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DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

OUTCOME KEY RISK RISK MITIGATION
As a result of the volume and nature of activities undertaken • Review of business processes and internal controls in the SCM environment
in the DSD Supply Chain Management (SCM) system, there is a • Automation of systems (RFQs, Invoices tracking and Assets Management)
chance of non- compliance to financial policies and prescripts • Implementation of prior year AG-SA findings
which may lead to a negative Auditor General-SA finding • Prioritise the filling of vacancies in the SCM environment
• Improve daily quality assurance processes in SCM
• Conduct Internal Audits in the SCM environment to reduce the risk of non-
compliance
As a result of the DSD social work bursary programmes inability • Identify areas of work within the DSD sector that requires additional social
to absorb social work graduates and a lack of a government workers and reprioritize budgets to employ them
wide plan, there is a chance that social work graduates may • Engage with relevant sector Departments to identify potential areas of
remain unemployed which may lead to wasteful expenditure employment opportunities that can be created for social workers
and a rise in social ills • Develop an implementation plan and monitor its implementation
As a result of silo systems within DSD and government, there • Ringfence budget for the full development of a National Social Protection
is a lack of an integrated management information system on Information System (NSPIS) within the cluster
social protection beneficiaries across government which may • Implement the convergence tool for integration of services throughout the
result in the inability to track comprehensive interventions cluster
provided by government. • Define cluster cyber security strategy
• Standardise technology for the cluster
As a result of negative media coverage on DSD, there is a chance • Develop, implement and review the DSD communication strategy
of reputational damage to DSD and the sector/portfolio which • Explore the option of procuring a media buying and marketing agency to
may result in adverse public perceptions of DSD. communicate the services of work that DSD is doing in communities.
• Invest in brand management initiatives.

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