Commission study shows only 47% alignment between Budget and NDP !!!!!

A preliminary analysis conducted by South Africa’s second National Planning Commission (NPC) of the current alignment between the country’s Budget and the National Development Plan (NDP) shows there to be only a 47% correlation. Nevertheless, Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe, who is NPC chairperson, insisted at the weekend that the plan, which was adopted in late 2012, remained the country’s long-term ‘blue print’ and was being integrated into the work of departments. Speaking at the first media engagement since the appointment of the new, 26-member NPC in September, Radebe said the 14 goals outlined in the plan had been embedded into the five-year Medium-Term Strategic Framework and that there would be ongoing monitoring and evaluation of implementation by departments. There was, nevertheless, ongoing scepticism over the implementation of the NDP, which observers had noted was competing not only with other departmental imperatives and agendas, but also other plans, such as the New Growth Path.

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