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PAN - AFRICAN CONFERENCE
ON PUBLIC SERVICE
ACCOUNTABILITY & POLICY
ADVOCACY
6th, 7th August 2015, CSIR International
Convention Centre Pretoria.
Expected outcomes of this conference include: • Getting to know the politics that drive decisions at
various levels of the government
• Learning what the latest policy shifts mean to the
public and service delivery
• Understand the specific guidelines, policy objectives,
influences and requirements of public sector supply
chain management
• Appreciation of how evidence-based policymaking
enhance successful implementation and delivery
• Identifying the critical behavioral, managerial,
structural and political process dynamics and
complexities of policymaking
• Understand revenue categorisation and allocation as
well as an understanding of the legal instruments that
control revenue collection and management
• Conducting public opinion surveys, speak with experts
in related fields, and examine specific organizational
agendas
• Recognising the true public in the politics of public
interest
• Ensuring compliance with sub-national and national
government mandates
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PAN - AFRICAN CONFERENCE
ON PUBLIC SERVICE ACCOUNTABILITY
& POLICY ADVOCACY
This is a unique high-level
networking platform for: • Policy advisors and analysts
• Legislators
• Director Generals
• Heads of Mission
• Research policy managers
• Managing Directors and CEOs
• Provincial administrators
• Municipal managers
• General Managers
• Heads of Department
• Economic development managers
• Members of the Executive Council
(MECs)
• Organisational change and design
experts
• Academics
From: • Central governments
• Local authorities
• Parastatals
• International and regional
organizations
• Development agencies
• Embassies
• Political parties
• Private sector
• Higher education institutions
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Olajobi Makinwa, Head: Transparency & Anti-Corruption
Initiatives – United Nations Global Compact.
As part of her assignment, she assists UN Global Compact participants in
the implementation of their commitment to the 10th principle. She also
heads the 10th Principle Working Group that provides strategic direction to
the work of the UN Global Compact on transparency and conducting
business with ethics and integrity. Olajobi is also responsible for coordinat-
ing the participation of civil society and their engagement in the UN Global
Compact with a view to deepen current relations and to widen their
engagement. Prior to joining the UN Global Compact, Olajobi was the
Executive Director of Amnesty International South Africa. Olajobi has also
served as a consultant to UNDP, ILO, UNHCHR, and the Human Sciences
Research Council, South Africa and a law lecturer in Nigeria.
Servaas Du Plessis, President – Association of Certified
Fraud Examiners.
He is a graduate of the University of Natal; he completed his Bachelor of
Commerce degree with majors in Business Information Systems and
Information Systems Technology.
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW The impetus to organise this conference stems from the overall concern over the increasing trend in ethical violations
and the manifestation of corrupt activities in many African public service agencies in particular. Reform efforts in the
region have so far produced mixed results because lack of accountability has become so entrenched and institutional-
ised.
Now there is increasing pressure on public service administrators to demonstrate personal integrity, to ensure public
services are delivered with high standards of accountability and transparency, and with high levels of public confi-
dence. Values-based reform has proved to be a fundamental part of the social fabric in developed countries and it
furthers innovation and prosperity.
With this in mind, the major objectives of this event are to identify the factors inhibiting ethical performance and weak-
ening accountability in the public services and to recommend innovative ways of dealing with them to drive economic
recovery and development. The inaugural event also intends to go beyond speeches and discussions by providing
participants with an ample opportunity to form global and intra-continental cooperation linkages to review policies,
conceptual frameworks and support initiatives.
This will be an excellent platform to build capacities among participants from governments, the civil society, private
sector and academia to improve public service accountability and prevent corruption through citizens’ mobilization and
policy advocacy.
Subsequently, he read for the Advanced Business Programme
and Bachelor of Technology (Management) at Technikon Natal,
before studying for his master’s in Business Administration
through the University of Wales. His dissertation, which exam-
ined the security risk management measures that banks adopt in
online banking, was awarded a distinction. His other qualifica-
tions include the Foundation Certificate in IT Service Manage-
ment (ISEB), the Advanced Security Management Programme
from Technikon Pretoria, a post-graduate diploma in Forensic
and Investigative Accounting and a master in Security Studies
from the University of Pretoria. He is a member of the Golden
Key Honours Society.
Before joining the HSRC in November 2006, she
worked as an independent researcher - authoring,
among other work, the 2003 Annual Aids Review for the
University of Pretoria and conducting a major research
project for the Centre for the Study of Violence and
Reconciliation on Transition and Violence in 2005. Prior
to this Dr Barolsky worked as a Director at the Secre-
tariat for Safety and Security as well as serving as a
researcher at the South African Truth and Reconciliation
Commission where she authored one of the chapters of
its final report.
Francis Antonie is the director of the Helen
Suzman Foundation.
He is a graduate of Wits, Leicester and Exeter Universities. He
was awarded the Helen Suzman Chevening Fellowship by the
UK foreign Office in 1994. From 1996 to 2006 he was senior
economist at Standard Bank; thereafter he was director of the
Graduate School of Public and Development Management at
Wits University. He is the founding managing director of Strauss
& Co.
Dr. Annie Barbara Chikwanha holds a
PhD in Political Science from the
University of Bergen in Norway.
The project works on conflict and peace in the region
as well as measuring public attitudes to crime and
policing. Before that, Annie worked as a key
researcher with the Afrobarometer Network from 1999
until 2006 and was an Associate Director by the time
she left at the end of 2006. Her work with the Afroba-
rometer centred on measuring attitudes to democracy
and governance in 18 African countries. She has
worked on democracy and governance and published
on these areas since she was with the University of
Zimbabwe (1995-2000).
Thapelo Mokushane, Deputy Director :
Truth & Reconciliation Commission Unit –
Department of Justice &Constitutional Development.
Maiendra Moodley is the Divisional Head
for Financial Systems and Processess at
SITA, State Information Technology
Agency.
Dr. Vanessa Barolsky, Research Specialist:
Democracy, Governance & Service Delivery
Programme – Human Sciences Research Council
(HSRC)
Dr. Vanessa Barolsky holds a PhD in Sociology from the Univer-
sity of the Witwatersrand and has had approximately 18 years of
research experience in a variety of fields, particularly related to
questions of political transition, justice, policing, social cohesion
and social conflict as well as human rights, democratization and
civic participation, both in South Africa and in an international
comparative perspective. She has published on issues of social
cohesion, elections, policing, criminal justice, violence and
citizen participation in democratic governance. As Chief
Researcher and currently Research Specialist at the HSRC over
the past six years she has led a variety of projects on subjects
ranging from trust in criminal justice, violence in an international
comparative perspective, social cohesion and citizen participa-
tion in democratic governance. She is currently the Global
Programme Coordinator for Democratic Governance at Action
Aid. Previously she was a Senior Research Fellow in the
Institute for Security Studies where she headed the African
Human Security Initiative (AHSI) project at the institute’s Nairobi
offices.
Advocate Richard Sizani, Deputy
Chairperson Public Service Commission
South Africa.
• Dr. D Boyd Johns JD – Political Scientist And International
Human Rights Advocate- New York –USA.
• Advocate Monnapula Motlogelwa, Managing
Director – Mosakga Governance & Management Solutions.
PAN - AFRICAN CONFERENCE
ON PUBLIC SERVICE ACCOUNTABILITY
& POLICY ADVOCACY
CONFERENCE AGENDA:
DAY 1 Thursday, 6 August 2015
08: 00 – 08: 30 Arrival & Registration
08: 30 – 08: 45 Chairperson’s Welcome Speech
08: 45 – 09: 30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Civil Society and Public Accountability:
The need for active monitoring
• Why should civil society care about the accountability
of public officials?
• Are officials within the African public service committed
to the values of transparency and accountability?
• Can the public service be transformed internally?
• Can public protection agencies force public officials to
become accountable?
• Is the civil society in a position to encourage public
service accountability in Africa?
09: 30 – 10: 15 Policy instruments and the limits of
government action
• Reviewing things that government can do
• Thinking in terms of efficiency, equity and administrative
simplicity
• Comparing policy instruments and developing outcomes
matrices
• Comprehensive problem and solution analysis
10: 15 – 10: 45 Coffee/Tea Break
10: 45 – 11: 30 Fraud and corruption -
interconnectedness of the public
• Global statistical overview - ACFE Annual Global Report
• Why should the public and private sector collaborate in
the fight against white collar crimes
• Illustration of interconnectedness across industry &
public sector
• What can we do in SA to improve collaborative efforts
in anti-white collar crime initiatives
11: 30 – 12: 15 Demystifying other Key Legal
Frameworks Regulating Public Finances in South Africa
• Understanding the financial management provisions
of the constitution
• Understand the role and the function of the Executive
Authority and the Accounting Officer
• Understand the role and responsibilities of other officials
• Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA)
• Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act (PPPFA)
• Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act
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12: 15 – 13: 00 NIGERIAN CASE STUDY
Ghost Workers in the Public Service: Who gave the
jobs of the living to ghosts?
13: 00 – 14: 00 Networking Lunch
14: 00 – 14: 45 Ethical Leadership & Corporate
Citizenship
• Five Constitutional Ideals for the public service
• Leadership & ethics
• Leadership & transparency
• Leadership & accountability
• Strategies for good corporate citizenship
14: 45 – 15: 30 Responding to incivility and
keeping professional credibility
• Internal incivility
• Ethical dilemmas
• Sticky situations
• Advocating without being political
15: 30 – 15: 45 Mid-Afternoon Break
15: 45 – 16: 30 Impact and Importance of
Women at the Local Government Policy Making
Table Presentation and discussion of key factors
of why we need women at the policy making table
in local governments across the globe.
Including how women’s participation in the public
sector ensures that nations can better meet the
challenges of the 21st century. This discussion is
grounded in research and has high application to
practice.
16: 30 – 16: 45 Chairperson’s Closing remarks
PAN - AFRICAN CONFERENCE
ON PUBLIC SERVICE ACCOUNTABILITY
& POLICY ADVOCACY
CONFERENCE AGENDA:
DAY 2 – Friday, 7 August 2015
08: 00 – 08: 30 Arrival &Registration
08: 30 – 08: 45 Chairperson’s Closing Remarks
08: 45 – 09: 30 Managing the overall public sector
system to minimize fraud
• HR risk management
• Organizational process for managing ethics
• Professional code of conduct for HR professionals
in the public service
09: 30 – 10: 15 Applying King III on Organizational
Ethics Management to Local Government
• Ethics and values
• Ethical leadership and public service
• Culture change in the organization
• King III on governing and managing ethics in
the workplace
10: 15 – 10: 45 Coffee/Tea Break
10: 45 – 11: 30 The institutional Setting
• The organisation of society, distinguishing individual
and collective decision-making processes
• The institutional context within which policy advice is
delivered
• How policies are developed and move through the
machinery of government
11: 30 – 12: 15 The State of Local Government
Democracy Assessments
• What has changing the political superstructure achieved?
• Has the fundamental structure of the economy changed?
• What needs to change?
• What role for the three spheres of government?
12: 15 – 13: 00 Controlling the execution of policy
programmes and projects
• Transitioning from planning to control
• Monitoring and controlling programme and project work
• Tracking quality, time use and expenditures
• The importance of effective communication
• Handling conflicts
13: 00 – 14: 00 Networking Lunch
14: 00 – 15: 00 PANEL DISCUSSION
Engaging Citizens in Achieving Results that Matter:
A Model for Effective 21st Century Governance
There is an increasing realization that government
alone can’t act successfully to tackle all of the
challenges in communities. A broader view of ‘
governance’ points to the need to involve government,
business and citizens as part of civil society together
to identify and respond to significant challenges.
A promising model for community governance in the
21st century involves increased citizen engagement,
the use of performance measurement and efforts to
improve government processes and performance.
Various combinations of these three improvement
efforts are described.
Six roles for citizens as partners in performance
measurement are described. Actively engaging citizens
in the performance measurement process and aligning
citizen engagement, performance measurement and
government improvement offers an avenue for helping
to make communities work better for their residents.
15: 00 – 15: 15 Mid-afternoon Break
15: 15 – 16: 00 Fixes that fail
• A problem symptom crying out for resolution
• Unintended consequences of the fix that actually
worsen performance or condition which we are
attempting to correct
• Relief is temporary and the symptom returns, often
worse than before
16: 00 – 16: 15 Chairperson’s Closing Remarks
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