Title: HSRC presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Science and Technology
1HSRC presentation to thePortfolio Committee on
Scienceand Technology
2Overview of the HSRC
3What we do vision and mission
- The HSRC
- does "social science research that makes a
difference" - Contributes to the evidence and analysis basis of
transformation - The HSRC
- supports development nationally, in the region
and in Africa - by conducting applied social-scientific research
projects and co-ordinating research programmes
that are - collaborative
- policy-relevant
- user-driven
- often large-scale
- primarily public sector-oriented
4HSRC Act, No. 23 of 1968
- The Council (strictly, the ten members and CEO)
is established by this Act and some regulations - The Act provides a broad list of functions,
including to - conduct, co-ordinate, foster and disseminate
applied social science of public benefit - collaborate with departments and tertiary
institutions - advise the Minister in these respects
- undertake commissioned work, for which it may
charge fees - The act needs updating e.g. on public services as
provided by the Institutional Review Report - This process is presently underway
5Thumbnail stats HSRC 2004
- Staffing as at March 2004 (60 black, 53 female)
- 155 researchers, spread across five centres, 92
with Masters or PhD, 67 published in a refereed
journal this year - 39 interns, mostly doing Masters, some PhD
- 112 support services staff
- Projected earnings from grants (half
international) and tenders of R140m in 04/05 now
exceed R82m Parliamentary grant - 250 projects, nearly two-thirds conducted
collaboratively - Project collaborations in 30 other African
countries - "Blue chip" list of users especially in national,
provincial and local government and public
entities - Some 350 outputs in year ending March 04, many
disseminated free on the web and widely
publicised in the media 115 journal articles
6NewHSRC CouncilPMG note photographs not
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7HSRC organisational structure
8Executive Directors
Assessment Technology and Education Evaluation
ATEE
Knowledge Management
KM
Child, Youth and Family Development
CYFD
Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health
SAHA
Democracy and Governance
DG
Surveys, Analyses, Modelling and Mapping
SAMM
Employment and Economic Policy Research
EEPR
Social Cohesion and Identity
SCI
Human Resources Development
HRD
Integrated Rural and Regional Development
IRRD
Office of the CEO
Corporate
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9Civil society grants/earnings
What the HSRC is / isn't
NGO
Consultancy
User-drivenresearch agenda
Autonomousresearch agenda
HSRC
University
Department
Statutory Government funds
10Research aspects
11Alignment with National and DST priorities
- Macro level
- Alignment with national development and
poverty-reduction imperatives established by the
government and its departments at various levels - Meso level
- Contributing to the "missions" of the national
RD strategy, e.g. SATPOR, resource-based
technology - Micro level
- Addressing information needs for
policy-formulation and monitoring of DST e.g.
CeSTII
12Impact to make a difference
ATEE TIMSS contributed to extra salaries for Maths and Science teachers and proposed ten-fold increase in Dinaledi Maths schools
CYFD Disability assessment tool adopted by Department of Social Development
DG State of the Nation 2004/05 book widely reviewed and sold
EEPR Leveraging services for growth, employment and equity for Services Sector presented to consecutive Cabinet Lekgotlas
HRD Research for DPSA on public-sector skills and training needs informed Cabinet Lekgotla and State of the Nation address
IRRD Research profile of homeless people at HSRC informed establishment of first Tshwane overnight shelter
KM Work from RD survey and CeSTII guiding DST strategy implementation
SAHA Study on nosocomial risk factors for HIV among children in the Free State prompted national investigation by DoH
SAMM Eight government departments signed up for longitudinal survey studies of service delivery
SCI Safety training support for petrol attendants inspired by HSRC publication In terror and in silence led to fewer attacks and death
13CeSTII
- Support from DST to establish Centre for Science
and Technology Innovation Indicators (CeSTII) - To become the indicator generation and
interpretation hub of a local, regional and
international network of excellence - Outputs by end of first year
- Survey of Inputs into Research and Experimental
Development 2001/02 - released by Minister in January 2004
- Seeking official statistics status and OECD
accreditation - Feasibility and design study for the Innovation
Survey 2005 - Capacity and infrastructure development
- Collaboration and publications
14SATPOR
- Science and Technology for Poverty Reduction
- Funded by DST, involving HSRC, CSIR and
University of Fort Hare - Collaborators include HBUs, NGOs, other science
councils - Four sectors Agriculture ? Small-scale mining ?
Health ? Energy - Preliminary findings and recommendations
- Existing batch of technology transfer projects
too small to have a meaningful impact on South
Africas poverty - Too many projects have a technology transfer
strategy that is out of sync with the resources
and needs of the country - Pursue further engagement with government
departments to assist in formulating
evidence-based technology transfer strategies - Other poverty-related areas requiring more
research - Barriers to engaging in productive activity
- Fine-tuning social protection
15HRD
- Ring-fenced funding from DST for three years
- Supporting strategic planning for national Human
Resources Development - Collaboration with national and international
research experts - Major achievements
- Integrated, web-enabled data warehouse accessible
by users - Peer-reviewed publications Biennial HRD Review
books journal articles - Media awareness
- R1 additional funding leveraged for every R1 of
ring-fenced funding - Informing HRD planning for SETAs, provinces
- Current research relevant to DST
- New science and industrial policies
- Implications of new knowledge and innovation
requirements on the education and training system - Developing analytical models to enable matching
of demand- and supply-side perspectives
16HIV/AIDS
- HSRC and partners committed to making a
difference - First representative national survey
forecasting models government planning model
for replication in SADC - SAHARA Africa-wide network of excellence
source of research funding grown from external
donor funds - Orphans and vulnerable children in 3, now 6
countries - Study of impact of HIV/AIDS on educators
- Research across the HSRC
- HIV/AIDS, poverty and land
- Skills forecasting developing new models
- Stigma human rights
- Mother-to-child transmission
- Risky behaviour community-based support
17Africa
18Project-specific examples across Africa
ATEE UNESCO resource in 13 countries Maths science education
CYFD Child development in Tanzania and Kenya ICT and curriculum in SADC schools HIV community mobilisation, testing and support
DG Peace (and role of women) in Burundi elections in Lesotho
EEPR Skills projections for Ethiopia SA trade expansion into Africa
HRD SADC Vocational Education Training Student mobility in HET
IRRD Regional resource flows (trade, migration) land SARPN (poverty)
KM ST Indicators, migration
SAHA AIDS prevalence study technical resource Orphans and Vulnerable Children health policies in 6 countries SAHARA
SAMM GIS and development in SADC- NEPAD urban renewal initiative
SCI African human genome initiative
19Indicative deployment of Parliamentary grant
Project
ATEE Monitoring education quality in South Africa (MONITEQ)
CYFD Birth to twenty - child development
DG Governance indicators
EEPR HIV/AIDS challenges to nurses
HRD Student retention and graduate destinations
IRRD Place-related expectations and migration in South Africa
KM Centre for science, technology and innovation indicators (CeSTII)
SAHA International institute on gender and HIV / AIDS
SAMM South African social attitudes survey (SASAS)
SCI Genome school curriculum programme
Cross-cutting Professional research development
Cross-cutting Gender studies unit
Cross-cutting Disability studies unit
20Parliamentary Grant within programmes 2004/05
estimate
21Gender based research
- Champion for gender equity and ensuring
transformation - Gender audit of practices at HSRC
- Gender reference group established
- Seminar series on gender
- MOUs with NPA, NRA, etc.
- Research projects
- Gender and transport
- Perceptions of masculinity
- Five year longitudinal study of women in SET
22Social Cohesion and Identity (1)
- Social Cohesion and Leadership
- Historical examination of African leadership
- Biographical writings on leaders
- Intellectual foundations of political ideas
- South African identity and its meanings
- Race, culture and identity
- Identity and public policy
- Black Economic Empowerment
- Business and social values in a comparative
perspective - History and contemporary relevance of black
business - Identity, Africa the World Lecture Series
- Conversations on African Identity by
distinguished scholars
23Social Cohesion and Identity (2)
- Afican Genome Programme
- Third international conference on impact of
genomics in Africa to be held in Narobi in March - Afican Genome Education Initiative established
with HSRC support - Hand over from HSRC on 1 April
- Social Capital
- Understanding and strengthening social networks
- Media
- Improving media access and diversity
- Impact of cellular technology
- Improving the quality of South African media
24Organisational aspects
25COUPE strategy and sentinel measures
Balanced scorecard perspective COUPE strategy key performance indicator and sentinel measures 2000/01 baseline 2003/04 achieve-ment 2005/06 target 2009/10 target
Financial investment Contracts and earnings External research earnings as a percentage of total research income 21 62 58 50
Stakeholder/ customer Outreach Percentage of projects with external participation 22 62 55 66
Users Percentage of successful competitive tenders 24 40 33 33
HR trans-formation Performance Equity Percentage of black researchers (incl. interns) 40 51 60 55 60
Organisa-tional Performance Efficiency Percentage of researchers in total staff 30 58 60 60
Innovation learning Excellence Number of refereed journal articles per researcher 0.23 0.67 0.75 0.85
26Major organisational transformations
- Restructuring admin to 40 of staff complement
- Integrated conditions of employment
- Staff development framework and internship
programme - HIV/AIDS wellness and ARV programme
- Modern digital processes
- Electronic publishing ? Countrywide
videoconference and network connectivity ?
Intranet ? Virtual library - Updated financial and other policies
- Incremental modernising of IT infrastructure
- Social responsibility (Homeless on our
doorstep)
27HSRC Broad representivity trends from 1998 to 2004
28Black employees in employment levels, 2001/02 to
2003/04
29Female employees in employment levels, 2001/02 to
2003/04
30Improvement on disability representation
- Within approximately 250 employees, the number of
people with disabilities has increased from 2 to
4 in 2004/05
31Institutional Review 2003
- The HSRC showed itself to be a robust and
forward-looking organisation, eager to use the
Review as a vehicle for serious self-examination
and, where necessary, repositioning - (Preface p. 3)
- We conclude that the HSRC of 2003 is a
different and much better organisation in
important respects than the HSRC of 1997. It has
earned the respect given to it by the bulk of its
stakeholders and collaborators by the breadth,
quality and relevance of its contributions to the
study and practice of social development in South
Africa - (Preface p.4)
32ReviewMain recommendations
- Becoming a platform for institutional
collaboration and networking in South Africa and
across the continent - Deepening the transformation
- gender and race, representivity at senior levels
- research needs of poor communities
- Multimedia communication of research findings to
public at large - Strengthening support services and systems
- Formulation of public purposes of HSRC, for new
Act - Considering data preservation and Intellectual
Property
33Task teams
- Research quality, impact and implementation
- Balance between scholarly and earnings work
- Gender, race and disability
- Communicating research findings
- NEPAD Africa outreach
- SATPOR Technology transfer for poverty
reduction - Relationships (especially HEIs)
- Networks (with collaborators and stakeholders
access by marginalised communities) - Systems development
- Professional development
- Project management
- New legislation for the HSRC
- Intellectual Property
34Professional development
35Proportions of researchers (excluding interns)
with Masters and Doctorates
36Research Interns
- Total of 40 interns benefited from research
training at the HSRC in 2003/04 - Two-thirds of the interns are female
- All of the interns are black (23 African, 11
Coloured, 5 Indian) - The majority are pursuing masters studies, some
are pursuing doctorates and a few are not
registered for further studies
37Research Interns are trained in national priority
areas
Assessment Technology and Education Evaluation
Knowledge Management
Surveys, Analyses Modelling and Mapping
Child, Youth and Family Development
Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health
38Financial aspects
39HSRC research earnings over time (shown in
nominal rands)
Excluding CSD, building grant and ring-fenced
funding
40MTEF main requests
- Integrated management information system (R19m
in 2005/06) - PLUS
- Research activities (R19m), in collaboration with
other science councils - Implementation-oriented research on poverty and
technology transfer for poverty reduction (R4m), - Resource-Based Technology Clusters (RBTC) (R6m),
- Corporate involvement and population migration in
Africa (R5m), - HRD and skills (R4m)
- PLUS
- Further research activities (R8m)
- Social protection initiatives (R6m),
- Studying the evolution of technological change
(R2m)
41Proposed performance-related three-year MTEF
scenario
2005/06 R million 2006/07 R million 2007/08 R million
Proposed MTEF Parliamentary grant, including ring-fenced 88 107 100 566 105 594
Integrated management system 19 000 3 000 4 000
Plus research activities national priorities 19 000 20 000 18 000
Plus research activities optimising and anticipating impact 8 000 8 000 8 000
Total Parliamentary Grant 134 107 131 566 135 594
42Budget of income and expenditure
43HSRC income and expenditure from 2002/03 to
2004/05
44Allocation of Parliamentary grant across research
programmes for 2004/05 and 2005/06
45Fresh challenges
- Succession sequence for new CEO, August 2005
- Process for new HSRC Act - workshop
- Change from Section 3A to 3B Public Entity plus
shareholder compact - Creatively balancing inherent tensions e.g.
proportions of parliamentary grant and contract
income - Focus on changing developmental challenges
46PMG note photographs not included
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