Economic Development Annual Report

Annual Report 2023/2024 Mpumalanga: Department of Economic Development and Tourism - Vote 6

Actual (Over)/Under Expenditure R’000 R’000 R’000 R’000 R’000 R’000 Total 39 417 37 411 2 006 40 748 40 747 1 Expenditure

Linking performance with budgets The sub-programme was allocated R40 748 million and spent R40 747 million of the budget and spent R 40 747 of its budget to facilitate the implementation of the Workplace Skills Plan, PMDS, Labour Relations and the financial disclosures. It must be noted that since the implementation of these targets has dependencies there was no 100% implementation which was mainly due to non-compliance by employees. In cases of non compliance the necessary disciplinary measures were effected in order to avoid future non-compliance. Sub-programme expenditure Sub- Programme Corporate Services 2022/2023 2023/2024 Final Appropriation Actual Expenditure (Over)/Under Expenditure Final Appropriation

Strategy to overcome areas of under performance • Employees will be encouraged to submit their training needs during the needs identification process so they can be included in the WSP; • Employees will be informed of the training application process when the WSP for 2024-2025 is finalised and shared with all staff; • The grievance matter will be finalised once the employee returns to work;

• Parties will continuously be engaged to emphasise the importance to adhere to the timelines as per the prescripts on misconduct matters; • Letters were written to all employees who did not comply with the PMDS policy to provide reasons for non-compliance, and were also disqualified from receiving pay progression; • All designated employees who did not comply with financial disclosure interests will be investigated and corrective measures will be implemented.

Performance in relation to Standardised Outputs and Output Indicators for Sectors with Concurrent Functions None; all targets reported

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