Presentation by Isabel Schmidt made at the OECD Global Policy Roundtable on Equal Access to Justice, 28 March 2019. For more information see www.oecd.org/gov/equal-access-to-justice-oecd-expert-roundtable-portugal-2019.htm

1. Strategic planning and
indicator formulation
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2. F A
B
CD
E
Strategic review
Strategic and Organisational performance
• Mid-term review
• Annual review/2nd quarter review
Strategic analysis
Strategy formulation
Strategic intent/thrust
(drivers for change)
Strategic choices
Strategic investment
Strategic change define (HOW)
(modernize, integrate, innovate, redesign)
Service Delivery Model
Strategic planning
Work planning
Financial planning
Structure planning
Workforce planning
Risk planning
Strategy
implementation
Preparing for implementation
(Buy-in, Communication, Roles and
responsibilities, change mgt)
Budget & structure alignment
Alignment of human resources
Roll-out of change
(systems, processes, skills
development)
Strategic M&E
Collective accountability
Independent strategic
evaluation
Collective
leadership
responsibility
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Situation analysis
Link outputs, budget and
people
Output analysis (WHAT)
• Critial
• Important
• Non-critical
Linking budget to strategy
Workforce analysis
Risk analysis
(Burning, amber, optimal)

3. Legislative requirements
Immediate
Long-Term
Medium-Term
Year 1
Year 2 Year 4 Year 5Year 3 Year 1
Year 2 Year 4 Year 5Year 3
5-Year Strategy (2015/16 – 2019/20) 5-Year Strategy (2020/21 – 2025/26
MTEF
Short-Term
Legislative requirements

4. Where do
we come
from?
Where do
we want to
be?
Where are
we now?
!
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5. IDPDGDPPGDP
MTSF
(Sector
plans)
Regional
(SADC)
Special
Groups
(BRICS)
Agenda
2063
SDG
National
Development
Plan
Measuring our development
June 2019

6. Primary role players in strategic
planning and indicators formulation
Department
of justice and
constitutional
development
Legal Aid
Dept. of
Planning,
Monitoring
and
Evaluation
South African
Police Services
National
Prosecuuting
authority
Other
Government
Departments
e.g. Sociail
Development
Statistics South
Africa
Special
committee on
public
accountability
Public Protector
South African Human Rights
Commission
Commission for the promotion and
protection of CRL Communities
Commission for Gender Equality
Auditor General
Independent Electoral Commission
Independent Authority to Regulate
Broadcasting
Chapter Nine Institutions are
independent and guard democracy

7. Indicator related problems during the
process
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• Relatively easy to identify programmatic interventions
• Possible to identify SMART indicators
• Often difficult to identify data sources
• Context of increasingly limited resources possibilities for
manoeuvring limited
• Development of new data sources often take a whole 5
year cycle and cannot be used for reporting

8. Some unintended consequences…
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• Focus on output rather than outcome/impact indicators
• Use of proxies that are not ideal for monitoring progress
• Exclusion of certain targets, because it cannot be
measured

9. Legislative requirements
Include
establishm
ent of
Governanc
e statistics
unit in
strategy
Continued
implementa-
tion
measurement;
program
adjustment
Year 1 Year 2 Year 4 Year 5Year 3
Year 1 Year 2 Year 4
Year 5
Year 3
5-Year Strategy (2015/16 – 2019/20) 5-Year Strategy (2020/21 – 2025/26
Publish
first access
to justice
report
Re-engineer
Victimization
survey into
Governance
public safety
and justice
survey
Baseline values
available that
can inform
indicator
formulation
Identificati
on of new
data
sources
and
changes
needed to
existing
data source

10. Thank You
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