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State of Judiciary 2011-2012
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6.2.2 Establishing the Judiciary Fund and Improving Public Financial
Management and Overall Value for Money
The second key challenge facing the Judiciary going into the
2011/12 year was two-fold: first, to operationalise the Judiciary Fund,
and second, to strengthen its overall public financial management
(PFM) system along the lines of the recommendations contained
in the earlier-mentioned Report of the Task Force on Judicial Ethics
and Governance, but equally reflective of the Judiciary’s new
constitutionally and publicly mandated transformation context.
6.2.3 The Year 2011/12 Context in Summary
As with many other facets of the Judiciary’s work, 2011/12 began
within a mixed context of opportunity, and great challenges that
needed to be settled.
6.3 Medium-Term Agenda for Change
In the medium-term, improved finance and resource development
within the Judiciary is envisaged under the Judiciary Transformation
Framework 2012-2016 to encompass the strategic agenda
secure adequate infrastructure and sufficient resourcing. The key
result areas for this are obtaining resources and value for money
by establishing a sound and robust Judiciary Public Financial
Management framework built around the Judiciary Fund. It also
requires mobilising internal and external resources for the successful
implementation of the JTF and ensuring the achievement of valuefor-money
in the use of all its resources.