Dear Colleagues and Friends I wish you all a happy New Year- a year of peace and success.

The year has begun in earnest with many demands and great expectations. It will take trust in the Lord, teamwork and effective planning if we are to achieve our child well-being outcomes on time and with excellence. A big Thank You and well done to the Crisis management standby teams who worked over the Christmas holidays, keeping watch of the operations during the holidays amid the staffing challenges. I am grateful to God for each one of you. I feel blessed and privileged to work in an environment where Christ is preached and where people daily desire to please the Lord. In World Vision, God has provided us a safe environment to grow in our faith. Take advantage of the weekly and daily opportunities provided to pray, study the Word of God and grow stronger together in the journey of faith. We need each other. Our Statement of Faith, stresses the importance of unity. No matter what denomination we come from, we are one in God. There is room for varied expressions of faith. Integration is essential if we are to realise transformational development. Integration is our mode of operation. It is how we deliver our services. Whenever we plan or write proposals we need to emphasise that our programs are managed and executed under one management. If we are not intentional in our efforts to integrate, we can easily drift towards a silo mentality and overlook the contribution of other sectors and programs. Interventions that we propose to improve child well-being should demonstrate integration at all stages of the project. Integration also applies at the National Office. WVSA is an integrated national office. We are one entity and deliver one message not competing messages and programs. In our plans let us remember that our goal is to empower others. We are facilitators. In World Vision we dont encourage hand-outs which may create dependency. Were committed to empower people. If

people can work, encourage them to invest in their future. Our development approach stresses the importance of working effectively to engage children, communities and local partners to bring long term sustainable change. As you are aware, in the past year it was observed with disappointment that we under-achieved in effective execution of our annual plans and utilisation of budgets (burn rate). Measures have been put in place to look into the following key areas: Performance Management, Planning and Monitoring influencing effective execution of our plans and budget targets. Remember to use the tools that have been developed like the (4DMatrix) to monitor your work every month. Develop your monitoring skills and ensure you check the work of staff to confirm that quality work is being done and any issue or delay is identified early. Lets remember that at the end of the day it is not only about utilising the money well but achieving impact on child wellbeing targets. It is only when we are able to achieve impact on child well-being that we can be proud of what we do. Monitoring of budget performance against the detailed implementation plan should be done in a way that brings glory to God. We are accountable to the children and communities that God has called us to serve. Procurement processes and internal control systems need to be adhered to at all times. We should not only aim at being compliance to the standards but ensure we are also minimising risks and aim to reach more children in fulfilling the WV vision and mission in South Africa. The organization will not hesitate to take a stand against any of us if we deliberately abuse this responsibility. Let me take this opportunity to welcome the new ND, Paula A Barnard, and thank you for the support you gave me in the two months I was here. When striving for excellence in this New Year, remember that the tone is always set at the top! Let us lead by example. God bless you Pauline Odunga (WVSA Interim National Director )

New ND for WV South Africa

Paula A Barnard has been appointed as the new National Director for World Vision South Africa with effect from 1 February. Paula is a South African citizen with diverse experience in management and marketing. She is a dynamic entrepreneur and leader with proven successes in creating and implementing successful business strategies as well as managing cross-functional teams and multi-million rand budgets. She has experience in managing projects in various sectors including retail, financial services and engineering, property development, public sector and IT/technology. She is currently CEO and owner of Thoughtfrontiers Consulting and a new company, DigiBox. Before venturing into running her own businesses, Paula worked at First National Bank (FNB) in various positions from 2003 to 2007. She started at FNB as a Programme Manager for Strategic Growth Segments (2003 2004), Strategy Analyst for Strategic Growth Segments (2004-2005), Business Strategic Marketer (2005 2006) and left the organisation as the Head of Strategic Marketing a position she held from 2006 2007. She also worked for Nedbank as Wholesale Product Owner in the Corporate Division (2002) and Commercial Division Project Manager (2001). In 1998-1999, Paula was an educator at Gauteng Department of Education (The Glen High Schools) where she taught physics, biology and chemistry as well as coached hockey, cricket and softball teams. She also worked for South African Defense Force in 1992 as Second Lieutenant, specializing in military intelligence. Paula holds a Masters in Business Administration and Botany & Zoology from North West University. Please welcome Paula on board and pray that her leadership and your support will continue to make WV South Africa a formidable service provider to children and communities. We are blessed to have her and her immense skills come to the organisation at a time when we are in the process of re-engineering our national resource development capacities.

PnC Update
This past year has indeed been turbulent, and I acknowledge that WVSA has indeed experienced a lot of change as a result of the restructuring and the transition in National Director leadership. I'm pleased to note that a new National Director has been appointed and will commence duty on 01 February 2013. More details regarding the appointee will follow. On a sad note, I wish to advise that Ma Marion Kauta's contract ends at the end of February 2013. I wish to thank her for her dedication and commitment to World Vision and the contribution she has made to the organisation during her role as Interim Integrated Programmes Director. Her faithfulness and loyalty will be greatly missed. We know that God has great plans for her life and we wish her well. I also wish to thank you for your patience as we are about to finalise the HAY Grading process. We are at the stage now, where information has been flowing between GC and ourselves and we hope to finalise the process soon. We again remind staff, due to financial constraints that we will not be able to remunerate staff according to the new grades, but hope to do so as budget becomes available in the future. I also want to thank you for continuing to submit your LDR's on time as this process is critical to the allocation of costs processNicola van Turha (PnC Director)

WV President, Kevin Jenkins, Addresses SA Staff

Kevin Jenkins, the World Vision President, addressed staff at the new premises in Randburg, Johannesburg, in December. Talking to the Southern African Regional Office, Food Programming and Management Group and World Vision South Africa National Office (WVSA) staff, the President said they should be innovative to meet new expectations and adapt to the changing operating environment. We have been innovative, for example with child sponsorship, the community development model and lately the Greenfields which is in Southern Africa, said Jenkins. If World Vision does not innovate meaningfully, we may not be able to meet the organisations goals and that is what Sponsorship 2.0 is about. We are trying to talk to our sponsors (in a new way) as the current system is too black and white where we send a photo via mail as it was in the 1970s and 1980s. Nobody under the age of 40 communicates that anymore. We have to bring the system to the 21st century. If we dont keep up we fall behind, said Mr Jenkins. Sponsorship 2.0 harnesses the benefits of the latest information and communication technology to redefine the interface between a sponsor and the sponsored child. He said donors, child sponsors and big grant funders required us to show a pattern of evide nce of impact, and as such World Vision had to be accountable to these donors, the communities served as well as the children. It was in this regard that World Vision had set targets to show the impact and develop a body of evidence showing impact as a result of the organizations programming. I have seen trust being built over the years, but we can still do muc h more. Without trust in the organization, there was tendency to rework and unnecessarily delay processes, he concluded.

Important Strategic Alignment Workshop Held

As part of aligning National Office strategy and programming at the ADP level, lead development facilitators and cluster team leaders attended a five day workshop in December. The workshop, the first of its kind in the region, was facilitated by the Design, Monitoring and Evaluation team led by Dr Christopher Phiri. The objective of the workshop was to make sure that the Area Development Programmes (ADPs) would align their indicators with those of the National Office and also with the child wellbeing targets. The ADPs will now report on the child wellbeing targets, said Dr Phiri. Dr Phiri added that the workshop also discussed how to develop a balanced scorecard and the ADPs had already started doing it.

World Vision President Visits Khauhelo ADP

World Vision President, Kevin Jenkins, visited Khauhelo Area Development Programme, about 60 kilometres out of Bloemfontein. The visit enabled the partnership president to interact with the communities served by World Vision South Africa. The president visited the ADP after attending the Africa Forum held here in South Africa. In Khauhelo, the President visited the Botshabelo dropin center was started by the ADP in 2006. He had a chance to visit two different households where two children, Ntswaki Pali (14) and Oratile Matlabe (11) live. The two are some of the children who use the drop in centre and they have also benefitted from the World Vision interventions in the area.

Recognising Hard Work

World Vision South Africa, the Southern African Regional Office (SARO) and FPMG took the opportunity during the president's visit to the new offices to recognise staff members who worked towards facilitating the movement from the old offices. There were two committees which made moving into the new offices as smooth as possible.

The full list of those who received the certificates: Building Committee : Robin Gengan, Bill McCormick, Ronald Bourque, Marg Banke, Staale Johansen, Nguquko Maso, Faith Pasi, Bradley Arthur, Wayne Hunter, Lebogang Mokoena, Gilbert Nkanyane Steering Committee : Christine Larson-Luhila, Lehlohonolo Chabeli, Solly Machaba, Walter Middleton, Thabani Maphosa, Martyn Foot, Monica van Wyk

Global Week of Action A Success

The Child Health Now campaign ran a very successful Global Week of Action at the end of last year. The initiative called upon the public to help raise awareness around issues of child and maternal health and to call governments to act against child mortality. More than 2 million people in more than 80 countries took part and raised their hands in support of the campaign. In South Africa, the campaign managed to reach more than 6000 supporters through various activities in ADPs, from our church partners and some corporates. Advocacy Advisor Stanley Maphosa, also had interviews with various print and broadcast media shedding more light on World Vision work and calling the public to stand up for child and maternal health. Following the success of this debut event, the CHN team is looking forward to next one in November 2013.