The Gauteng Department of Local Government will be commemorating Public Service Week along with the rest of the country from the 29 June to 3 July 2009 under the theme "Delivery of quality service for sustainable development".
The occasion is an integral part of the ongoing Batho Pele Revitalisation strategy, which is aimed at instilling or rebuilding good ethics, morale and pride in public servants' endeavours to translate the people's contract into reality through the provision of quality services that are responding to the needs of the people. Public Service Week seeks to broaden access to services by taking services to the people. This platform also embraces integrated approaches to effectively utilise limited government resources for improved results.
Public Service Day recognises that democracy and successful governance are built on the foundation of a competent civil service, that is why government continues to put in place, developmental and sustainable machinery that are geared towards facilitating access to quality services and enhancing robust participation through our intergovernmental development policies, frameworks and programmes across the three spheres.
The driving force is to ensure high-level compliance with the implementation of Batho Pele by taking the services to the people and thus putting them first for real. For an example, the improved integrated service delivery through the Thusong Centres; Batho Pele gateway portal; the introduction of about 3 000 new cadre of public servants of a special kind called the Community Development Workers (CDWs); has gone an extra mile towards getting services closer to the people - linking people with government, the government intervention to strengthen the municipalities to improve on service delivery through project consolidates, the list is endless.
Issued by: Department of Local Government, Gauteng Provincial Government
1 July 2009
Source: Department of Local Government, Gauteng Provincial Government (http://www.dlg.gpg.gov.za/index.asp)
