part a: strategic overview - Department of Education

14. EVALUATION OF CURRENT IMPLEMENTATION PERFORMANCE
This is the first year that the Department has prepared a comprehensive strategic plan in line
with the national guidelines. For 2003/04 the strategic plan was more focused on operational
planning issues, which tended to provide too much detail, although that was required in the
guideline at the time.
Progress is therefore being made in the approach to strategic planning, which has also been
integrated more effectively into the operational planning processes. Accordingly the whole
approach to planning and the consequent compulsory quarterly and monthly reporting has
become more focused. This and the creation of a Chief Directorate: Strategic Management
Monitoring and Evaluation is expected to assist the Department in monitoring its performance
better than in the past.
15. ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION AND THE INSTITUTIONAL
ENVIRONMENT
15.1. Organizational Design
The Department consists of a Head Office, which is responsible for operational policy,
monitoring and evaluation, and twenty four districts that are responsible for all services to
learners, educators, schools and local communities. The district boundaries are shown in map
5 below.
On the next page after the map, figure 1 shows the top level organogram of the Department
as approved by the MEC in August 2004. This is followed by a table setting out the names of
the managers against their job titles.
A new organogram has been designed with support from the IMET and is currently being
discussed within the department. It is likely to be implemented in April 2006 at the start of the
new financial year. The new organogram places a strong emphasis on clear definition of
strategic, business and implementation responsibilities between the different levels of
management and on clear linkage between head office and district in each functional area.
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part C: background information