WCG DoTP APP 2023/2024

Data and technology as cross-cutting enablers

WHAT DOES THE PROVINCIAL DATA OFFICE HAVE TO OFFER?

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Provincial data and evidence

The PDO is positioning data and evidence as enabling a central pathway for decision-making. The PDO has become the central coordinator for data producers, users and suppliers in driving a common purpose towards building a WCG data ecosystem that supports strategic decision-making Some of the interventions in this space relate to the adoption of Responsive Evidence Services (RES) which goes beyond standard evaluations in collaboration with research partners that are externally funded. The department also commenced with a reporting reform journey, in collaboration with Provincial Treasury, that delivers integrated quarterly performance data (financial/non-financial) towards an annual WCG performance report card and incrementally building a master performance dataset of WCG performance data. In being acknowledged as a data-led organisation, the department is central in driving a common purpose to embed a culture for decision making and a culture for greater accountability. Insights gleaned through data and evidence will promote service delivery that leads to improved changes in society.

• Indicator system that guides us in knowing if we are making a difference in what we are measuring and what targets we are chasing • Data quality and standards that helps improve the use of data at various levels • Data Analytics that helps deliver data insights to make decisions on changing societies • Surveys that help us generate and reuse data from other credible sources • Evaluations to help us make judgments on what we are doing right and what we can learn • Data Ethics that guides our data practices from data acquisition to data sharing • Data and Evidence Landscape that help us understand data gaps, what data can be accessed and where • Data advocacy that creates awareness of what data products are available and the access platforms

Over the medium-term, data and evidence-based decision-making will be improved, and integrated planning, monitoring, and reporting will be enabled through the optimum use of data. This is for better decision making to improve execution and accountability across departments and incrementally across municipalities. In driving a culture for decision-making and accountability, the following interventions will be accelerated: • Increase access to and use of quality data for planning, monitoring, and reporting and in so doing, embed a data-driven culture in the WCG; • Transform how we collaborate in the selection of service delivery and governance indicators and the application of the associated data for monitoring and reporting; • Lead the coordination of non-financial performance data for integration with financial performance data; • Increase citizen access to relevant and timely WCG performance data via the provincial website; • Establishing the WCG Data Portal as the authoritative single point of truth (SPOT);

• Optimise and integrate data collection tools;

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DOTP ANNUAL PERFORMANCE PLAN FOR 2023/2024