FEATURE
Celebrating
innovation in the public sector Maggie Moonsamy and Jongizizwe Ngwenya, who received the Public Sector Innovator of the Year Award for the Gauteng Depar tment of Health’s Central Chronic Medication Dispensar y and Distribution solution.
“Instead of being reduced to mere glitz and glamour as it is often sadly the case, the Public Sector Innovation Awards should be viewed as a critical platform to unearth, demonstrate, showcase and reward innovation in the public sector,” she said.
Boosting service delivery Run by the Centre for Public Service Innovation (CPSI), which falls under the Department of Public Service and Administration, the awards showcase
P
innovation, and provides ublic servants’ out-
recently at the 19th annual
and Administration, Dr
an opportunity to replicate
standing innovation
Public Sector Innovation
Chana Pilane-Majake,
and mainstream practi-
Awards.
lauded the innovative
cal solutions to common
spirit of public servants
challenges.
projects and solu-
tions, created to improve
Speaking at the event
service delivery chal-
at Birchwood Hotel in
who defied the norm in
lenges encountered at the
Ekurhuleni, the Deputy
pursuit of solutions to ser-
ment money from being
coalface, were honoured
Minister of Public Service
vice delivery challenges.
wastefully spent on find-
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