DFFE Business performance
THE DFFE
PERFORMANCE
INFORMATION
The most important documents tabled for the department every year are its - STRATEGIC PLANS (SPs), the budget and ANNUAL REPORTS (ARs). Performance indicators and targets that the department will seek to achieve in the upcoming budget year are indentified through ANNUAL PERFORMANCE PLANS (APPs). These DOCUMENTS are informed by, among others, commitments arising out of the Medium-Term Development Plan (MTDP).
INTRODUCTION
PERFORMANCE INFORMATION is important for effective management, including planning, budgeting, implementation, reporting, monitoring and evaluation. These documents are principally informed by the mandate, functions, powers and responsibilities of the DFFE as determined by section 24 of Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, key government priorities and other legislations applicable to DFFE, AS WELL AS COMMITMENTS arising out of MTDP.
actual performance
annual reports
The annual report is backward-looking, as it reports on actual performance at the end of the financial year, reporting on how the strategic plan and budget were implemented. It looks at the department’s performance relative to targets set in annual performance plan and provides audited annual financial statements.
performance indicators + targets
annual performance plans
Annual performance plan is forward-looking. It clarifies what the department intends doing in upcoming financial year and during MTEF to implement its strategic plan. APP sets out performance indicators and targets for budget programmes, and sub-programmes where relevant, to facilitate realising of goals and objectives set out in the strategic plan.
technical performance indicator desriptions (TPIDs) included.
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outcomes orientated goals + objectives
medium - term strategic plans
The strategic plan is forward-looking. It sets out performance objectives and targets against which the department should be reporting on its annual report. Policy priorities, programmes and project plans for a five-year period are set out, as approved by department's executive authority, within the scope of available resources. Focus is on strategic outcomes oriented goals for the department as a whole, and objectives for each of its main service-delivery areas aligned to its budget programmes.