The Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration, Performance Monitoring and Evaluation will tomorrow hold a meeting with some departments to account for their failure to perform as per the Management Performance Assessment Tool (MPAT) guidelines. The MPAT is an assessment tool designed by the Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) aimed at assessing management practices in the Public Service.
Following a presentation by DPME on 17 September, the Committee raised concerns about certain weaknesses and resolved to summon departments with highlighted shortcomings. This is to give an opportunity to these departments to give reasons behind the shortcomings and present their plans to address these limitations. This engagement forms part of the Committee’s resolution to conduct its oversight under the theme “business unusual, my contract with the people.”
The departments that will appear before the Committee include the Department of Military Veterans which showed weaknesses with regards to payment of suppliers within the stipulated 30 days, Public Works which showed weaknesses in management diversity. The other department due to appear include the Department of Water Affairs, Human Settlements, Correctional Services and Justice for weaknesses such as lack of fraud prevention mechanisms, professional ethics, risk management as well as weak internal audit.
Details of the meeting are as follows:
Date: Wednesday, 5 November 2014
Time: 9h30
Venue: S26, First Floor, NCOP building
For media enquiries or interviews with the Chairperson, please contact:
Malatswa Evans Molepo
Cell: 073 297 1914
Tel: 021 403 8438
Email: mmolepo@parliament.gov.za
