extension and Advisory Policy.
Develop norms and standards for comprehensive producer development support to strengthen planning, implementation and monitoring of comprehensive support.
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24. Programme 4 - Economic Development, Trade and Marketing
Ensure support for market access and processing of AFF products by :
Linking producers to markets and Institutionalise Value-chain networks
Establish commodity based cooperatives and continue to support existing with training
Report on implementation of the AgriBEE Sector Code and the implementation of the Forestry Sector Code
Implemented
Through Trade Strategy DAFF will monitor and implement trade Agreements and participate in trade negotiations, facilitate capacity building on market Research and market Intelligence in partnership with ITC
Facilitate SADC and AU engagements
Strategic engagement of partners within Africa and Africa multilateral agencies for implementation of joint projects and action plans
Through International Relations Strategy implementation, CAADP compact will be signed
Strategic engagement of partners within South-South, North-South and multilateral
agencies/ forums
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25. Forestry and Natural Resources Management
Ensure the conservation, protection and rehabilitation of hectares of agricultural land, woodlands and Indigenous forests
Ensure appropriate responses to climate change through the implementation of effective prescribed frameworks and including implementation of Climate change programme
Increase production and productivity In prioritised value chains by planting of hectares in Temporary Unplanted Places
Develop Irrigation Strategy in support of irrigated agriculture
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26. Programme 5 - Fisheries Management
Increase production and productivity through supporting fish farms supported
Develop Aquaculture Bill and conduct aquaculture research projects
Develop and implement framework for Fishing Rights Allocation Process (FRAP) to address the process in allocating Rights
Small-scale fisheries policy will be implemented
Regulations promulgated under MLRA amended to include the management of the Small-scale fisheries Sector
DAFF will implement the Integrated Fisheries Security Strategy (IFSS) in response to the protection of natural resources
Recovery of prioritized depleted fish stocks will be achieved through Recovery plans and a research report will be produced to indicate the levels of stock
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27. Planned Policy and Programme Initiatives
The Integrated Growth and Development Plan (IGDP) for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries : developed in response to the policy requirements of Outcomes 4 and 7 that relate to job creation, rural development and food security.
APAP: The high-level responses offered in the IGDP have been translated into the new APAP, serving as the implementation arm of the IGDP. The encompassing objectives of APAP are to promote labour absorption and broaden market participation, strategic interventions aimed at increasing value-chain efficiencies and competitiveness, focusing on selected subsectors/value chains.
The Integrated Food and Nutrition Security Policy
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28. Staff Establishment Personnel post status as at 1 January 2014
Levels
Number of posts
on approved
Establishment
Number of funded
posts
Additional to the
establishment
Department
6 965 63
Salary levels
1-6
4 135 40
7-10
2 237 4
11-12
465 11
13-16
128 8
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29. BUDGET
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30. Per Programme CONFIDENTIAL Programme 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18
R’ R’ R’ R’000
Administration
Agricultural production,
health & food safety
Food security & agrarian
reform
Economic development,
trade & marketing
Forestry & natural
resources management
Fisheries management
TOTAL
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31. Per Economic Classification
2014/ / / / R’ R’ R’ R’000
Compensation of
employees
Goods and services
Interest and rent on land
Payments for financial
assets
Transfers and subsidies
Payments for capital
assets
TOTAL
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32. Detail per programme 1 - Administration
2014/ / / /18 R’000 R’000 R’000 R’000 Ministry Department Management Financial Administration Internal Audit Corporate Services Stakeholder Relations, Communication & Legal Services Policy, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Office Accommodation Total
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33. Programme 1 – Per economic classification
2014/ / / /18 R’000 R’000 R’000 R’000 Compensation of employees Goods and services Interest and rent on land Transfers & subsidies Payment for capital assets Payment for financial assets Total
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34. Detail per programme 2 – Agricultural Production, Health and Food Safety
2014/ / / /18 R’000 R’000 R’000 R’000 Management Inspection & Laboratory Services Plant Production & Health Animal Production and Health Agricultural Research Total
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35. Programme 2 – Per economic classification
2014/ / / /18 R’000 R’000 R’000 R’000 Compensation of employees Goods and services Interest and rent on land Transfers & subsidies Payment for capital assets Payment for financial assets Total
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36. Detail per programme 3 – Food Security and Agrarian Reform
2014/ / / /18 R’000 R’000 R’000 R’000 Management Food Security Sector Capacity Development National Extension Support Services Total
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37. Programme 3 – Per economic classification
2014/ / / /18 R’000 R’000 R’000 R’000 Compensation of employees Goods and services Interest and rent on land Transfers & subsidies Payment for capital assets Payment for financial assets Total
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38. Detail per programme 4 – Economic Development, Trade and Marketing
2014/ / / /18 R’000 R’000 R’000 R’000 Management International Relations & Trade Cooperatives & Rural Business Development Agro-Processing & Marketing Total
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39. Programme 4 – Per economic classification
2014/ / / /18 R’000 R’000 R’000 R’000 Compensation of employees Goods and services Interest and rent on land Transfers & subsidies Payment for capital assets Payment for financial assets Total
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40. Detail per programme 5 – Forestry and Natural Resources Management
2014/ / / /18 R’000 R’000 R’000 R’000 Management Forestry Operations Forestry Regulations & Oversight Natural Resources Management Total
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41. Programme 5 – Per economic classification
2014/ / / /18 R’000 R’000 R’000 R’000 Compensation of employees Goods and services Interest and rent on land Transfers & subsidies Payment for capital assets Payment for financial assets Total
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42. Detail per programme 6 – Fisheries
2014/ / / /18 R’000 R’000 R’000 R’000 Management Aquaculture Monitoring Control and Surveillance Marine Resources Management Fisheries Research & Development Marine Living Resources Fund Total
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43. Programme 6 – Per economic classification
2014/ / / /18 R’000 R’000 R’000 R’000 Compensation of employees Transfers & subsidies Total
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44. That the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries
Recommendations
That the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries
Recommends the DAFF’s 2014/ /19 Strategic Plan to Parliament;
Sustains its support for the long-term sustainability of the DAFF such that the organisation can maintain and accelerate its distinctive role in delivering on its mandate in the most marginalised communities on behalf of government.
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45. Thank you !!!