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PART B: PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
PERFORMANCE BY PROGRAMME

Services to Persons with Disabilities (Originally tabled APP)

Outcome Empowered, resilient individuals, families and sustainable communities
Outputs Output indicator Actual Achievement Actual Achievement Annual target Actual Outputs Reasons for deviation Reasons for revision to
2018/2019 2019/2020 2020/21 2020/2021 from 2020/21 target the annual target

Guidelines on Guidelines on N/A The target was not achieved. Guidelines on The target was not Discussions and Respite Care
Respite Care Respite Care However, the following Respite care achieved. signing of the project Guidelines will be
Services to Services to submissions and work was services to However, two rural contract between DSD consulted and updated
Families and Families and done during the reporting Families and provinces have and JICA that was to through virtual
Persons with Persons with period; Persons with been selected as happen between meetings but not
Disabilities Disabilities • A submission providing Disabilities piloted study sites for the March-April 2020 piloted in two
implemented clarity and motivation on in two provinces development and could not be facilitated provinces due to set
issues raised by EXCO, and finalised implementation of due to the onset of the directives on Covid-19
including a distinction the Respite Care Covid-19 pandemic
between this sectoral Policy Programme for and prohibition cross
that will inform much needed Families and country travelling
legislation and the Children with
transversal White Paper on Disabilities.
the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities, was developed
and approved by the Minister.
• Cabinet Memorandum and
the SEIAS Report that will
accompany the tabling of the
Policy at the Social Cluster
and Cabinet were drafted.
The SEIAS Report is awaiting
approval from DPME.
The Costing Report on the
Policy was finalised.

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