Department Of Public Works.Co.Za

The National Department of Public Works is committed to facilitating delivery by other departments by providing accommodation and property management services and meeting the objectives of poverty alleviation and transformation. In 2003 the Department formulated the following new vision, mission and value statements to demonstrate the Department’s and its employees’ serious commitment to Government’s vision of a better life for all the country’s citizens:

Mission

The Department of Public Works (DPW) aims to promote the government’s objectives of economic development, good governance and rising living standards and prosperity by providing and managing the accommodation, infrastructure needs of national departments, by leading the national Expanded Public Works Programme and transformation of the construction and property industries. In pursuance of this objective the Department will endeavour to:

• Efficiently manage the asset life cycle of immovable assets under the Department’s custodianship;
• Provide expert advice to all three spheres of Government and parastatals on immovable assets;
• Contribute to the national goals of job creation and poverty alleviation through programme management, leading and directing of public works programmes nationally, of which the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) forms an integral part; and
• Provides strategic leadership to the Construction and Property Industries.
• The Department of Public Works (DPW) is mandated to be the custodian and portfolio manager of the national government’s immovable assets. Following the operationalisation of the Property Management Trading Entity in 2015/16, the department’s role will now be policy formulation, coordination, regulation and oversight relating to the provision of accommodation and expert built environment services to client departments at the national government level; as well as, through the Property Management Trading Entity, the planning, acquiring, managing and disposing of immovable assets in the department’s custody. The DPW is further mandated to coordinate and provide strategic leadership in job creation initiatives through the implementation of the EPWP. Public works are constitutionally designated as a concurrent function exercised by both the national and provincial spheres of Government