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Small Business Development
Strategic Plan of the Portfolio Committee: consideration
7 Apr 2016
The Committee Content Advisor presented the draft strategic objectives to the Committee. The draft included strategic objectives that were recommended and deliberated on by Committee Members at a strategic planning workshop earlier this year. At the workshop Members developed strategies for a sound vision, mission and strategic plan that should ...
Small Business Development
Small Enterprise Development Agency on its Programmes Review results & Annual Performance Plans
6 Apr 2016
The Chief Executive Officer of the Small Enterprise Development Agency reported on the organisation’s Annual Performance Plan and its Review of Non-Financial Support Programmes. The Agency’s programmes were structured to drive towards increase in turnover, increase in the number of people employed and a reduction in the mortality rate of ...
Small Business Development
Small Enterprise Finance Agency (sefa) on its 2016-2020 Corporate Plan
16 Mar 2016
The CEO reported on the five programmes established by sefa in order to intensify the development of SMMEs and cooperatives which included: Access to finance to SMMEs and cooperatives; Post Investment Management; Building an efficient and effective sefa that is performance driven and sustainable; Building a strong and effective sefa ...
Small Business Development
Department of Small Business Development on its 2016 Strategic and Annual Performance Plan
15 Mar 2016
The Committee was briefed on the strategic plan of the Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) and budget. The role of the DSBD was quite extensively set out, with the emphasis on its mandate to jump start the economy to ensure that small businesses reach their maximum potential to develop ...
Small Business Development
Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SEFA) on programme review and proposals
9 Mar 2016
Documents awaited: Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SEFA) on programme review and proposals [email [email protected]]
The CEO reported on the survey conducted by sefa on its products' review. The information was gathered from 13 key informants, interviews with sefa Exco and board members, National Treasury, Seda and IDC (Industrial Development Corporation). More ...
Agriculture
Impact and response to the current drought: Agricultural Research Council, Land Bank, Industrial Development Corporation & South African Weather Input
8 Mar 2016
There is no indication of relief of the current drought conditions. This is what the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries heard recently when four state entities briefed it on the drought impact and what they were doing about it.
The Land Bank informed the Committee it had budgeted ...
Agriculture
Impact and Response to Current Drought: Red Meat Producers’ Organisation; National Emergent Red Meat Producers’ Organisation; SA Pork Producers’ Organisation & SA Poultry Association briefing
1 Mar 2016
The price of meat was going to go up as a result of the drought. This was the warning that came from meat producers when they briefed Members of the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries recently about the effects of drought on the meat production sector.
Price hikes ...
Small Business Development
Department of Small Business Development programme review: briefing by Minister, Deputy Minister & Director General
24 Feb 2016
The Minister, Deputy Minister and Director General presented the Programme Review of the Department of Small Business Development (DSBD). The Review’s diagnostic stage looked at DSBD’s operating environment, internal structures and the programmes themselves. The design stage involved developing strategic recommendations on the optimal portfolio mix to deliver the department’s ...
Small Business Development
Department of Small Business Development on its 2015/16 2nd/3rd Quarter performance, with Minister
17 Feb 2016
The Director General of the Department of Small Business Development presented its quarterly reports for the second and third quarters of operations. These reports highlighted areas of success and shortfall, in the latter case notably of expenditure in the areas of staff vacancies and proper allocation of funding to small ...
Agriculture
Department of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries 2nd Quarter performance: Committee Researcher and AGSA briefings
16 Feb 2016
The Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA) briefed the Portfolio Committee on the 2015/16 second quarter performance report of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF). It was highlighted that AGSA was not looking into causes of achievement or the quantification of targets but was reporting whether the information was verifiable ...