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Training and capacity development
The South African case study
J de Beer
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Mandate and contextMandate and context• Statistics Act, 6 of 1999
• Purpose of the Acto Advance planning, production, analysis, documentation, storage, dissemination and
use of official and other statisticso Provide for coordination with other organs of state (section 5, 7 & 14)o Provide for cooperation between producers of official statistics
• Role players in the Acto Minister in the Presidency responsible for National Planning: Approval of planso Statistician-General: Producer, Coordinator and Certificationo Statistics Council: Advisoryo Heads of Organs of State: Producer
• Vision: Your leading partner in quality statistics
• Mission: To lead and partner in statistical production systems for evidence based decisions
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Why must we train?Why must we train?• Statistics South Africa
o Staff mostly 1st degree from University, limited work experience Hard issues: Statistics, Economics, Demography, Methodology Soft issues: Management, Leadership, Finance, Labour relations
o Theory vs Practice o Vacancy rate higho Improve quality of statistics and service delivery
• Other organs of stateo Data compilation
Health, Education, Crime, Home Affairs
o Data analysis Health, Education, Crime, Home Affairs Plus Economic development, Planning, Water, Housing etc
o SASQAF
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How are we training?How are we training?• Stats SA employees
o On the job training Continuous by work areas Importance of metadata
o In-house courses IT, soft skills, statistical training SADC survey methodology training E-Learning
o Bursarieso Foreign study
Tanzania: EASTC – Certificate and Diploma Uganda: SSAE – Post graduate diploma, degree, Master’s degree Ivory Coast: ENSEA – Certificate, diploma, degree (French!)
• School leaverso Bursaries (local and foreign universities)
• Internship programmeo 1 year; focused training and job-rotation
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The need for a training InstituteThe need for a training Institute• Require capacity to train “government”, not only Stats SA
• Focus on members of SANSS
• Courses must be accredited – Quality Council for Trade and Occupations
• Various modalities o Internal instituteo Partner with 1 or more University
• Certificate in official statisticso No relevant qualification; school leaver (mathematics required)o 1 yr, 5 modules
• Diploma in official statisticso Has relevant qualification, working in field of statisticso 2yr, 10 modules
• Custom modules available – ad hoc basis
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Progress with training InstituteProgress with training Institute• Certificate
o Modules developedo 1st pilot group (internal staff) 2011o External students in 2013
• Diplomao Modules partly developedo Discussions with accredited universitieso First group in 2014
• Fundingo HCD = 2% of Personnel costs => R39mo Training institute additional R10 million
"It is easier to educate a man when he wants to learn."
(Nelson Mandela)
