part a: strategic overview - Department of Education

SUB-PROGRAMME:
- Purpose
- Transformational Focus
purveyor of skills so that this
Agenda could be met.
SUB-PROGRAMME 2.5
In-school Sport and Culture
Purpose:
To provide additional and
departmentally managed sporting
and cultural activities in public
ordinary schools
POLICIES AND PRIORITIES
HRD within the National and
Provincial Skills Development
Agenda�
� Contextualization of the role of
HRD within the plans and
developments of the DoE as a
whole.�
� Train and support line managers
to meet the Department’s
objectives through the strategic
use of HRD Services�
� Create a more focused and
cohesive delivery structure for
HRD in the Department�
� Establish and sustain linkages
between HRD, performance
management and the productivity
of staff�
� Specify critical areas of training
and development that should be
undertaken in the Department in
order to advance the welfare of
staff and create capacity to
accelerate service delivery
improvement�
� Establish proper monitoring and
evaluation strategies in HRD so
that the impact of training could be
assessed on an ongoing basis�
OVERVIEW OF CHALLENGES
AND CONSTRAINTS
SUB-PROGRAMME 2.6
Conditional Grants (SNP) The main legislation and policy � Inflexible menu�
Purpose:
To provide for projects under
instruments which are applicable to
the School Nutrition Programme
are as follows:
� Lack of integration with local
government initiatives�
� Staffing Shortage as many
programme 2 specified by the
Department of Education and
funded by conditional grants
� Constitution of the Republic of
South Africa (Act No 108 of 1996)�
vacancies in Districts have not
been filled �
� Unavailability of locally produced
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