DID ANNUAL REPORT 2023_24

Annual Report 2023-2024

3. FOREWORD BY THE MEC

reverting to previous stages, resulting in costly delays and depriving our communities of essential infrastructure pivotal to improving their lives. Mastering the fundamentals requires strict adherence to tools such as the Project Readiness Matrix, leveraging smart technologies, and introducing transparent reporting platforms, ensuring a single source of truth for our projects. We must automate our delivery process, enabling timely intervention when issues arise. Eliminating manual and outdated reporting methods is imperative, as these disrupt progress and cause project managers to operate in silos, relying solely on spreadsheets and paper documents. To address this, we will introduce the Infrastructure Delivery Platform (IDEP) in the third quarter of this financial year. This digital project monitoring tool will enable key stakeholders and client departments to track construction and maintenance works throughout the building stages. Key goals of the IDEP include: • Project Readiness Matrix (PRM): Ensures compliance and fosters collaboration for project success. • Infrastructure Project Governance Lab: Focuses on the effective management of project documentation. • Smart Technologies: Integrates advanced technology for enhanced compliance, productivity, and sustainability. • Project Finance Compliance: Addresses financial challenges to prevent project delays and failures. • Project Site Compliance: Utilises technology to ensure standardised, compliant site management. The digitisation project will empower key stakeholders and our client departments with critical project data at

Infrastructure development serves as the bedrock for service delivery and a catalyst for economic growth, placing our department at the core of the Gauteng Provincial Government’s efforts to create employment and facilitate economic recovery. We acknowledge that there are opportunities to enhance our internal processes and project management throughout the development stages as prescribed by the Infrastructure Delivery Management System. In this Seventh administration of the Gauteng Provincial Government, we have committed ourselves to mastering the fundamentals. This commitment entails ensuring our social infrastructure projects follow a linear process from design to construction and the eventual disposal of assets. Unfortunately, we have often witnessed projects

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DEPARTMENT OF INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT