Allocative efficacy through budget preparations, infrastructure budgeting, expenditure monitoring economic analysis and fiscal policy to all provincial departments, public entities and management of financial assets and liabilities.

• Provide strategic leadership in implementing strategies to ensure the programme’s contribution in realising departmental objectivess
• Determines and evaluates economic parameters and socio-economic imperatives within a provincial and macro-economic context.
• Promotes optimal financial resource allocation and enables government to finance its service delivery obligations, and promotes sound planning, budgeting, financial management and reporting in public entities and provincial departments.
• Promotes effective optimal resource allocation; manages fiscal assets, optimises liquidity requirements and returns on financial investments and maximises the latter within acceptable levels of risk.

This programme has the following sub-programmes

• Budget and Public Finance Management (Education, DSRAC, Safety and Governance and Administration cluster)
• Budget and Public Finance Management (Health, Social Development and Economic Cluster)
• Economic and Fiscal Policy Oversight
• Infrastructure Budget Performance and Monitoring