Draft: Strategic Plan for the Select Committees on Economic Development for the 2011/12 financial year National Council of Provinces

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DraftStrategic Plan for the Select Committees
on Economic Development for the 2011/12 financial
yearNational Council of Provinces

• By
• Mkhethwa MKHIZE
• Unit Manager Committee Support Services

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Preamble

• The National Council of Provinces was created to
  represent the provincial interest in the national
  Parliament.
• This is important in order to
• ensure that provincial interest is considered in
  the national sphere of Government
• pass legislation
• process international agreements and
• scrutinise and oversee Executives actions.

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Why? Vision of Parliament

• To build an effective peoples Parliament that is
  responsive to the needs of the people within and
  that is driven by the ideal realising of a better
  life for all the people of South Africa.

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How? Mission Statement of Parliament

• To build an oversight process of scrutinising and
  overseeing governments action, and that is
  driven by the ideal of realising a better life
  for all the people of South Africa.
• To process legislation
• To international agreements and
• To facilitate public participation and
  involvement.

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Value Statement

• In order to achieve the vision and support the
  mission of Parliament, the Select Committee on
  Economic Development (the Committee) discharges
  its responsibilities professionally and with
  humility, and adhere to the highest standards of
  Parliamentary committees.

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Value Statement continues

• The Committee subscribes to the following values
• Integrity
• Accountability
• Commitment
• Transparency
• Fairness
• Empowerment and
• Creativity.

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Legislative Mandate

• In order to ensure efficacy of service delivery,
  the Select Committee on Economic Development
  focuses on national and intergovernmental core
  issues, such as
• Economic development
• Energy
• Mining and Mineral Resources
• Creation of employment and
• Development of rural communities.
• In doing the above, the Committee is guided,
  among others, by the Constitution, the Public
  Finance Management Act, the Money Bills Amendment
  Procedure and Related Matters Act, Rules of
  Parliament, the State-of-the-Nation Address and
  other legislations.

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Legislative Mandate continues

• The Committee, as an extension of the National
  Council of Provinces, regards active
  collaboration with, among others, the Departments
  of Economic Development, Energy and Mineral
  Resources, and their state-owned entities, as
  vital.
• The Committee aims to maintain strong
  collaboration with other Parliamentary
  committees, afore-mentioned stakeholders and,
  provincial departments and municipalities.

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Core Functions of the Committee

• Considers and reports on legislation (section 75
  and 76) that are referred to it
• Exercises oversight on government departments,
  its entities, and municipalities actions
• Considers and reports on international
  agreements and
• Facilitates public participation and involvement
  (section 72).

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Key Priority Areas (KPAs) Legislation

• To process the amendments of legislations like
  the following
• The Competition Act
• Merger-related legislation
• The Diamonds Act
• The Precious Metals Act etc.

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Key Priority Areas (KPAs) Legislation continues

• To further process the amendments of legislations
  like the following
• National Energy Regulator Act, 2004
• Electricity Regulation Act, 2006
• Petroleum products Act, 1997
• Gas Act, 2001 and
• The Independent Systems Market Operations Bill
  (new legislation).

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KPAs continue EDD

• To monitor the establishment and the functioning
  of the merged Entities of Khula, Samaf and IDC
  small business operations.
• To public hearings on the to-be Merged entity
  before it is fully established in March 2011
  focusing on efficiency and effectiveness of it.
  Its draft business plan.
• To monitor the implementation of the New Growth
  Path.
• To monitor the alignment of the PGDS and the New
  Growth Path.

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KPAs continue EDD continues

• To monitor the establishment and functioning of
  the Economic Development Institute.
• To conduct oversight to provinces that are
  assisted by EDD on training and skills
  development.

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KPAs continue Samaf

• To conduct oversight to rural areas that are
  financed by samaf through the stokvels model and
  focusing on job creation.

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KPAs continue Councils

• To analyse the funding models of the Councils for
  Mineral Technology and GeoScience and make
  recommendations to the Committees responsible for
  processing the 2011 Adjustments Appropriation
  Bill and 2012 Appropriation Bill as required by
  the Money Bills Amendment Procedure and Related
  Matters Act.
• To monitor the progress made by Mintek and CGS in
  effecting bursaries for tertiary education.

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KPAs continue Mintek

• To conduct oversight on 25 projects of Mintek
  that are based in rural areas.

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KPAs continue Mining

• To monitor the promotion of sustainable
  development in mining focusing on, amongst
  others, ownerless and derelict mines, acid mine
  drainage, and mine health and safety.

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KPAs continue Dept. of Energy

• To analyse the performance of the Dept. in terms
  of the folllowing national government outcomes
• Outcome 2
• Outcome 4
• Outcome 6
• Outcome 8 and
• Outcome 10.

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KPAs continue Dept. of Energy continues

• To conduct oversight on the connection of
  households through the grid and non-grid
  programmes.
• To conduct oversight the building of the
  substations in provinces.
• To conduct oversight on two Integrated Energy
  Centres (IeC) which would provide access energy
  services to the rural communities.

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KPAs continue Dept. of Energy continues

• To conduct oversight on energy efficiency
  initiatives.
• To conduct oversight on the Solar Heater projects
  in rural areas.

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KPAs continue Dept. of Energy continues

• To monitor the development of the biofuels
  pricing framework.
• To monitor the performance of the Dept. in terms
  of creating 5,000 jobs focusing on jobs created
  for the youth.
• To monitor the performance of the Dept. in terms
  on its energy efficiency initiatives.

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KPAs continue Dept. of Energy continues

• To conduct public hearings on the Liquids Fuels
  Charter (LFC).
• To conduct public hearings on the challenges of
  the Gas Act with regards to the Compressed
  Natural Gas (CNG).

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KPAs continue Dept. of Energy continues

• To analyse the funding model of the Nuclear
  Energy Council of South Africa (Necsa) and make
  recommendations to Committees responsible for
  processing the 2011 Adjustments Appropriation
  Bill and 2012 Appropriation Bill as required by
  the Money Bills Amendment Procedure and Related
  Matters Act.

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KPAs continue other entities

• To monitor the performance of state-owned
  entities reporting to the Departments of Economic
  Development, Energy and Mineral Resources.

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KPAs continue Comprehensive strategy

• To conduct a workshop on entities that specialise
  in technical companies to identify common
  strengths and challenges facing these entities.
• Monitoring and evaluating progress on service
  provision, and collaboration and co-ordination
  with sector/provincial departments and
  municipalities.
• Exercising oversight role on governments at
  various spheres of government, mainly provincial
  and local spheres.

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KPAs continue Capacity Building

• To conduct an international study tours on
  economic development and energy issues. Ideal
  country on energy issues is France (refer to
  Necsas presentation) and, on economic
  development, is China.

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Plan of action for the 2011/12 financial year e.g.
Activity Objective Target date(s)
Hearings on performance of identified departments at the provincial level. To monitor the performance by identified departments at provincial level, focusing on collaboration and co-ordination pertaining to the provision of services. Quarterly (and when necessary).
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Plan of action for the 2011/12 financial year
Activity Objective Target date(s)
Oversight visits to different provinces. This to include follow-up visits on previous oversight visits. To assess service delivery in provinces. Also to feed PCs on Economic Development, Energy and Mineral Resources responsible for the BRRR. At least, every quarter.
To analyse (also, in collaboration with other committees within Parliament) the performance of identified departments through briefings in Parliament. To assess service delivery in provinces. Also to feed PCs on Economic Development, Energy and Mineral Resources responsible for the BRRR. When necessary
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Oversight Tool

• The Committee intends to record oversight visits
  as follows

Date Purpose Activity Members Place Key findings Planned action

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Issue-Tracking Tool

• The Committee intends to monitor implementation
  of its recommendations using the issue-tracking
  tool. This tool have the following attributes

Identification of issue or matter to be tracked
Name of member/s responsible for tracking issue
Content -resolution taken on issue
Date of tabling and adoption
Date referral of the department
Envisaged date of response
Actual date of response
Action taken
Number of reports in which the resolution is contained
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