... With our stakeholders, and engage on possible solutions and explore options to address enduring challenges in society. We will continue to facilitate training to build capacity of government officials to apply planning, monitoring and evaluation in partnership with the National School of Governance, universities, and the SA Monitoring and
Evaluation Association. The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation also supports and provides planning, monitoring and evaluation to implement the needs of the NDP. The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation provides support on the implementation of its planning and evaluation policy frameworks through the NSG training. We also roll out a bursary programme in collaboration with the Public Service Education and Training Authority, PSETA, on postgraduate diploma in monitoring and evaluation conducted by Universities of Fort Hare and Wits. We will mobilise government, labour, civil society, academia; and private sector towards ensuring delivery of our objectives in every province. Our planned new model, as announced by President in his state of the nation address, SONA, is to focus our energies at district level and activate various participatory governance mechanisms.
We are in the process of developing a new analytical framework for departmental performance, otherwise known as MPAT. This will ensure that we move from assessing compliance to analysing the e- capabilities of the state using existing data sources. We will strengthen our early warning capacity to guide and support interventions for national and provincial government departments. One of the areas analysed would be financial management and
improvement of audit outcomes. To strengthen governance of public entities, we are developing a monitoring and oversight framework. The extent of oversight by the relevant departments differs substantially. It is critical that departmental oversight in relation to their entities is improved. We would like to ensure stability of entity boards as accounting authorities in terms of the Public Finance Management Act, PFMA. We will also prioritise the filling of vacancies in senior positions, particularly the chief executive officers CEOs of entities. We recognise that the establishment ... [Interjections.]