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Executive Governance and Integration
The Branch -
The Department’s Deputy Information Officer function is also provided for in this Branch. |
Functional units include: Organisation Development: to enable improvements in organisational effectiveness and service delivery through planned employee engagement interventions within departments People Training and Empowerment: to ensure people development through training and relevant learning programmes, developing workplace skills plans and facilitating the awarding of bursaries to servicing employees in the 11 Corporate Services Centre departments, as well as internships People Management Practices: to attract and retain talent through the development of a people management policy, workforce planning and analytics and transactional excellence in respect of people management practices |
The Ce-I also coordinates corporate IT governance, provides IT support services, and manages the transversal ICT infrastructure, the rollout of public and organisational broadband and the development of provincial-wide and department-specific IT applications, systems and digital services. The Branch enables public access to government information and services by managing and maintaining citizen contact channels. These include the WCG Contact and Walk-in centres, email services, social media, the official website, and more than 1 000 public WiFi hotspots. Through its Cape Access Programme, Ce-I equips and maintains 74 e-Centres across the province where citizens can access free internet, computers and digital skills training. Functional units include: Strategic ICT Services: to conduct research and development and coordinate corporate IT governance and the digital government agenda Government Information Technology Office: to manage the internal IT service desk and distributed computing environment, develop department-specific IT solutions and provide IT service management Connected Government and Infrastructure Services: to provide connectivity to all WCG sites, the WCG’s transversal ICT infrastructure, and public WiFi hotspots Transversal Application Services: to development transversal applications, including WCG mobile platform applications and digital platforms for citizen engagement Project Office: to manage ICT projects in the WCG, including project frameworks and standards |
Functional units include: Legislation: to provide for the legislative drafting requirements of the provincial Executive Litigation: to provide a legal support service in respect of litigation, working in conjunction with the Office of the State Attorney Legal Advisory and Governance Services: to provide corporate legal advisory services to members of the Executive and provincial departments The work of the Branch contributes to upholding the constitutional values and principles of public administration and the rule of law, focused on the progressive realisation of socioeconomic rights and social justice as outlined in the Bill of Rights. |
Functional units include: Enterprise Risk Management: to improve governance through embedded risk management within departments Internal Audit: to provide management with independent and objective assurance and consulting services designed to add value and improve the operations of the WCG Provincial Forensic Services: to improve WCG governance through the prevention of and response to fraud and corruption Corporate Communication: to ensure that the strategic goals of the WCG are communicated to the people of the Western Cape, and provide a communication advisory and support service to departments and the provincial Executive |
Please refer to our organogram, or Annual Performance Plan for a more detailed overview of each Branch. Get to know our Branch Heads. |