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Vision and Mission

Vision

The HSRC intends to serves as a knowledge hub for research-based solutions to inform human and social development in South Africa, the Africa continent and the rest of the world.

Mission

The mission of the HSRC is to be a research organisation that advances social sciences and humanities for public use.

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Objectives of the HSRC

Address developmental challenges,

Inform effective formulation, monitoring and evaluation,

Stimulate public debate,

Help build research capacity and infrastructure,

Foster research collaboration, networks and institutional linkages,

Respond to the needs of vulnerable and marginalised groups, and

Develop and make available data sets.

(Section 3, Act 17 of 2008)

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Some Specific Policy Mandates

Outcome 1 Improved quality of basic education

Outcome 2 A long and healthy life for all South Africans

Outcome 5 A skilled and capable workforce to support an inclusive growth path

Outcome 14 A diverse, social cohesive society with a common national identity

Strategic Intent: To have addressed key priorities facing South Africa through its research. To have generated new knowledge that helps us understand the changing human and social environment in which we live.

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Strategic outcome oriented goals

A – “Knowledge Advancement”: Advancing social sciences and humanities for public use by initiating, undertaking and fostering basic and applied research in human and social sciences, and geopolitical issues; stimulated public debate and disseminated research results.

D – “Contribution to Development and Social Progress in Africa”: Conducting research, analysing and publishing data that aims to address developmental challenges in South Africa and elsewhere in Africa and the rest of the world.

E – “Enhanced Skills”: Contribution to the development of a skilled and capable workforce in the Republic and elsewhere in Africa by providing developing research skills & capacity.

P – “Preserved data & knowledge”: Digitisation and preservation of data sets.

T – “Transformation”: Transformation at senior level to reflect the national demographic composition with respect to race and gender.

S – “Financial Sustainability”: Improvement and implementation of effective and efficient systems of financial management and good corporate governance; and ensuring sustainability of research funding through long-term research projects and longitudinal studies.

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Performance Highlights

Overall achievement 71% (Achieved 29 out of 41)Based on revised annual performance targets

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HSRC 2014/15 Performance against targetsPublications as at 31 March 2015

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Peer-reviewed journal articles Scholarly books

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1952 54Policy Briefs

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23Scholarly book chapters published

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HSRC 2013/14 Performance against targetsResearch Capacity Enhancement as at 31 March 2015

Masters’s Interns19

23PhD Interns

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Post Doctoral Interns21

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HSRC 2014/15 Performance against targetsTransformation as at 31 March 2015

African Senior Researchers54%

42%Female Senior Researchers

48%

36%

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HSRC 2014/15 Performance against targetsCollaboration, Public Dialogue & Data Preservation as at 31 March 2015

Active MoU’s47

35HSRC Seminars

Preserved Datasets

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HSRC 2014/15 Performance against targetsFinancial Sustainability as at 31 March 2015

Extra-Parliamentary Funding

48%

39%Multi-year grants52% 52%

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Governance: Ethics

Ethical leadership: Board approved HSRC Code of Ethics and the Code of Conduct and circulated to staff

The Anti-Corruption Strategy: approved by the board to provide a framework for the management of ethics risks across the HSRC

Enforced policy on conflict of interest

HSRC commemorates the international anti-corruption day on 9 December every year since 2010

Research ethics and integrity unit well established

Research Ethics Committee considered 70 proposals

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The governance of risk

As an organisation, the HSRC continues to review the risk management policy, which reflects the board’s stance on ERM related matters.

The Risk Management Committee & Audit and Risk Committee are governance structures in place, chaired by an independent specialist member and finance specialist Board member respectively.

Risk Assessments are conducted on an annual basis, laying a foundation to also identify emerging risks.

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Audit Outcomes

AGSA Audit for the HSRC has been completed and the following are major highlights of the audit outcomes:

UNQUALIFIED CLEAN Audit Opinion issued by the AGSA;

NO Audit Adjustments were processed to the AFS;

1 Audit Finding was raised by the AGSA (IT governance);

The internal control environment remained effective for the period under review.

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Analysis of Audit FindingsAudit Findings

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Financial Performance2014 Highlights vs 2013

External Income Performance Parliamentary Grant

Other Income

82% 82%101% 100%

104% 106%

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Financial PerformanceExpenses Budget / Actual

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Admin Expenses

Research Cost Staff Cost Other Opr. Expenses

Depreciation

Budget 60 119 93 533 225 394 41 056 10 665

Actual 50 560 73 598 230 868 25 992 8692

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Income generation over the years

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Publishing & Knowledge Dissemination

Internationally accredited journal articles counted for ADEPTS: 121

International Accredited journal articles not counted for ADEPTS: 20 Journal Articles -Peer-reviewed (SA & Others) Not counted for ADEPTS: 32

Journal Articles – Non-Peer-reviewed not counted for ADEPTS: 57

Scholarly books counted for ADEPTS: 16

Non-Scholarly not counted for ADEPTS: 5

Scholarly chapters in books counted for ADEPTS: 49

Non-scholarly chapters in books not counted for ADEPTS: 8 Client and other research reports counted for ADEPTS: 52

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Research to Influence Policy

Strategic Research Issues Raised by the Minister as 2015/16 Challenges

Closer alignment of the HSRC’s Strategic Plan to national priorities :

The South African National HIV Behavioural and Health Survey – (SABSSM) I, II, III, IV;

Trends in Mathematics and Science Survey – TIMSS;

Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) looking at Operation Phakisa;

Research on Economic activities in township areas, and more specifically on the impact of big retailers moving into these areas on consumers and the owners of small ‘spaza’ shops:

An assessments of the impact of expenditures by the Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SEFA);

An assessment of whether municipal by-laws are responsive to the local conditions confronting the informal sector in townships areas; and

A tracking of the implementation of the National Informal Business Upliftment Strategy (NIBUS).

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Focus on Humanities2005 to 2015

Convergence of the research agenda/activities of the HSRC and the NIHSS The NIHSS catalytic projects on Lineages of Freedom, Heritage Hubs and Hidden Voices; and the HSRC’s

programme of work being done under the auspices of the Liberation Studies Institute and in conjunction with HSRC Press and RIA (projects on heritage routes, ‘Voices of Liberation’ book series, and on Military Veterans).

The NIHSS catalytic project on Indigenous Languages and Humanities Concept Formation and the research work on African languages, schooling and multilingualism being done in the HSRC’s Education and Skills Development (ESD) research programme.

In particular the research undertaken in the HSD research programme focuses on: The social conditions and identity markers that shape people’s life opportunities;

Social discourse, movements and policies that contribute to change,

How diversity in gender, culture, language and identity shape social cohesion; and

Historical legacies of racial and ethnic division.

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Focus on Humanities2005 to 2015

Examples of HSRC research programmes are mainstreaming humanities-centred research questions in their projects

A recent example is the project funded by the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development in which the HSRC in partnership with the University of Fort Hare were requested to assess the impact of the decisions of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court of Appeal on the transformation of society.

The on-going project focuses on socio-economic rights and to what extent court decisions have changed the relevant jurisprudence, how these decisions have been implemented and whether access to the courts (and particularly the Constitutional Court) can be made easier for poor applicants and litigants. Perspectives from human rights, law, history and indigenous knowledge were used in the project.

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Collaboration with Research institutions2005 to 2015

Collaborations between the HSRC and universities

The HSRC collaborates with universities, university research centres, researchers based in universities via active MOU’s and cooperation agreements

HSRC researcher trainees are MA and PhD students registered in universities

Establishment of joint research consortia for large research projects,

Joint appointments and staff exchanges,

Supervision and examination of post-graduate students,

Joint training workshops,

Research dissemination seminars, and;

Secondary analysis of databases.

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Collaboration with Research institutions2005 to 2015

The HSRC interfaces and collaborates with specific South African Research Chairs and Centres of Excellence:

Recent examples of such collaborations include the simultaneous appointment of Linda Richter, a Distinguished Research Specialist in the HSRC, as head of the CoE on Human Development at Wits/UKZN;

The collaboration agreement that is being negotiated between CeSTII and the CoE in Scientometrics and Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Policy at Stellenbosch/TUT;

The participation of various South African Research Chairs Workshops and the Human and Social Dynamics Research Seminars hosted by the Research use & Impact Assessment (RIA) unit in the HSRC for example with:

Social Change – UFH;

Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies – UWC;

Poverty and Inequality Research – UCT;

Land Reform & Democracy in SA – UCT.

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Collaboration with Research institutions2005 to 2015

Active MoU Map of the HSRC

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AISA incorporation into HSRC update

Monthly meetings of an Africa focus subcommittee take place to share information on current and envisaged Africa-focus research and networking activities within and across the organisation. Based upon identified principles and imperatives in the study of Africa in Africa and the African Union’s Agenda 2063, the subcommittee is developing the first draft of the proposed new research agenda for AISA in the HSRC.

Meetings with senior representatives of the NRF and the CSIR to identify the topical, institutional and geographical focus of our current research projects and collaboration on the African continent. Based upon this mapping and subsequent efforts at synergy and concentrated effort, future areas of research collaboration in and regarding Africa are being identified and taken forward.

On-going discussions with counterpart organisations with a continental or regional focus, for instance the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) on opportunities for research collaborations and on theory and method in the study of Africa in Africa.

Consultations with the DST on its multilateral and bilateral research agenda and collaborations on the African continent to ensure alignment and synergies between priorities and initiatives.

A search for a Executive Director for AISA in the HSRC is on-going.

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Conclusion

HSRC is a high performing and well governed institution, with the Board providing management with strategic direction;

Continues to achieve the majority of annual targets;

Good absorptive capacity and managed finances very well;

Continued to become more of a global player in knowledge production and dissemination.

We want to thank the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Science and Technology

We want to thank the Minister, the DG and all DST staff for their continued support.

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