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HALEGRATZ MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE AND ITS OPERATING SYSTEM
(2011-11-03) Masipa, Rabohwa Phineas
Despite heavy infusion of health care resources in many countries in the last 20 years or so, there is still a lack of health care in most areas. Similar experience is not uncommon in several countries, Australia being one of them, even though the causes were somewhat different (www.ruralhealth.org.au/hh/htm) Five main reasons have been identified as the cause of this situation, namely:  Focus on the construction of facilities rather than the provision of services.  Over-sophisticated training, which took place largely in hospitals.  Poor and un-equitable deployment of health staff  A “top-down” health care delivery system.  Unbalanced health budget allocations. In the light of these problems concerning the existing health care system, South Africa is now evolving more “effective” ways of improving health in the communities. It now remains to be seen how successful the government will be in redressing in inequities of the past.
CIVIL SOCIETY PARTICIPATION IN THE
(2011-06-10) Saili, Gregory Chitambo
Beginning in the late 1990’s, the Sector Wide Approach or SWAp has become an important part of development cooperation in the social sectors, particularly in health, education, and agriculture. Over the years, although the approach largely focused on government-donor collaboration there are indications that the approach could support the participation of civil society organisations. However, there is limited research regarding the extent to which the SWAp can support the participation of civil society organisations. Therefore, the primary purpose of this exploratory study is to gain a better understanding of the health sector government-donor platform (SWAp) as a mechanism for facilitating effective civil society participation in policy processes. Although no universally accepted definition of SWAp exists, the term refers to an approach in development cooperation largely representing a shift from a project-based approach to a programmatic focus in policy implementation. The study finds that the level of participation in the SWAp is limited to service-delivery issues whereas the advocacy and policy influence roles are marginal. Another important finding is that the SWAp structure and processes provide opportunities for civil society participation. However, these are underutilised by civil society organisations. Further, the report argues that the SWAp typifies a policy network. There appears to be limited recognition in literature and practice that the SWAp is a political structure with inherent challenges akin to policy networks. Given this scenario, it appears that this will remain the trend given the lack of coherence and intracoordination among civil society organisations in the policy network – the SWAp.
Human factors impeding strategy
(2011-05-31) Naidoo, Colin
In the current global economy successful implementation of a formulated strategy is essential to gain competitive advantage. Success in business is manifested more in the ability to implement ideas and strategies rapidly and effectively than in planning itself. Previous studies have identified that for all the energy and resources invested in the pursuit of the perfect strategy, little effort is directed towards implementation. As a result most strategies stumble in the implementation phase, regardless of merit. Due to the importance of effective strategy implementation, this research attempted to identify the human impediments to strategy implementation. It was proposed that identification of the inhibitors would result in proactive management of these human factors and ultimately result in the successful implementation of a formulated strategy. This research reports a case study which focuses on a private hospital group: Life Healthcare. The first objective of this research was to identify the human impediments to successful strategy implementation in Life Healthcare by using the Delphi technique. The second objective was to compare the findings of this research with previously conducted research. The third objective was to rank the impediments identified in the study, in order of importance. Data was gathered from the management in two rounds of the study. The first round entailed the use of a single open-ended questionnaire. The feedback from round 1 was used to construct a structured questionnaire, which was Likert based. This structured questionnaire was utilized in the second round of the study. Six notional categories of impeding factors were identified; strategy-, management-, employee, implementation models, approach and strategic control-, organisational- and knowledge and information sharing factors. The research findings confirmed the existence of the aforementioned impediment factors in Life Healthcare, as well as supported the notional categories identified in the literature. - ii - These findings were interpreted and discussed in the context of existing literature and a number of implications have been drawn. Employee factors, management factors, strategy factors and knowledge and information sharing factors were emphasized throughout the analysis of the findings. Conclusions and recommendations were drawn for Life Healthcare in light of these results.
The readiness of Gauteng Department of Health to institutionalise Monitoring and Evaluation
(2011-04-19) Mtshali, Sipho Solomon
Monitoring and Evaluation is a planning tool that is used to review progress made, the challenges experienced as well as take corrective measures where necessary to assess the value of development programmes. The first step towards designing, building and sustaining a Results-Based M&E System is to conduct readiness assessment. The purpose of this descriptive study was to evaluate the Gauteng Department of Health readiness to institutionalise M&E. The findings indicated that the department’s strategy was not translated into desired results of programmes implementation, the resources allocation was inadequate, the management infrastructure was not satisfactory, and department’s corporate culture and ability to monitor progress was not ready for the results focus

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