Report on Monitoring National Development Plan Indicators and Targets_December 2022

The National Development Plan’s (NDP) apex priorities are the reduction of unemployment, poverty, and inequality. Achieving the apex priorities requires inclusive economic growth, strengthening human capabilities and social protection, building a capable and developmental state, rallying stakeholders and social partners into a social compact, and strong leadership in implementing the Plan. The NDP further states that an effective and capable state in South Africa can be achieved through greater interdepartmental co-ordination between the three constitutional spheres of government— local, provincial, and national. Furthermore, successful implementation of the NDP requires a whole-of-society approach. Figure 1: Three spheres of government for what needs to be done in the immediate term. The aim of the Framework is to contribute to a national planning system that can be used in all spheres of government, social partners, key sectors, and actors in society by building on the work of government as it leads implementation. The proposed Framework, however, is not complete without a measuring tool, beyond the implementation guiding principles. The NPC has, therefore, proposed the development of an NDP Implementation Tracker, which can serve as an NDP implementation dashboard to determine the progress made with set targets, selected goals, objectives, and indicators. Since it is not possible to focus on everything, the tool will track indicators that best measure some of the goals and objectives of the NDP, subject to the availability of data for indicators. Where targets have not been set, the NPC will indicate progress and the need to ensure target setting in future. The ten-year review of the NDP in 2022 will have an evaluative approach, especially to ensure measurement of the impact made in the decade since the NDP was adopted.