Annual Performance Plan 2025/26

This Annual Performance Plan (APP) outlines the work of the Centre for Public Service Innovation (CPSI) for the 2025/26 Financial Year. It guides the organisation in its work to implement its programmes and projects for the year in question.

The CPSI is a national government component, and it is located within the Ministry of Public Service and Administration. As a result, these programmes and projects that are contained in this APP, are in essence the CPSI’s contribution towards supporting the Public Service and Administration Portfolio in its strategic mandate to build an effective and efficient public sector.

Priority No. 3 in the 2024–2029 Medium-term Developmental Plan (MTDP), under the 7th Administration, calls for the building of a capable, ethical and developmental state.

The public service is essentially the heartbeat of a capable, ethical developmental state that can build an inclusive economy, create jobs and eliminate poverty to fulfil the NDP promise of a better life for all.

Adding to that, and most critically, as President Ramaphosa explained: “A fundamental feature of such a state is a public service that is professional, and competent. Such a public service needs people with skills, experience, foresight and integrity, who must work in the best interests of the people".

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Background
This Annual Performance Plan (APP) provides an outline of the work of the Centre for Public Service Innovation for the Financial year 2025/26. This includes all the various programmes and activities, or key deliverables laid out for the organisation to achieve, together with dates of completion as well as milestones for each one of these, which the CPSI has to comply with in partial fulfilment of its 2025–2030 Strategic Plan.

The 2025/26 Financial Year of government is very significant in our planning, as it is the first of the five years covered in the 2025–2030 Strategic Plan of the CPSI.

The CPSI’s strategic position and key responsibilities
The CPSI is a national government component located within the Public Service and Administration Portfolio. In accordance with its 2025–2030 multi-year Strategic Plan referred to above, the CPSI strategically supports the portfolio in fulfilling its mandate to contribute towards the building of an efficient, effective and developmentoriented public service using innovation. This entails, as outlined in the organisation’s mandate, entrenching and inculcating the culture and practice of innovation in the public service to improve its service delivery, performance and productivity. In terms of its vision, the CPSI works towards a solution-focused, effective and efficient public service through innovation.

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