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PART B: PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

CONDITIONAL GRANTS

8. Early Childhood Development Conditional Grant: North West Province

Department/ Municipality to whom North West 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,
Actual outputs achieved Subsidy
• 12 863 children benefitted from the subsidy grant.
• 861 benefitted from the top-up portion of the subsidy grant.
Maintenance
• Infrastructure projects for the 2020/21 financial year were deferred to the following year due to Covid-19.
• 236 ECD centres were provided hygiene and sanitation support packages.
Administration
• Four personnel were successfully appointed on contract.
Amount per amended DORA (R’000) 110 605
Amount transferred (R’000) 110 605
Reasons if amount as per DORA not transferred N/A
Amount spent by the department/ municipality (R’000) 40 674
Reasons for the funds unspent by the entity The reasons for the funds that were not spent are indicated as follows:
• ECD centres were closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
• Exclusion of nutrition on the subsidy payment in line with Clause 14.2.1 of the SLA due to absence of child attendance.
• Delays in procurement of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) due to impact of Covid-19 on availability of personnel to process
requests for services.
• Payment batches and approvals from the Central Applications Office for the Presidential ECD Employment Stimulus Relief Fund
received 7 days before the financial system closed.
Monitoring mechanism by the transferring department The Department uses monthly, quarterly and in-year monitoring reports.

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