Assessment of Needs and Capacity of District Office Professional Staff

AN ANALYSIS OF ISSUES AND GAPS IN SCHOOL OPERATIONS
FINANCE
CATEGORIES
ISSUES & PERCEPTIONS FROM THE
SCHOOL
ISSUES AND PERCEPTIONS FROM THE
DISTRICT OFFICE
• Few treasurers are trained and training must • All principals should be capacitated in
be conducted after every election
money matters
• Arrange financial management training & • All SGB's should be capacitated in money
monitoring by EDO's
matters
• Parent treasurers are illiterate & cannot avail • Lack of financial skills on part of subject
themselves
advisors
• Training of SGB's on financial matters • Subject advisors not informed about
• Procurement committee needs to be
financial issues.
capacitated
• We need to train SMT's and FINCO's on
• Expenditure and deviation analysis needs Public Financial Management ACT
workshop
(PFMA)
• Financial management training needed Principals to be trained in book keeping
• Instill a culture of independence - culture of Training needed for audited financial
entitlement
statements as this seems to be a problem
• Thorough training on public finance
management (Section 21)
Principals & SGB's to be trained on
Subsidy Management
CAPACITY BUILDING
SUPPORT
• Arrange support staff (e.g. school staff)
Department must inform us of donations from
other departments
• Only section 21 schools are audited (Section
20 schools need support)
• Some schools lack infrastructure to keep
records properly
• Poor support from parents
• Lack of support on fundraising efforts
• Stakeholders to take responsibility for care of
institutions
• Banks are away from schools
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