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PART A: SAMRC MANDATE
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Table 5. MTDP 2024-2029 Strategic Priorities and SAMRC contribution

SAMRC SAMRC
MTDP STRATEGIC MTDP GOALS AND SAMRC STRATEGIC CONTRIBUTION TO
PRIORITIES OUTCOMES OUTCOME OBJECTIVE MTDP PRIORITY

1. Drive inclusive • Increased employment • Less SP Programmes • Improvement
growth and job and work opportunities; expenditure on 1 and 4 in financial
creation • Accelerated growth of administration management
strategic industrial and • Provide capability
labour-intensive sectors; funding for • Increased
• Enabling environment for capacity investment on R&D
investment and improved development • Internships and
competitiveness through creating job
structural reforms; opportunities
• Increased infrastructure • Supporting
investment, access and health innovation
efficiency; and technology
• Improved energy development
security and a just energy • Compliance to
transition; labour legislations
• Increased trade and • Implementation of
investment; relevant HR policies
• A dynamic science, and procedures
technology and innovation • Transformation
ecosystem for growth; practices
• Supportive and sustainable • Employment
economic policy Equity reporting as
environment; and required
• Economic transformation
and equitable inclusion of
women, youth and persons
with disabilities for a just
society.
2. Reduce poverty • Reduced poverty and SAMRC SP Programme 1 • GEN-S Programme
and tackle the high improved livelihoods; operations as a Career
cost of living • Improved coverage of Planning
social protection; programme in
• Improved access to support of learners
affordable and quality making informed
healthcare; career decisions
• Improved education • Embedded in the
outcomes and skills; SAMRC mandate
• Skills for the economy; and • Partnerships with
• Social cohesion and all forms of media
nation-building platforms
• Partnerships with
community-based
organisations,
community advisory
boards etc
• Representation
of community
members in the
research ethics
committees

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