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PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
















                                                                                             Reasons for
                          Actual       Deviation                                             revisions to
 Audited   Audited   Planned   Achievement  from planned                                     the Outputs/
 Actual   Actual   Annual   2023/2024   target to Actual                                     Output
 Performance  Performance   Target  until date of   Achievement                              indicators/
 No.  Outcome  Output  No.   Output indicator  2021/2022  2022/2023  2023/2024  re-tabling*  2023/2024  Reasons for deviations  Annual Targets
 Programme 1 – Administration
 1.1  To ensure good   Clean audit opinion  1.1.1  A clean audit opinion    Clean Audit  Clean Audit  Clean Audit  Clean Audit  No revision
 governance, effective   on the SAMRC from the
 administration   Auditor-General
 and compliance
 with government
 regulations
 1.2  To promote the   Efficient expenditure  1.2.1  Percentage of the government   16%  17%  20%  19%  1%  Overperformance because of our efficient and   No revision
 organisation’s   of government   allocated SAMRC budget    effective processes, and directing more financial
 administrative   allocated budget  spent on administration  resources towards the mandate of the SAMRC
 efficiency to maximise                               to conduct and funding research.
 the funds available
 for research
 Programme 2 – Core Research
 2.1  To produce and   Published journal   2.1.1  Number of accepted and   1 169  1 455  700  1294  594  Compliance to the publication's standard   No revision
 promote scientific   articles, book   published journal articles,    operating procedures, mobilisation of additional
 excellence and    chapters and    book chapters and books    (financial) resources and stakeholders’
 the reputation    books  by SAMRC affiliated and     engagements increased outputs. At the time
 of South African    funded authors                   of setting target, it was not expected that
 health research                                      SAMRC will receive additional resources
                                                      to conduct and fund more research.
 Published journal   2.1.2  Number of accepted    265  445  180  373  193  Compliance with the publications standard   No revision
 articles by SAMRC   and published journal articles   operating procedures, mobilisation of additional
 grant-holders  by SAMRC grant-holders                (financial) resources and stakeholders’
 with acknowledgement                                 engagements increased outputs. At the time
 of the SAMRC                                         of setting target, it was not expected that
                                                      SAMRC will receive additional resources
                                                      to conduct and fund more research.
 2.2  To provide leadership   Published   2.2.1  Number of accepted and   637  775  300  646  346  Compliance to the publications standard   No revision
 in the generation    journal articles    published journal articles    operating procedures, mobilization of additional
 of new knowledge    with the first or   where the first and/or    (financial) resources and stakeholders’
 in health  last author  last author is affiliated    engagements increased outputs. At the time
 to the SAMRC                                         of setting target, it was not expected that
                                                      SAMRC will receive temporary resources
                                                      to conduct and fund more research.
 2.3  To provide funding    Research grants   2.3.1  Number of research grants   152  174  160  221  61  Receipt of additional financial resources by    No revision
 for the conduct of   awarded  awarded by the SAMRC   the SAMRC led to awarding of more research
 health research                                      grants than projected.
















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