Assignment 3

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Shaleen Makgetha

Questions

Thoroughly analyse Figure 7 in your Study Guide (System Model towards improved
development…) and answer the following questions with short explanatory notes
(sentences and paragraphs):

1. Look at each of the inputs, enablers, outcomes, and re-evaluation

phases identified in Figure 7. Apply them to the public sector institution
where you work by identifying organisational units, functions,
processes, and interventions and write short explanatory notes
(sentences and short paragraphs) about it.
The SWOT-analysis format will be used for easy classification of typical
characteristics and challenging issues in SA's dynamic municipal government
sphere. SWOT stands for the intra- and internal strengths (S) and
weaknesses (W) of an institution, as well as the opportunities (O) and threats
(T) that exist in the surrounding (external) environment. The SWOT analysis is
a technique used by managers to gain an overview of an institution's strategic
position (Rossouw, 2007:70).
The newly merged 284 municipalities, which now cover every ‘millimetre' of
the country, are focused on growing local economies and maintaining the
provision of much more diverse and complex basic municipal services to
previously neglected geographical areas and citizens. Natural resources are
now managed for the benefit of all citizens; more basic public services are
now available to more citizens at lower costs. Locations throughout the
country in a more open and accessible manner; Segregation based on race,
unequal allocation and delivery of basic services have been replaced by all-
inclusive developmental local governance; and the media is playing an active
and effective role in advancing the cause. Basic service delivery and effective
local governance are essential.
2. Describe the sequential logic of the five inputs indicated in Figure 7.
Legislative input
The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa (Act 108 of 1996) establishes
the so-called "social contract" between the South African government and the
country's citizens through the organization of the three spheres of
governmental legislature and policy implementation. The government has a
moral obligation to be sensitive to, identify, and take serious notice of the
country's citizens' innumerable needs, and then determine which of them
should be addressed through effective and efficient public administration
through effective and efficient public administration and management to add
value to their respective communities as well as the country's society.
Diversity and complexity
How can the Game of Life produce complexity if there isn't much diversity?
There are two answers: a large number of parts and interdependence, which
results in emergent structures.
First, the large number answer: a long string of zeros and ones demonstrates
a sufficiently rich space to support complexity, just as a long string of DNA
can contain life's instructions. Complexity necessitates little diversity in the
parts, as long as there are enough of them. With enough zeros and ones, you
can say anything. Second, the components are interconnected. The sum, or
the component made up of the parts, can be more complicated than the parts
themselves.
Politics
3. Describe the place and role of the enablers indicated in Figure 7 and
identify an example from practice for each. Attention must be given to,
among other things, a few Batho Pele principles, and coordination
between management, role-players, and stakeholders.
Although the national government sphere, the Department of Human
Settlements, as the overarching and major role-player, is doing its best in
South Africa's dynamic and rapidly developing public housing sector, it may
be becoming stifled by too much bureaucracy and the centralisation of
authority in executing public policy. Because of the vast diversity and
complexities that public officials face in the human settlements sector, the
 government and its line functionaries simply cannot do it all. They require
assistance... and they require it quickly!
To help with these challenges, “big picture” thinkers such as environmental
geographers, geologists, geo-hydrologists, and all their assisting technically
qualified line functionaries and organizational units, such as the Directorate of
Geo-Hydrology at the Department of Water and Sanitation, Department of
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Department of Public Works,
Department of Water and Sanitation, Department of Water and Sanitation,
Department of Public Works, Department of Water and Sanitation,
Department of Public Works, Department This can be accomplished, for
example, through public-private partnerships (PPPs).

4. Describe and apply the six phases of the re-evaluation of outcomes process
indicated in Figure 7.