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PART B: PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

             CONDITIONAL GRANTS


            6. Early Childhood Development Conditional Grant: Mpumalanga DSD

           Department/ Municipality to whom              Mpumalanga Provincial Department of Social Development
           the grant has been transferred


           Purpose of the grant                            •   To increase the number of children from poor communities accessing subsidised ECD services through centre-based ECD services.
                                                           •   To support ECD providers delivering an ECD programme to meet requirements for registration.
                                                           •   To pilot the construction of new low cost ECD centres.
                                                           •   To provide support to ECD services workforce as part of the Presidential Employment Initiative.
                                                           •   To support ECD providers delivering an ECD programme to meet the basic health and safety requirements for registration.


           Expected outputs of the grant                Subsidy
                                                            •   To increase the number of poor children benefitting from the ECD Subsidy for 264 days per annum.
                                                            •   Increase in the number of ECD workforce benefitting from the Presidential employment stimulus package (unemployment risk
                                                                    support and top up payment to take on additional duties as compliance support officers).
                                                        Maintenance.
                                                            •   To upgrade and increase the number of conditionally registered ECD centres to full registration.
                                                            •   To increase the number of ECD facilities provided with standard hygiene and sanitation support package.

           Amount per amended DORA (R’000)               123 244
           Amount transferred   (R’000)                  123 244
           Reasons if amount as per DORA not transferred  N/A
           Amount spent by the department/ municipality (R’000)  82 861
                                                         The reasons for the funds that were not spent are indicated as follows:


                                                         Presidential employment stimulus package
                                                         The process for verification of applications received for the employment stimulus took longer than anticipated and payment started late.
           Reasons for the funds unspent by the entity   Some batches were received towards the end of the financial year.

                                                         Administration:
                                                         The reason for unspent funds was as a result of vacant positions only being filled during the second quarter of the financial year.


                                                         Maintenance
                                                         The contractor could not continue with the scope of work due to cash flow problems.

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



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