Chairperson, in
terms of the Public Service and Administration Regulations 2016, the Minister for Public Service and Administration after consultation with the Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs, he is responsible for developing a framework within which the community development worker programme operates. To maximise its efficiency, intend engaging with the Minister of Co-operative
Governance and Traditional Affairs to ensure that the responsibility of this programme is located within one Minister and in this instance it will be the co-operative government, that being the Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs who is also currently managing the implementation of the programme. Based on the case studies and reports received from community development workers, CDW, co-ordinators this programme is making progress in supporting government in resolving service delivery deficiencies in communities.
Community development workers within their wards across provinces have unlocked or unblocked, or resolved, or fast tracked service delivery by opening doors for people who have identity documents, birth certificates problems, unlocked local economic development for unemployed people, facilitated access to government housing, health services, youth centres, indigent grants and social grants. They advocate for fixing poorly built Reconstruction and Development Programme, RDP, houses, disaster management, bridges that can connect communities, food security facilitating and registration of early childhood centres in poor communities. These are all the things that they have done in the breadth and width of the country.
Evidence of this is captured in different case studies of the community development workers that were developed and submitted, collated and showcased in different communication media for sharing and best practices. The Department of Public Service and Administration, DPSA, is one of the recipients of the case studies from provinces on the work done by the community development workers. In some provinces community development workers have received awards including from the premiers' excellence awards. This is our case as far as community development workers are concerned. Thank you.