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Estimates of the Provincial Revenue and Expenditure (EPRE) 2023/24 Financial Year
forging a disciplined, people-centred and professional public service through public sector transformation

programmes; empowering citizens to play a greater role in development through stakeholder and
community engagement programmes; and intensifying the fight against corruption.

2. Review of the current financial year (2022/23)

2.1Key achievements

The department continued with its efforts towards realisation of the provincial call for recovery and

enhancing sustainability. These efforts were guided by the three set cardinal points namely: generating
value from own resources through co-ordinating performance management in the provincial
administration; leveraging resources through harnessing investment by global partners, national

departments and state owned entities to achieve province’s development objectives; as well as leading
development through building an agile state. These continued to be mainly driven through:

The department continued to support Intergovernmental Relations structures as planned in order to

improve integration. The District Development Model (One District Plan) was adopted by government as
a means to strengthen collaboration and integration amongst the various sectors of government. OTP has
ensured, that all One Plans completed were assessed by National Quality Assurance Panel led by the

national Department Local Government and Traditional Affairs. Gaps identified in this review process are
being addressed through a multi-disciplinary teams led by the CoGTA with the support of the OTP. OTP
resolved to revise the content of discussions in all Inter Governmental Relations (IGR) forum. To this end,

progress on the implementation of key projects in the province were to be considered in platforms that
brought various stakeholders together.

In the 2022/23, OTP committed to the development of 7 shared services in the provincial government. The

aim of which is to curb inefficiencies by consolidating corporate services that are duplicated across all
provincial department. In long term the project will have effect of reducing Compensation of Employees
(CoE) as well getting the province to be effective in discharging these function. As at the December 2022,

the department successfully established 6 which are: Organisational Design and Job Evaluations;
Operations Management Framework and Organisational Functionality Assessments; Change
Management; Leadership development; Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as well as

Communications.

The department is continuing with facilitation of empowerment programmes for designated groups. By the
end of the third quarter only 15.7 per cent of procurement spent had gone to women owned enterprises

(against a target of 40 per cent); 0.08 per cent towards people with disability owned enterprises (against
a target of 7 per cent) and 8 per cent of procurement going towards youth owned enterprises (against a

target of 30 per cent). Lack of capacity of enterprises is the major reason why these targets may not be
met by the end of the financial year. Concerted efforts on the part of the Provincial Treasury, Department

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