Core Mandate Business Divisions

Research, Innovation, Impact Support and Advancement

The core purpose of Research, Innovation, Impact Support and Advancement (RIISA) is to support, promote, and advance research and human capacity development, through funding to facilitate the creation of knowledge, innovation and development in all fields of science and technology, including humanities, social sciences and indigenous knowledge.

Business Advancement

The Business Advancement division provides an overarching custodianship role for national, regional and global collaborations and partnerships that cut across the NRF and the NSI; conceptualises new partnerships and programmes with nontraditional partners of the NRF...

Corporate Services

The Corporate Services division constitutes the People and Culture (Human Capital), Corporate Communications and Facilities Management units. The division provides critical business enablement services of people management; a supportive, conducive and transforming organisational culture and people relations...

Finance and Supply Chain

The Finance and Supply Chain division led through the Office of the CFO, provides cross-cutting shared services across the NRF. The function draws its mandate from the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA, Act 1 of 1999, as amended), Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act, 2000 (PPPFA)...

Digital Transformation

The Digital Transformation division provides support service functions and systemic enterprise-wide coordination of acquisition and management of technologies, systems, governance infrastructure, and business intelligence required to enhance organisational capabilities to deliver on its mandate and strategic direction.

National Research Infrastructure Platforms

The purpose of Programme 4 is to provide leadingedge research infrastructure platforms to support the production of world-class knowledge and innovation outputs and facilitate human capacity development and science engagement.