Test learner’s understanding of:
Assessment-Assignment
1) Current specific efforts of the municipality to address poverty from a policy and budgetary point of view.
2) The environment in which policy-making takes place with particular emphasis on the factors which significantly impinge on policy-making on poverty initiatives in the municipality.
Unit Standard Purpose
1. This unit standard is intended for political executives, municipal managers and strategic executive managers in South African local government. This unit standard contributes to the development of policy analysis and the reviewing of skills amongst political executives, strategic executive managers and other role players contributing to the development of relevant legislation as well as policy affecting municipal financial management. It is in this context that this study intends to provide details of South African legislation and policy affecting municipal financial management. This unit standard will provide a clear indication of the wide range of techniques of sound framework management in local government.
2. It is also a specific objective of this discourse to situate an understanding of the municipal officials and executives within a broader gamut of different models of constitutional forms, structures and organs of national government. Specific legislative instruments responsible for the promotion of sound financial management in local government, factors influencing policymaking environment and basic values of good governance and ethical behaviour will also be articulated. As a consequence, this unit standard will add value and enhance competence of municipal officials who are determined to cultivate a culture of good governance in the public sector.
Unit Standard Content
1. Apply the techniques of sound financial management in local government
2. Identify and describe the key elements in the structure of public-policy making in South Africa, the connections and power relations between them.
3. Interpret the elements of initiatives taken through various pieces of legislation to promote sound financial management in local government.
4. Demonstrate through analysis, an understanding of the environment in which policy-making takes place with particular emphasis on factors that significantly impinge on policy-making
5. Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of good governance and ethical behaviour within setting legislation governing municipal borrowing.
Learning Tasks And Activities
Unit One: Techniques of Sound Financial Management in Local Government
Aim Of Study Unit
The aim of this study unit is to introduce learners to the techniques of sound financial management in local government.
Unit Two: Key Elements In The Structure Of Publicpolicy Making In South Africa
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