An assessment of the monitoring and evaluation function in the Eastern Cape office of the premier
- Authors: Qinela, Loyisokazi
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MPA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/1071 , vital:26523
- Description: This study responds to the need to understand the shifts in the national monitoring and evaluation policy context from output and compliance focus to outcomes and performance focus. The study also responds to need to understand how national policies are interpreted and implemented in the province through the Office of the Premier. The purpose of the study is to assess the monitoring and evaluation function in the Eastern Cape Office of the Premier. The following research questions will guide the study: a. What is the context, rationale, purpose and claims of the National M&E Policy? b. How does the Eastern Cape Office of the Premier implement the monitoring & evaluation function? c. How does the implementation of M&E by Office of the Premier resonate with intention of the National M&E policy & what are the gaps. In this study, both qualitative and quantitative approaches were used. The use of interviews and questionnaires demonstrates the mix method approach. This approach was preferred since one part of the research analyses policy documents and the other one assesses implementation. The key findings of the research were: Although the context, rationale, purpose and claims of the National and Provincial M&E Policies are clearly articulated, there is no national legislation that gives the Office of the Premier power to enforce the implementation of the M&E policies. Both national and provincial M&E policies are not sensitive to the context of implementation. There is poor enabling environment in the Office of the Premier to implement M&E. There is a gap between planning and M&E functions in the Province the Premier’s Office, Provincial Treasury and Department of Local Government have not succeeded in coordination and the definition of roles and responsibilities for rolling out a Province wide M&E system. The M&E Policies do not address the problem of duplicate reporting in the Province. The M&E Provincial Framework has several limitations that will affect implementation. The National M&E policies are silent on the monitoring role of the legislative branch of government. There is no alignment between the development and monitoring of Service Delivery Improvement Plans with the rest of the implementation of M&E policies. Poor intergovernmental relations in the province make it difficult to fully implement M&E policies. . Programme Managers focus narrowly on day to day management functions with little or no focus on monitoring and evaluation. There was very poor usage for M&E evidence by the for decision making.
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- Date Issued: 2013
- Authors: Qinela, Loyisokazi
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MPA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/1071 , vital:26523
- Description: This study responds to the need to understand the shifts in the national monitoring and evaluation policy context from output and compliance focus to outcomes and performance focus. The study also responds to need to understand how national policies are interpreted and implemented in the province through the Office of the Premier. The purpose of the study is to assess the monitoring and evaluation function in the Eastern Cape Office of the Premier. The following research questions will guide the study: a. What is the context, rationale, purpose and claims of the National M&E Policy? b. How does the Eastern Cape Office of the Premier implement the monitoring & evaluation function? c. How does the implementation of M&E by Office of the Premier resonate with intention of the National M&E policy & what are the gaps. In this study, both qualitative and quantitative approaches were used. The use of interviews and questionnaires demonstrates the mix method approach. This approach was preferred since one part of the research analyses policy documents and the other one assesses implementation. The key findings of the research were: Although the context, rationale, purpose and claims of the National and Provincial M&E Policies are clearly articulated, there is no national legislation that gives the Office of the Premier power to enforce the implementation of the M&E policies. Both national and provincial M&E policies are not sensitive to the context of implementation. There is poor enabling environment in the Office of the Premier to implement M&E. There is a gap between planning and M&E functions in the Province the Premier’s Office, Provincial Treasury and Department of Local Government have not succeeded in coordination and the definition of roles and responsibilities for rolling out a Province wide M&E system. The M&E Policies do not address the problem of duplicate reporting in the Province. The M&E Provincial Framework has several limitations that will affect implementation. The National M&E policies are silent on the monitoring role of the legislative branch of government. There is no alignment between the development and monitoring of Service Delivery Improvement Plans with the rest of the implementation of M&E policies. Poor intergovernmental relations in the province make it difficult to fully implement M&E policies. . Programme Managers focus narrowly on day to day management functions with little or no focus on monitoring and evaluation. There was very poor usage for M&E evidence by the for decision making.
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- Date Issued: 2013
Assessing the effect of Public Participation and development communications on service delivery: the case of the department of Social Development in the Eastern Cape (2004-2010)
- Authors: Maswana, Gcobani
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: Political participation -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Human services -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Community development -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Civil service -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Municipal services -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Human capital -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Sustainable development -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MPA
- Identifier: vital:11652 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1006979 , Political participation -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Human services -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Community development -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Civil service -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Municipal services -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Human capital -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Sustainable development -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Description: Public Participation is a critical facet of development communication. The Republic of South Africa (RSA) Constitution 1996 promotes a set of values of good governance setting a framework for the public participation, and democratization of the public sector through instruments such as developmental communication in order to impact better service delivery. Public participation is an effective communication platform of a new democratic South Africa, as such, public participation forms part of the Constitution of the RSA Act (108 of 1996). To necessitate good governance, it is very imperative that the citizenry, being voters to take an active role in the affairs of governance. The credibility, legitimacy, acceptability, support for governance structures and sustainability of any government is dependable mostly on how citizens are participating in the affairs of government.The research topic being-assessing the effect of Public Participation and Development Communications on service delivery:the case of the department of Social Development in the Eastern Cape focused on Ingquza Municipality in O.R.Tambo District of the Eastern Cape.The public administration has positioned financial management and human resources as critical elements for effective and efficient system. The study has identified that the omission of public participation and development communication as a gap that need to be optimally utilized to avoid communication gap that leads to unnecessary service delivery protests. The study position communication as strategic and management function of each and every manager. The importance of Public Participation is that it could help to ensure that the citizens take ownership of processes as an important democratic principle.The imbizo’s as public participation tool and effective communication platform has been proven to be effective. The strengthening of development communication in the department to empower communities through development communication cadres and information dissemination is paramount important. Furthermore this will make sure that there is a continuous feedback on quality assurance programme in implementing political pronouncements that are made during imbizo’s.
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- Date Issued: 2013
- Authors: Maswana, Gcobani
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: Political participation -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Human services -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Community development -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Civil service -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Municipal services -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Human capital -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Sustainable development -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MPA
- Identifier: vital:11652 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1006979 , Political participation -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Human services -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Community development -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Civil service -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Municipal services -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Human capital -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Sustainable development -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Description: Public Participation is a critical facet of development communication. The Republic of South Africa (RSA) Constitution 1996 promotes a set of values of good governance setting a framework for the public participation, and democratization of the public sector through instruments such as developmental communication in order to impact better service delivery. Public participation is an effective communication platform of a new democratic South Africa, as such, public participation forms part of the Constitution of the RSA Act (108 of 1996). To necessitate good governance, it is very imperative that the citizenry, being voters to take an active role in the affairs of governance. The credibility, legitimacy, acceptability, support for governance structures and sustainability of any government is dependable mostly on how citizens are participating in the affairs of government.The research topic being-assessing the effect of Public Participation and Development Communications on service delivery:the case of the department of Social Development in the Eastern Cape focused on Ingquza Municipality in O.R.Tambo District of the Eastern Cape.The public administration has positioned financial management and human resources as critical elements for effective and efficient system. The study has identified that the omission of public participation and development communication as a gap that need to be optimally utilized to avoid communication gap that leads to unnecessary service delivery protests. The study position communication as strategic and management function of each and every manager. The importance of Public Participation is that it could help to ensure that the citizens take ownership of processes as an important democratic principle.The imbizo’s as public participation tool and effective communication platform has been proven to be effective. The strengthening of development communication in the department to empower communities through development communication cadres and information dissemination is paramount important. Furthermore this will make sure that there is a continuous feedback on quality assurance programme in implementing political pronouncements that are made during imbizo’s.
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- Date Issued: 2013
A cox proportional hazard model for mid-point imputed interval censored data
- Authors: Gwaze, Arnold Rumosa
- Date: 2011
- Subjects: Statistics -- Econometric models , Survival analysis (Biometry) , Mathematical statistics -- Data processing , Nonparametric statistics , Sampling (Statistics) , Multiple imputation (Statistics)
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc (Biostatistics and Epidemiology)
- Identifier: vital:11780 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/385 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1001135 , Statistics -- Econometric models , Survival analysis (Biometry) , Mathematical statistics -- Data processing , Nonparametric statistics , Sampling (Statistics) , Multiple imputation (Statistics)
- Description: There has been an increasing interest in survival analysis with interval-censored data, where the event of interest (such as infection with a disease) is not observed exactly but only known to happen between two examination times. However, because so much research has been focused on right-censored data, so many statistical tests and techniques are available for right-censoring methods, hence interval-censoring methods are not as abundant as those for right-censored data. In this study, right-censoring methods are used to fit a proportional hazards model to some interval-censored data. Transformation of the interval-censored observations was done using a method called mid-point imputation, a method which assumes that an event occurs at some midpoint of its recorded interval. Results obtained gave conservative regression estimates but a comparison with the conventional methods showed that the estimates were not significantly different. However, the censoring mechanism and interval lengths should be given serious consideration before deciding on using mid-point imputation on interval-censored data.
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- Date Issued: 2011
- Authors: Gwaze, Arnold Rumosa
- Date: 2011
- Subjects: Statistics -- Econometric models , Survival analysis (Biometry) , Mathematical statistics -- Data processing , Nonparametric statistics , Sampling (Statistics) , Multiple imputation (Statistics)
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc (Biostatistics and Epidemiology)
- Identifier: vital:11780 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/385 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1001135 , Statistics -- Econometric models , Survival analysis (Biometry) , Mathematical statistics -- Data processing , Nonparametric statistics , Sampling (Statistics) , Multiple imputation (Statistics)
- Description: There has been an increasing interest in survival analysis with interval-censored data, where the event of interest (such as infection with a disease) is not observed exactly but only known to happen between two examination times. However, because so much research has been focused on right-censored data, so many statistical tests and techniques are available for right-censoring methods, hence interval-censoring methods are not as abundant as those for right-censored data. In this study, right-censoring methods are used to fit a proportional hazards model to some interval-censored data. Transformation of the interval-censored observations was done using a method called mid-point imputation, a method which assumes that an event occurs at some midpoint of its recorded interval. Results obtained gave conservative regression estimates but a comparison with the conventional methods showed that the estimates were not significantly different. However, the censoring mechanism and interval lengths should be given serious consideration before deciding on using mid-point imputation on interval-censored data.
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- Date Issued: 2011
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