Neftaly Online Course SAQA 11516699717

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1:
Integrate the various management functions into a cohesive strategy for effective and efficient service delivery.
Contextualise and understand the specialist skills required of local government managers in managing resources for service delivery.
Analyse and contextualise an overview of the various methods and techniques that can be utilised to positively impact the implementation of local government policies and procedures.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 2:
Apply normative principles to ensure sound ethical and professional practices in local government.
Distinguish between integrated development planning and strategic services planning.
Identify and implement the immediate economic development initiatives of the community in terms of the social responsibility of local government.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 3:
Comprehend the interdependency of the various resources as a prerequisite for effective and effective local government management.
Apply quantitative techniques to enhance decision-making, problem solving and forecasting in the local government domain.
Direct and co-ordinate local government projects on time, within costs and to specification.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 4:
Explore, analyse, formulate and implement local government policy within the context of the machinery of local government.
Interpret and apply local government legislation and communicate effectively with local communities and other stakeholders.
Analyse, understand and disseminate information pertaining to the processes and procedures pertaining to the operation of local government to local communities.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 5:
Understand the budgeting and budgetary procedures relevant to local government.
Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the principles of accountability, responsibility, fairness and reasonableness in all financial transactions pertaining to local government.
Demonstrate an understanding of the role of financial management in local government.
Prepare income and expenditure statements and draw up a local government budget.
Monitor a local government’s expenditure against its approved budget.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 6:
Apply, discuss, compare and relate the strategic role of the human resources function as an integral, essential organisational input and contributor to overall effectiveness and efficiency.
Display a clear understanding of the interface between the employee and the municipality.
Explain the inter-dependence of the local social development, labour relations functions and human resources management.

Integrated Assessment:
The competencies will be assessed using a combination of formal and informal learning, self-learning and work-based application. The practical, applied, foundational and reflective competencies demonstrated for the group of assessment criteria in this qualification must prove that the whole competence is more than the sum of the parts of the competencies.

The Institution will conduct diagnostic and formative assessment. Formative and other practical assessments will also take place in the work place, if applicable. The learner will also be able to assess him or herself and determine readiness for a summative assessment.

During integrated assessments the assessor will make use of formative and summative assessment methods and will assess combinations of practical, applied, foundational and reflective competencies. The following assessment methods will be used:
Time-constrained written examinations.
Course work Evaluations.
Continuous Evaluations.
Practical Evaluations.

Integrated assessment at this level of qualification provides an opportunity for learners to show that they are able to integrate concepts, ideas and actions across modules to achieve competence that is grounded and coherent in relation to the purpose of the qualification.