As part of public sector reform, South Africa’s government has since 2001 initiated a planning, budgeting and reporting process to institutionalise the ‘value-for-money’ principle within all government departments.
The planning process entails developing strategic and annual performance plans, allocating resources to implement those plans, and monitoring and evaluating the results using various accountability documents such as annual reports. Performance indicators are integral to the planning process to measure progress and results in implementing the strategic and annual performance plan.
The National Treasury and Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation have developed a series of indicator frameworks linked to the planning process to guide the public sector in measuring its performance over time. However, due to their complexity, serious doubts exist about the efficiency of implementing these frameworks, which did not necessarily translate into impact results.
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