Chapter 2 - P rogramme 1 - Department of Defence

| Chapter 2 - Programme 1: Administration |
Annual Report FY 2007 - 2008
| Department of Defence |
Table 2.5 Policy and Planning Outputs for FY 2007/08 (continued)
Output Performance Measure Target Actual Achievement
Defence Policy Finalisation of the
review on defence policy
to meet the changing
demands of the defence
landscape
To ensure that the review of the
defence policy is conducted and
finalised
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Developed and promulgated policy
on assigned issues. This was
undertaken through the compilation
and submission of papers that
were approved by the DOD and
consolidated into SA policy positions.
Submission of the interpreted and
disseminated information in respect
of defence policy to identified clients.
This was undertaken in the form of
positions, options and comments on
publications and the presentation of
DOD position on issues identified by
the clients.
The Division has principally ensured
the realisation of the Minister’s
priorities issued in September 2005 for
2007/08, which were as follows:
• Ensuring that the DOD complies
with national legislation and
Government regulations and the
ensuing imperatives;
• Providing capacity for the
Secretary for Defence and the
Chief of the South African
National Defence Force to
discharge their statutory
responsibilities;
• Providing a Parliamentary
oversight role to intensify more
intrusive measures to ensure civil
control; and
• Ensuring that departmental
governance and accountability is
institutionalised and improved.
The Division has conducted staff
visits to outlying units in the Limpopo,
KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape
provinces as part of the policy
process. It was confirmed that the
DOD policy website is functioning as
effectively technically at the remote
units as it does in the Pretoria area. It
was, however, found that competency
of users in the use of the policy
website needed attention and SITA
was commissioned to develop and
present training courses to rectify
this shortcoming. Subsequently,
courses to train instructors were held
in Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal and
Gauteng, where a core of 118 trainers
has graduated. This programme will
be continued throughout the country
until sufficient trainers have qualified
to successfully address the problem of
user competency to effectively utilise
the policy website.