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PART B: PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

           REPORT ON THE INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC



          External interventions in response to Covid-19 Pandemic


          Programme       Intervention         Geographic        No. of                    Disaggregation   Total budget   Budget    Contribution   Immediate
                                               location (Province/   beneficiaries (where possible)  of Beneficiaries   allocation per   spent   to the Outputs   outcomes
                                               District/local                              (where possible)  intervention   per      in the APP
                                               municipality)                                                (R’000)       intervention  (where
                                               (where possible)                                                                      applicable)
          Programme 4:  Preparations and       National and    36 040 ECD programmes were   21 714 registered   N/A      N/A         Reopening of   Compliance of
          Welfare      facilitation of ECD     Provincial      reopened.                   ECD centres and                           ECD            ECD services to
          Services     re-opening                              86 NGOs supported provinces   14 326                                  Programmes     Covid-19
          Policy                                               during this process.        unregistered were                         facilitated    requirements.
          Development                                          Online verification and      reopened                                                 Children being
          and                                                  monitoring forms were utilised                                                       able to receive
          Implementati                                         for verification;                                                                     the services
          on Support                                            •  20 892 verified                                                                   and be
                                                                •  15 003 complied,                                                                 stimulated.
                                                                •  14 234 opened and
                                                                •  446 118 children attended
                                                                reopened ECD Centres.




                       ECD Stimulus Package    National        R28 194 million was received,   N/A          R496 million  R29 million  N/A          Retention of
                       was approved and                        which translated to 116 102                               Provincial                 ECD workforce.
                       allocated for                           employees who benefited from                               budget                     Continuation of
                       implementation during                   the grant.                                                                           provision of
                       the 2020/21 financial year                                                                                                    ECD services.

                       Covid-19 Emergency      National        N/A                         N/A              No budget    N/A         N/A            No immediate
                       Response Plan.                                                                                                               outcomes as it
                                                                                                                                                    was not
                                                                                                                                                    approved yet.













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