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PART B: PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

CONDITIONAL GRANTS

4. Early Childhood Development Conditional Grant: KwaZulu-Natal DSD

Department/ Municipality to whom Kwa-Zulu Natal Provincial Department of Social Development
the grant has been transferred

Reasons for the funds unspent by the entity The reasons for the funds that were not spent are indicated as follows:

Repurposed Maintenance
• Process of procurement of PPE to support unfunded and unregistered ECD centres delayed and has not yet been finalised.

Administration Allocation:
• Under expenditure due to limitations due to Covid-19 pandemic and related decisions due to lockdown and reprioritisation of budget.
• The following activities; catering for meetings, travel and accommodation and site visits were not conducted during the financial year.

Subsidy Allocation:
• Under expenditure against the 2020/21 budget allocation was due to delays in capturing of budget at district level and payment of
subsidies as the result of challenges caused by Covid-19 such as the limited number of staff in offices at a particular time, closing and opening
of offices now and again for decontamination.

Additional Allocation:
• Presidential stimulation package processes delayed and resulted to the late payment of the grant.

Monitoring mechanism by the transferring The Department uses monthly, quarterly and in-year monitoring reports.
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