EXTENSION RECOVERY PLAN PROGRES REPORT REGENT HOTEL EAST LONDON 4 & 5 DECEMBER 2008.

EXTENSION RECOVERY PLANPROGRES REPORT

REGENT HOTEL

EAST LONDON

4 & 5 DECEMBER 2008

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Farmer Support and Development

•Food Security

•Farmer Settlement

•Farmer Support Services

•Farm Worker Development

FSD STRUCTURE

FSD in the WC •Admin support staff - 27 •ACW’s - 25•ADO’s (Technicians) - 22•SMS’s (Specialists) - 20•District Managers - 05 & 1 Acting•Sub-programme Managers - 03•Programme Manager - 01•52 offices across•TOTAL - 103

CHALLENGES FACING EXT. WC

• There is no model, approach and strategy (revise)

• Some officials not trained in extension

• Ext transforming into project management

• Participatory approach – farmers, land affairs, waters affairs, social dev

Cont......

• Ext norms & standards vs curriculums offers - colleges of agric relevance

• Bench marking post levels & norms and standard

• Office space – budget of public works, municipalities

• Standardisation of post levels

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Strategies Forward

• Strong relationship with CIAT• Current linkages – Protein Research

Foundation & Potato SA• Potential linkages – Fruit, ARC, MPO,

RPO, Agri’s• Secondment of staff will be explored• Demonstration Training Units (DTU’s)• Progammed extension approach

Strategies continue…

• Specialised short courses on different commodities

• On farm practices • Exposure to conservation agriculture• Soft skills training

Specific Goals and objectives

• Up skilling of ACW’s (grade 12)• Phase out ACW’s – in line with norms

and standards of extension• ADO’s – 2nd priority• Advisors to Senior advisors• Specialists• Appoint admin support – CASP/LARP/LRAD

Recruit & Retain of staff

• Human Capital Development Strategy

• Mentorship programme for new staff

• Bursaries to study – contract agreement

• Exposure to study tours

• Interns from CIAT etc.

• Linkages with commodity group

Recruitment

• 2008-09 - 24 positions • Already advertised – 29/08/2008• 4 already appointed • Interviews for 20 positions – last week• Appointments – December 2008 –

February 2009• 2009-10 - 13 positions

Up-skilling

• 2008/9 – 17 Extension staff part time

• 2009/10 –10 ACW’s full time if admitted

• 2010/11 – 10 + 25 full/part time

• Bursary Cost = R 20 000/staff member

Soft skills training

• 2008/09 – 12 (3 COURSE)

• 2009/10 – 27

• 2010/11 – 45

• 7 areas of compulsory training (batho pele, protocol, client service)

Technical skills training

• 2008/09 – 24

• 2009/10 - 48

• 2010/11 - 48

ICT + Training

• 2008/09 - 60

• 2009/10 - 70

• 2010/11 - 75

ERP BUDGET• BUDGET – R 8.054 million

• 32% ICT – R 2.577m

• 58% Recruitment - R 4.672m

• 10% Training and Bursaries – R 805 000

Expenditure & commitments • ERP expenditure: R395,331.72

• Estimation = 2 m

• R 1.5million – salaries (jan – march)

• R 1.156million – 8 x LDV’s

• Bursaries – R 800 000

• Instruments and equipment – R 560 000

• Knowledge & info programmes – R4 mil

Challenges

• Difficulty to appoint contract position

• Building grant into equitable share

• Support of other program

• High staff over – 11%

• Extension data – computerised revolutionary system of support – smart pen pilot

RECOMMENDATIONS

• Provide space for provinces based on challenges and to accounting thereto.

• Formula of distribution, disadvantaging progressive smaller provinces

• Dialogue between national and institutions of higher learning

Cont.....

• Permanent allocation of the grant

Thank you

• NDIYABULELA

• I THANK YOU

• DANKIE