In South Africa we led two projects and trained several practitioners. See below for country related content.
Projects
MOU with Western Cape Provincial Government
August – December 2019
In August 2019, BSC signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) to work with 5 teams of 46 government officials from the Western Cape Provincial Government and the City of Cape Town, with facilitators from Wesgro, to promote economic growth in the region using the PDIA methodology.
The teams worked on five priority sectors which include: Construction and property development; Light manufacturing; Atlantis special economic zone (manufacturing hub that focuses on green energy); Information technology and business process outsourcing; and Commuter transport. Read an article by Claire Bisseker in the Financial Mail entitled, Strategic shift for Western Cape. This engagement led to several government officials taking our executive education training programs and ultimately using our PDIA approach in their day-to-day work. Western Cape is the first place we know of that is institutionalizing PDIA within its bureaucracy.
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Building PFM Capabilities in Africa
April – December 2017
In April 2017, BSC began a two-year engagement with the Collaborative Africa Budget Reform Initiative (CABRI), an intergovernmental organization based in South Africa, to build capability for Public Financial Management (PFM) reform in Africa.
Teams from Central African Republic, Cote D’Ivoire, Ghana, Lesotho, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and The Gambia participated in this program.
The team from South Africa focused on:
Problem: poor conceptualization of infrastructure projects, leading to wasteful investments.
What was done: The team developed a “good infrastructure project” criteria and then identified case studies to test the criteria against. The team also used surveys to assist in understanding the problem from the point of view of key stakeholders.
What was learned: To gain a better understanding of any problem requires an iterative process to identify and validate the root causes. Implementing solutions without fully understanding the problem may render the solution ineffective
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