SOUTH AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Performance

Transcript:SOUTH AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Performance:
SOUTH AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Performance Overview: Cumulative Quarter 4 of 2019-20 and Quarter 1 of 2020-21 Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services 14 October 2020 Contents Overview of organisational performance environment Cumulative 2019-20 Quarter 4 Performance Overview of 2019-20 Financial Statements Budget Overview 2020-21 First Quarter 2020-21 Performance An overview of personnel related matters (2019-20 and 2020-21) Anticipated spending pressures and forward funding needs 2021 MTEF Adjustments to the Strategic Plan (2020 – 2025) and Annual Performance Plan (2020-21) 2 Overview Organisational Performance Environment New 5 year strategic plan (2020 – 2025) was developed: Underpinned by the need to address the key challenges facing South Africa: inequality, poverty, unemployment and violence. Contains clearly identifiable human rights priorities and envisaged outcomes. Ensuring effective delivery on the mandate amidst resources constraints. Stable performance evident in having attained an unqualified audit for the 7th consecutive year. Covid-19 challenges and interventions. Increasing need to promote accountability of government for human rights violations and implementation of SAHRC Recommendations and Directives. Appeal for greater Parliamentary oversight and collaboration in support of pro-human rights positions. 3 Overview of Performance: Cumulative 2019-20 Quarter 4 (April 2019 to March 2020) 4 Overview of Performance 2019-20 Achievement of Targets over the last 5 years 5 Overview of Performance 2019-20 Achievement of Targets over the last 5 years (2) An average 82% target achievement over the last 5 years. Declines largely due to leadership transitional arrangements with new cohort of Commissioners and the CEO arriving during 2017. Notable recovery between 2018-19 and 2019-20 with consolidated strategies and approaches. Consecutive unqualified audits for the 7th year. Challenges with performance processes and audit findings receiving attention. 6 Overview of Performance 2019-20 Achievement of Targets by Programme 7 Overview of Performance 2019-20 Promotion Programme Achievements Overall Hosted the flagship National Schools Moot Court Competition with the Departments of Basic Education and Justice: 6 000 secondary schools participated and 82 qualified. Joint Team of 2 schools from the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal won the national final in the Constitutional Court. Team S. A. proceeded to thereafter compete with 11 other countries in the International Moot Court Competition in Poland, and won the finals against the United States of America. Hosted a workshop with the HSRC and CSIR on the 4th Industrial Revolution to explore digitisation and strategic use of ICT to advance Human Rights. 224 public outreach engagements were undertaken to empower especially