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DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

3.7 SWOT ANALYSIS

Operationally, DSD has identified several strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that would need to be
addressed for it to operate effectively and efficiently and deliver on the impact that it seeks to achieve.

STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES

• Pockets of excellence • Inability to quantify services and impact (baseline increases
• Well-grounded political leadership motivation)
• Extensive footprint • No shared vision / Strategic direction
• SOCPEN System (data on social protection) • Lack of continuity in political / admin transition
• Existing good policies and programmes • No clear service delivery model
• Extensive skills and experience • Ineffective prevention programmes e.g. Youth
• GBV Command Centre • Poor enforcement and implementation of Acts e.g. Children’s Act
• Clean audits • No Community Development policy
• Capacitated workforce • Reactive to social ills
• Capable employees • Resistance to change
• Increase in the number of social workers • Lack of Change Management
• Ineffective M & E
• Poor systems management
• Silo mentality
• Poor implementation of IGR
• Poor oversight and governance (SASSA and NDA)
• Inconsistent coordination mechanisms
• Leadership vacancies
• Inefficient organisational structure
• Low absorption of social workers
• Ineffective utilisation of staff
• Trust deficit
• Poor performance and consequence management

OPPORTUNITIES THREATS

Free Higher Education • Economic instability
Working agreements with neighbouring • DSD at risk of being consumed by other Departments e.g. ECD
countries program
Legalising Cannabis (Hemp, medicine) • Lack of consensus among social partners e.g. NEDLAC
NPOs becoming specialised • Outsourcing of social service provision
Political will to support DSD mandate • Legislation with various Departments not harmonious
Foreign investments (Economic Stimulus • Technical recession
package) • Ineffective funding models
Active civil society • Sustainability of social grants
Reduced cost of technology for systems • Escalating social ills in communities
development • Rising poverty and unemployment
• Failing education system
• Increase in demand for resources (ineffective border
management)
• Lack of visionary leadership
• Labour unrests
• Service delivery protests

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