DIRCO Annual Report

Programme: North-South Dialogue

Deviation from planned target to actual achievement 2021/22

Audited actual performance 2018/19

Audited actual performance 2019/20

Planned annual target 2020/21 100% alignment between the outcomes of North-South engagements and structure strategies

**Actual achievement 2020/21

Reason for deviations

Outcome

Output

Output indicator

Relations with the North leveraged in advancement of national and continental priorities

North-South cooperation utilised to pursue South Africa’s national interest and advance the development agenda

Percentage of alignment between the outcomes of North-South

New indicator

100% alignment between the outcomes of North-South engagements and structure strategies at the following meetings: 1. South Africa prepared for and participated in the virtual 14th South Africa-EU MPD on 14 July 2020 The MPD discussed a range of issues relating to further enhancing the South Africa-EU Strategic Partnership within the challenging context of the COVID-19 pandemic and its political and socio-economic impact on South Africa and the EU; 2. South Africa prepared for, and participated in the extraordinary G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting convened by the G20 Presidency of Saudi Arabia, 03 September 2020.

engagements and structure strategies

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