Chapter 2 - P rogramme 1 - Department of Defence

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Activities
Capacity building and
competency enhancement
of relevant roleplayers
Improve the DOD’s
strategic management
capacity
DOD human resources
planning
Annual Report FY 2007 - 2008
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Table 2.6 Policy and Planning Performance and Service Delivery Improvement Details for
FY 2007/08 (continued)
Policy Development
Legislative Changes
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Planned Management
Interventions
Anticipated Benefit Status
Savings will be effected Managed to render foreign relations policy
advice to the Department; drafted,
negotiated and concluded bilateral and
multilateral Defence Agreements with other
States. The Division has also managed the
external relations of the DOD during the
period under review.
Continuation of Improved planning and Initiated.
benchmarking with best management expertise
practice and adjusting the
approach where required
and better reporting
Enhance PERSOL An information system Initiated.
through Project
LEGADIMA
that enables planning
Prohibition of Mercenary Activities and
Regulation of Certain Activities in a
Country of Armed Conflict Act, 2006 (Act
No. 27 of 2006)
This Act was signed into law by the State
President in December 2007. This Act will
not be in operation until such time that its
Regulations Act is promulgated. The process
for the drafting and promulgation of these
regulations will commence in FY 2009/10.
Mercenaries and Foreign Military
Assistance
Proposed changes to legislation dealing with
mercenaries and the regulation of foreign
military assistance in areas of armed conflict
may impact on DOD intelligence and manpower
resources in providing assistance with the vetting
or scrutiny of permit applications by individuals
during the departmental review process of
the NCACC. Pressure from the public and
diplomatic sectors may mount for the DOD to
participate in finding solutions to contentious
issues that the current draft legislation seeks to
address.
Amendment to the National Conventional
Arms Control Act, 2002 (Act No. 41 of
2002)
In the period under review, amendment
proposals were made to the said Act. These
amendment proposals have been reduced to a
Bill. This Bill has been approved by the NCACC
and certified by the State Law Advisor, and it has
since been submitted to Cabinet for approval
before it could be introduced to Parliament.
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SUBPROGRAMME FINANCIAL SERVICES
Overview
The Financial Services successfully focused its efforts
on the continuous improvement of the service
delivery model and has entered the fourth phase of
a long-term strategy for the financial management
of the Department. Of utmost significance is the
fact that the Financial Management Division was
re-engineered for cost-effective operationalisation
of service delivery as a second phase, and also
that the public finance regulatory framework was
implemented in the Division within the constraints
of the existing legacy information systems. The
Government’s overarching goal of providing “a
better life for all” informed all the interventions
of the Department. It is for this reason that the
Financial Management Division places highest on
its agenda the development of mechanisms that
ensure accelerated and sustainable growth and
development in the country, through the following
projects run within the Finance Division:
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The scope of implementation of the public
financial management framework to be
broadened to other functions affected by public
financial management, such as personnel,
matériel and information management. The
initiatives include ensuring promulgation of
legally enforceable instructions, implementing
an integrated financial management information
system supporting generally recognised
accounting practices and related standards,
building departmental capacity and reinforcing
accountability arrangements.
In an attempt to improve financial management
within the SA National Defence Force (SANDF),
the Minister of Defence directed that the Chief