1. Infrastructure: South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity
Highlights:
Host – SAEON Coastal and Inshore Node
Construction of off-site fish collection facility
ACEP

2. Infrastructure: South African Environmental Observatory Network
Highlights:
CSIR geospatial portal
Graduate student network
Policy inputs:
Grasslands
Arid zone ecology
SEACHANGE: Marine research
Observation, Information, Education

3. Infrastructure: National Zoological Gardens
Highlights:
Strategic planning
Successful migration of wBRC and BioBank SA
UCT Tissue Bank custodian
Terrestrial biodiversity

4. Infrastructure: iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences
Highlights :
Primary supplier of radioisotopes for the Western Cape Region for both state and private clinics
MRMC
Schonland: now iThemba LABS Gauteng
Nuclear science and radiation medicine

5. NRF Actual Sources of Funding

6. Target Income vs Actual Income

7. Income vs Expenditure for 2006

8. Research Grant Funding

9. Key Outcomes
Compliance in terms of PFMA
Compliance in terms of GRAP / GAAP / IFRS
Unqualified audit report
Endorsement and application of Corporate Governance Principles as per King II
Cashflow reduction of R115m
Improved efficiency  in Agency Business = salary 2%, running  no change and grants  33%

10. Main Challenges
Funding of the Post Retirement Healthcare Benefit in terms of IAS19 (AC116) = R84 million unfunded
NRF R72m
NZG R12m
Book entry passed resulting in accumulated deficit of R56m
Governance structure for the Innovation Fund following dissolution of the Innovation Fund Trust pending
Growth and ramp up of SKA / SALT
Pressure on baseline funding
New funding requirements for renewal of existing infrastructure (SAAO, iTHEMBA LABS, SAIAB)

11. THANK YOU