PRESENTATION TO THE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

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• PRESENTATION TO THE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON
  SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
• Department of Social Development
• 9 March 2001

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REVIEW OF 2000/2001

• Focused on alignment of programmes with the Ten
  Point Plan
• Improving the quality, quantity and pace of
  service delivery
• Enhancing internal operations of the Department

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Allocation 2000/2001

• Amount voted R 348 706 000
• AdjustmentsEstimate R 34 559 000
• Total allocation R 383 265 000
• Projected expenditure R 381 017 000
• Savings R 2 248 000

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Allocation by Programmes

• 1 Administration R 38 862 000
• 2 Social Security R 145 347 000
• 3 Welfare Information
• Service R 1 836 000
• 4 S Welfare Services R 24 225 000
• 5 Social Development R 165 953 000
• 6 Population Unit R 6 723 000
• 7 Auxiliary Services R 319 000

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MTEF-National Department

• R000 increase
• 2000/01 348 706
• 2001/02 190 938 (45.3)
• 2002/03 233 788 22.4
• 2003/04 198 320 (15.1)
• Decreases reflect a reduced allocation for
  poverty relief and other special allocations

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MTEF Summary
Year Normal allocation R000 Special Allocation R000 Total Allocation R000
2001/2002 77 538 113 400 190 938
2002/2003 78 788 155 000 233 788
2003/2004 82 320 116 000 198 320
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Departmental budget 2001/02

• 2000/01 2001/02
• R 000 R000
• Administration 39 525 37 995
• Social Security, Policy
• and Planning 23 588 4 854
• Grant systems and
• administration 123 112 55 514
• Welfare Service
• Transformation 23 215 11 585
• Development Implement
• Support 167 036 72 378
• Population Development 6 789 8 612

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2001/02 Financial year

• Amount voted R 190 938 000
• Special Allocations
• Poverty Relief R 50 000 000
• Improvement of Social
• Security System R 26 000 000
• Disaster Relief Funds R 10 000 000
• Improvement of Social
• Grant payment System R 14 000 000
• HIV/AIDS R 13 400 000
• Total Special Allocations R 113 400 000

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2001/02 Financial year

• Amount voted R 190 938 000
• LessSpecial
• Allocations R 113 400 000
• Total Operation R 77 538 000
• Personnel allocation R 43 316 000
• Operational costs R 34 222 000

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Social Security

• Established Committee of Inquiry into
  Comprehensive Social Security to develop an
  affordable system of social protection. Work is
  in progress and will be completed by end July
  2001
• Reviewed regulations to Social Assistance Act to
  eliminate inconsistencies. Amendments to be
  forwarded to the Portfolio Committee for
  consideration

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Social Security

• Improving service delivery
• Reviewed contracts of pay contractors to develop
  minimum norms and standards
• Started development of comprehensive norms and
  standards for social security, due for completion
  in July 2001

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Social Security

• Developed plan to roll-out improvements at pay
  points
• Prioritise pay points with more than 500
  beneficiaries
• Help desks for all pay points to be staffed with
  competent officials equipped with laptop,
  cellphone, information, table and chair
• Training officials and volunteers in first aid
• Negotiating with SAPS to provide security
• Negotiations with local authorities for water and
  sanitation
• Temporary tents to provide shelter

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Social Security

• Information (brochures, radio) on grants and
  services disseminated
• Operations centres to provide on line information
  and referral service in National Department,
  Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Northern Cape
• Client service charter adopted by provincial
  social security officials
• Completed procedure manual for use by provincial
  social security officials

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Social Security

• Infrastructure Technological improvements
• Providing information and communication
  technology to rural areas in Eastern Cape,
  Mpumalanga and Northern Province
• All provinces received assistance to replace
  outdated equipment and upgrade equipment (747
  computers provided)
• Special equipment to provinces to generate
  letters to beneficiaries in relevant languages
• Started work on development of system to replace
  current SOCPEN system

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Progress on Child Support Grant
Province Children in payment of target
Eastern Cape 158 319 36.5
Free State 56 878 32.0
Gauteng 121 409 241.2
KwaZulu-Natal 246 253 71.5
Mpumalanga 89 616 76.9
Northern Cape 12 651 104.8
Northern Province 171 872 52.6
North West Province 89 867 50.8
Western Cape 46 291 86.0
Total 998 156
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Disaster Relief

• Disaster areas declared
• 1999 - 21 2000 38 2001 1
• Progress
• Received 174 000 claims
• Processed 129 000 claims
• Paid out R29 million
• Remaining claims to be paid by end March
• Propose amalgamation of Boards

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Social Security Priorities 2001/2002

• Options to Cabinet on Comprehensive Social
  Security
• Implement pay point and pay contractor norms and
  standards
• Finalise comprehensive norms and standards and
  audit of pay points
• Significant progress on replacement of SOCPEN

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Poverty Relief Programme
Allocation Number of Projects Funded
1998/99 R203 million 1936
1999/2000 R40 million
2000/2001 R120 million 606

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Poverty Relief Programme

• Implemented improvements to the PRP
• Improved planning and internal controls
• More varied system of disbursements, e.g.
  utilisation of Faith-based organisations
• Allocation for 2001/2002 is spread over three
  years of the MTEF
• Established a National Poverty Relief Project
  Office with a National Programme Manager

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Poverty Relief Programme

• Improved monitoring
• Regular reporting to MINMEC
• Assistance from UNDP to refine monitoring and
  evaluation system
• Visits to projects

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Poverty Relief Programme

• Conducted a mid-term assessment of 1638 projects
  and found
• Over half had good potential for sustainability
• 72 projects were in rural areas, 26 in urban
  areas and 2 in informal settlements
• 25 956 job opportunities created - 64 of jobs
  created benefited women, 24 benefited youth, 12
  benefited men and 6 benefited disabled
• Capacity building was needed for participants to
  ensure sustainability of projects

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Poverty Relief Programme

• Allocation for 2000/2001 R120 m
• Roll-over from 1999/2000 R 37.7 m
• Amount transferred to IDT R157.005 m
• Conditional grant to provincesfor Flagship
  projects R 695 000

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PRP Priorities for 2001/2002

• Implement Business plan for 2001/2002 Focus on
  HIV/AIDS, food security for children, youth
  development, economic empowerment of women in
  nodal points of the ISRDS and Urban Renewal
  Programme
• Consolidate projects of previous years
• Implement new monitoring tool and evaluation of
  PRP to document lessons learned

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HIV/AIDS

• Implementing National Integrated Plan for
  Children Infected and Affected by HIV/AIDS
  special allocation of R6.8 million, of which
  R5.62 million has been paid over to the 6
  participating provinces and the remainder
  committed to national department projects
• Utilised the Poverty Relief Funds to support
  home-based and community-based care programmes
  and HIV/AIDS awareness programmes total of
  R10.95 million

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HIV/AIDS

• Planned joint programme with Department of Health
  for a national roll-out of Home-Based and
  Community-Based care in 2001/2002
• Chair the National AIDS and Children Task Team,
  with work in progress on
• Rapid Appraisal on AIDS and children
• Costing of care
• Audit of legislation affecting children
• Directory of services to children

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HIV/AIDS

• Undertook fact-finding missions to Uganda and
  Botswana
• NPU commissioned research on HIV/AIDS and
  published the State of the SA Population Report
• Established HIV/AIDS Directorate in the
  department

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Priorities for 2001/2002

• Finalise Social Development Sector strategy
  response to HIV/AIDS
• Develop comprehensive database on all
  home-based/community-based projects
• Strengthen existing projects
• Roll-out new project sites
• Monitoring population trends

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Children and Youth

• Received R11.7 million from Netherlands for
  Transformation of Child Youth Care System.
  R10.812 million has been spent and the balance
  committed for expenditure by end March
• Grants totaling R13.9 million were allocated to
  provinces for one-stop early intervention services

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Children and Youth

• Progress made on establishing secure care
  facilities each province has at least one
  facility
• Participated in inter-departmental investigation
  into children awaiting trial provincial action
  plans developed and approved and implementation
  are being monitored

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Children and Youth

• Computerized child protection register is being
  piloted in 5 provinces
• Draft Child Protection strategy
• Draft Youth Development Strategy
• Drafting of new legislation in progress

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Women

• 16 Flagship projects for unemployed women
  implemented in provinces
• Total of R2 273 000 transferred to provinces
• 801 women and 913 children benefiting
• Established 100 Victim Empowerment Projects,
  majority providing 24 hour one-stop shop services

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Women

• Compiled Domestic Violence Resource Directory for
  police, courts and welfare offices
• Conducted survey of shelters to develop strategy
  for shelters for abused women
• Participating in development of intersectoral
  strategy for sexual offences

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Older Persons

• Committee of Inquiry into Abuse and Neglect of
  Older Persons
• Regulations to Aged Persons Amendment Act
  completed
• Draft policy and legislation on Status of Older
  Persons to replace Aged Persons Amendment Act
• Pilot on integrated community-based care

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Persons with disabilities

• Improve process of assessment for grant
  regulations to be amended
• Collaborating with Development Trust for Disabled
  People to pilot transformation workshops in all
  provinces

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Not-for Profit Organisations

• Registration of NPOs
• 5149 applications received (100 increase over
  1999)
• 4090 organisations registered
• 4120 financial statements received for 1999
• 1500 financial statements received for 2000

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Transformation of welfare services - Priorities
for 2001/2002

• Focus on transformation of welfare services
• Finalise review of Financing Policy
• Rolling plan of audits of subsidised institutions
• Finalise child protection policy
• Finalise youth development strategy
• Regulations on secure care

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Transformation of welfare services - Priorities
for 2001/2002

• New legislation on Older Persons and
  implementation of recommendations of Committee
• Transformation of protective workshops
• Policy on services to people with disabilities in
  rural areas
• Evaluate all pilot programmes to determine
  readiness for mainstreaming and to document
  lessons learned

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Transformation of welfare services - Priorities
for 2001/2002

• Support to Central Drug Authority and Advisory
  Board on Social Development
• Implement monitoring system for NPOs and provide
  capacity building to assist with compliance with
  NPO Act

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Population Development

• Published State of SA Population Report
• Commissioned review of national and provincial
  population functions
• Ongoing information dissemination and advocacy
  work

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Transformation of Department

• New structure developed
• New Performance Management System
• HRD plan for department
• Employment Equity Plan
• Range of human resource policies developed
• Implementing programme to improve financial
  management