The Governance Support Programme (GSP) provided extensive support to the South African government in remedying structural shortcomings in the delivery of public services.
Target group was the predominantly poor and disadvantaged population of South Africa, in particular in the municipalities and provinces. The programme directly supported the latter in improving their service delivery capacity.
The Human Resources and Professionalisation project was a sub-component of the GSP.
The project objective was: “Two national administrative entities, two provincial administrations (Eastern Cape and Mpumalanga) and four municipalities have demonstrated improvements in human resource management, levels of professionalism and hum11-0120-000-NAM-EvalSanitan resources development.”
In addressing the overall Human Resource (HR) function, the project aimed at improved individual and institutional performance and the management of scarce skills within the process of professionalization of public sector employees.
Project activities were divided into the following four work lines:
1) Strengthen HR Units of selected municipalities, provincial and national departments in order to support the strategic and operational mandate of the institution and to manage the HR value-chain.
2) Develop, refine and implement systems, processes, instruments of HR units in selected institutions in order to improve performance, efficiency and productivity of employees and institutions.
3) Facilitate the development and implementation of processes, tools and strategies to enhance competence and skills and to implement the career of choice strategy in selected institutions.
4) Support capacity development initiatives of public sector professionalization institutions.