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COMPLIANCE & ACCOUNTABILITY 4 Compliance statement:
Submitted the Seda July to September 2017 Report to the Department of Small Business Development by end October 2017.
2nd draft of the Seda Annual Performance Plan 2018/19 – 2020/21 submitted to the DSBD by end November 2017.
Seda Annual Stakeholder Forum held on the 2 – 3 November 2017.
Seda April to June 2017 and July to September 2017 Quarterly Reports presented to the Portfolio Committee on Small Business Development on the 8th November 2017.<br>
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2. Performance Information 5<br>
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2017/18 MANDATE, STRATEGIC GOALS AND OBJECTIVES 6 The entity is mandated to promote entrepreneurship and develop small enterprises by providing customised non-financial business support services that results in business growth and sustainability in collaboration with other role players<br>
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2017/18 MANDATE, STRATEGIC GOALS AND OBJECTIVES 7 The entity is mandated to promote entrepreneurship and develop small enterprises by providing customised non-financial business support services that results in business growth and sustainability in collaboration with other role players<br>
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2017/18 MANDATE, STRATEGIC GOALS AND OBJECTIVES 8 The entity is mandated to promote entrepreneurship and develop small enterprises by providing customised non-financial business support services that results in business growth and sustainability in collaboration with other role players<br>
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2017/18 MANDATE, STRATEGIC GOALS AND OBJECTIVES 9 The entity is mandated to promote entrepreneurship and develop small enterprises by providing customised non-financial business support services that results in business growth and sustainability in collaboration with other role players<br>
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2017/18 MANDATE, STRATEGIC GOALS AND OBJECTIVES 10 The entity is mandated to promote entrepreneurship and develop small enterprises by providing customised non-financial business support services that results in business growth and sustainability in collaboration with other role players<br>
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2017/18 MANDATE, STRATEGIC GOALS AND OBJECTIVES 11 The entity is mandated to promote entrepreneurship and develop small enterprises by providing customised non-financial business support services that results in business growth and sustainability in collaboration with other role players<br>
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PERFORMANCE STATEMENT 12 Seda’s performance information is structured in line with Seda’s approved Annual Performance Plan 2017/18 – 2019/120. It gives information on performance against 27 targeted indicators, both on outcome and output levels.
From a total of 27 strategic indicators that were considered for the review, the organisation performed well on 24 indicators, this reflect an organisational performance of 89%.
The organisation did not achieve the following indicators; implementing the activity based costing, improving the recruitment of employees with disabilities and the employee satisfaction index.<br>
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PERFORMANCE STATEMENT 13<br>
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SEDA CLIENT CONVERSION 14<br>
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QUARTERLY COMPARISONS – KEY INDICATORS 15<br>
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OTHER PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS 16 Currently collocating at 59 municipalities and partners, 35 partners collocating at Seda, 7 mobile units and 17 information kiosks.
Second cohort of the National Gazelles announced.
Nine National Gazelles from the first cohort entered the FNB SMME Awards, two awarded gold, two silver, four bronze and on and excellence award.
Negotiations ongoing with Disability People South Africa (KZN) to develop a structured programme to assist entrepreneurs with disabilities.
Four export orientation courses and four pre exhibition training sessions delivered.
A post exhibition workshop was held for the Gauteng SMMEs that attended the China International SME Fair (CISMEF).
Seda Business Advisor Seminar successfully held in October 2017. Precursor to the International Business Advisor Seminar (ICBA) which was held in November 2017.
Design clinics held in Gauteng and Mpumlanga in collaboration with the SABS Design Institute.<br>
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OTHER PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS 17 As part of a partnership with Department of Telecommunication and Postal Services (DTPS), Seda will be developing thirty new start up enterprises as domain registrars. This will be done with Softstart BTI and Zedna (an agency of the DTPS.
Approval for the establishment of a Centre for Entrepreneurship/Rapid Incubator in rail engineering and new technologies at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) received from the DSBD’s Enterprise Incubation Programme.
SAVANT incubator in Cape Town launched by Minister Zulu in October 2017, Vaal University of Technology (VUT) Cfe/Rapid Incubator in Upington launched by Deputy Minister November in November 2017.<br>
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AREAS OF CONCERN & CORRECTIVE ACTION 18 Percentage implementation of activity based costing
After three unsuccessful attempts at sourcing a service provider, organisation will approach other institutions that have implemented activity based costing and look at working with them on implementing it at Seda.
Percentage of person with disabilities employed
Assessment of current offices have revealed challenges in accommodating people with disabilities. Terms of reference for new offices being revised to incorporate disability friendliness.
Employee satisfaction index
Areas of dissatisfaction are being analysed and actions will be effected to improve on these.<br>
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PERFORMANCE: KEY CLIENT DEMOGRAPHICS 19<br>
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PERFORMANCE: KEY CLIENT DEMOGRAPHICS 20<br>
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PERFORMANCE: KEY CLIENT DEMOGRAPHICS 21 Sectoral breakdown – Clients working with<br>
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PERFORMANCE: KEY CLIENT DEMOGRAPHICS 22<br>
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NEW SMMES CREATED PER SECTOR-INCUBATION 23<br>
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CLIENTS SUPPORTED PER SECTOR-INCUBATION 24<br>
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JOBS CREATED PER SECTOR-INCUBATION 25<br>
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KEY RISKS AND QUARTER 3 MITIGATION ACTION 26<br>
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KEY RISKS AND QUARTER 3 MITIGATION ACTION 27<br>
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KEY RISKS AND QUARTER 3 MITIGATION ACTION 28<br>
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KEY RISKS AND QUARTER 3 MITIGATION ACTION 29<br>
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3. KEY HUMAN RESOURCES FIGURES 30 Total number of staff as at end December 2017 was 673
Of this number, 194 are Business Advisors (169 as per approved structure +25 MOU)
Staff vacancy rate currently at 5% for Business Advisors is at 5%
Significant part of National Office are in the Enterprise Development Division and Seda Technology programme, which are part of the core services.<br>
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4. FINANCIAL REPORT 31 The total revised revenue budget for Seda for the 2017/18 financial year amounts to R820,61 million and the total expenditure budget amounts to R820,61 million.
The budget split per expenditure category is as follows:
The actual expenditure for the period 1 April to 31 December 2017 amounted to R 532,20 million resulting in a pro rata under spending of R 28,85 million (5.14%), against the pro-rata budget of R 561,05 million. Commitments at the end of December 2017 were about R23,9 million.<br>
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EXPENDITURE PERFORMANCE 32 Expenditure comparison previous periods to the period under review<br>
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PORTFOLIO SPEND PER PROGRAMME Budget spent per programme year-to-date for the end of 3rd Quarter (Apr – Dec 2017)<br>
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34 5. AUDIT REPORT AND ACTION PLANS<br>
