ADJUSTED ESTIMATES OF NATIONAL EXPENDITURE:

2007

Composition of adjusted estimates

An additional amount of R556 166 000 has been included in the Adjustment Estimate for this Department:

1. Roll over of funds

2. Shifting of funds from other departments

3. Salary adjustment

4. Unforeseen and unavoidable (cabinet)

5. Self financing

Rollover

• The Treasury has approved that an unspent amount of R314 million can be rolled over from the previous financial year to the current financial year. This amount is in respect of the following.

R’000

• Construction of the De Hoop Dam 260 000

• Dam Safety rehabilitation programme 40 000

• Staff to be transferred to munis 14 000

• 314 000

Shifting of funds from other depts

1. With the compilation of the budget for the current year funds for the Working on Fire Programme were transferred to DPLG.

2. The Department was later asked to spend these funds (R14m). DPLG had therefore to transfer the funds back to DWAF

Salary adjustments

• R 21 439 000 as additional amount allocated to DWAF to accommodate the higher costs of the 2007 public service salary adjustment

Details of requests made to Cabinet

• Current draught R57 000 000

• Management of comm forestry R44 897 000

• Working for water programme R 59 800 000

• Working for fire R30 000 000

Recommended to cabinet: Unforeseen/Unavoidable approved

Remedial works in the Usutu River 8 000 000

Repairs to river flow gauging stations 6 000 000

Working for Water programme 32 000 000

West Coast District Municipal Area 1 050 000

Funding for the South African drought 2007 14 870 000

161 920 000 

Self financing

• Donation to the department R160 000

• Operational cost: LowveldtsR44 897 000

• 2008 MTEF BUDGET SUBMISSIONS

2008 MTEF Bids Made2008-09 2009-10 2010-11

Working for Water, on fire, for wetlands

110 160 400

National Bulk Infrastructure

160 200 1 000

1 Million trees 20 25 30

Forestry Charter 30 35 40

Masibambane III: 127 140 342

Additional capacity

30 60 80

Total 477 620 1 892

Working for water deliverables

• Person days of work: The following outputs are anticipated:– 2008-09 R472.3m 2,100,000 person days– 2009-10 R521.2m 2,200,000– 2010-11 R665.9m 2,620,000

• Hectares cleared: The clearing of hectares of invasive alien plants, and the essential follow-up work to ensure that they remain cleared. Projections for the MTEF period:– 2008-09 120,000 ha initial 460,000 ha follow-up – 2009-10 120,000 500.000– 2010-11 150,000 620,000

Working on Fire- Deliverables

The following core activities are:– Support for setting up and maintaining Fire Protection

Associations– Promotion of advocacy and awareness– Optimal use of detection, dispatch and co-ordination– Ground operations– Aerial support– Incident Command System– Capacity building and transformation– Monitoring and Evaluation– Market development

Working on wetlands- deliverable

The key outputs and deliverables :– Focus on planning of priority wetlands to be managed by the land-

owners.– Intense advocacy regarding the value of wetland services for land-

owners and communities.– Provision of technical support for the management of the wetlands.– Support for the use of exited WfWetlands and other similar contract

teams by land-owners.– Use of rates to provide incentives and disincentives relating to land-

use practices and wetland conservation and rehabilitation.– Monitoring and Evaluation.– Development of long-term strategy for balancing the provision of

assistance with the use of incentives and disincentives, advocacy and best management practices.

Working for woodlands

The programme offers the following outputs– Employment and diversification of skills– Fulfilling policy and international obligations– Ensuring cross-departmental buy-in for policy

and legal obligations and thereby striving towards a well monitored and sustainable rural landscape.

– Sustainable natural resource management and

– Restore natural resources and enhance ecosystem goods and services delivery

National Bulk water

2008-09 R’m

2009-10 R’m

2010-11 R’m

Limpopo (Olifants) 70 100 220 Gauteng (Sedibeng)

50 75 120

Mpumalanga 50 Northern cape 50 Eastern cape 200 Free State 50 Western Cape 60 KZN 200 North West 50 Design costs 40 25 160 200 1 000

Trees for food- Deliverables

2010 Greening and trees for food programme

• Development of the tress for food project plan

• Development of provincial greening plans• Development and implementation of

provincial tree distribution and planting programmes

Forestry BEEE Charter

• Charter Council

• Constitution and governance structure for the council

• Council business plan, budget and SLA

• Admin support and infrastructure

• Overall forest development

• Research and capacity building

• Progress reporting systems and procedures

Replacement of Donor funds

• Masibambane III is funded by donors to address the following:– Water and sanitation supply– Water sector support– Water and sanitation– Institutional supportDonor funds cannot be a permanent sources of

funding for core functions of DWAFAdditional projects are on the hold until funding

is guaranteed

Additional Human Capital

• The following key functions require additional capacity– Institutional oversight– Local government support– Regulatory function– Forestry– Risk management– Finance– Monitoring and evaluation– Women empowerment

Additional capacity- Costs

  2008-09 2009-10 2010-11

Internal audit 4,711,672.00 5,017,930.68 5,292,621.16

Finance Branch 5,362,677.00 18,622,937.99 23,441,068.21

Regions 4,538,238.50 13,843,429.13 18,377,731.68

Forestry 609,060.00 2,044,219.58 2,156,123.80

Corporate Services 1,360,718.00 3,287,007.48 3,466,944.13

Branch Regions 8,832,402.00 11,908,994.01 21,008,434.00

Institutional Oversight 4,725,847.00 5,761,884.30 6,431,557.49

Total 30,140,614.50 60,486,403.17 80,174,480.47

2010 FIFA WORLD CUP

• DWAF is developing a business pan for funding• DWAF has a support role to host cities- water

supply and sanitation• NT will be approached for Financial to

– Improve existing municipal supply

– Improve sanitation networks and treatment works

– Public toilet in host cities

– Greening of host cities

– Water quality for host cities

Questions for clarity