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• PRESENTATION TO THE AD-HOC COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL
  DEVELOPMENT
• BY
• DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
• 2004/05 FINANCIAL YEARVOTE 19
• 28 MAY 2004

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AGENDA

• Vision and Mission
• Social Development Priorities
• Programme Structure
• Overview Key Developments
• Challenges
• Programme Performance
• - Branch Integrated Development
• - Branch Social Security
• Financial overview
• Conclusion

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STRATEGIC OVERVIEWMr. V Madonsela

• PART 1

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VISION

• A caring and integrated system of social
  development services that facilitates human
  development and improves the quality of life

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MISSION

• To ensure the provision of comprehensive social
  protection services against vulnerability and
  poverty within the constitutional and legislative
  framework, and create an enabling environment for
  sustainable development. The department further
  aims to deliver integrated, sustainable and
  quality services in partnership with all those
  committed to building a caring society

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SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES OVER MTEF YEARS

• Improvement of access and the quality of Social
  Security Service
• Establishment of the Social Security Agency
• Establishment of an Inspectorate for the Social
  Security Function
• Comprehensive Child Care Legislation
• Expanded Public Works Program
• Welfare Service Transformation
• Improve services to Older Persons
• Strengthening of Families
• Partnerships and Cooperative Governance
• HIV and AIDS
• Poverty Reduction and Integrated Development

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PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

• 2004/05
• P1 Administration
• P2 Social Security, Policy Planning
• P3Grant Systems and Administration
• Manage social grants and disaster relief through
  the development of norms and standards, and
  improve compliance, with particular focus on
  improving application processing time and fraud
  reduction
• P4Social Security Service Delivery Assurance
• P5 Welfare Service Transformation
• P6 Children, Families and Youth Development
• P7 Poverty Alleviation (note name change)
• P8 HIV and AIDS
• P9 Population and Development

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OVERVIEW KEY DEVELOPMENTS

• Expansion of the social security safety net
• Extension of Child Support Grant
• Increased awareness more coverage
• Institutional reform of the social security
  service delivery system
• Implementation of norms standards
• Establishment of Social Security Agency
• Improvement of information and payment system
• Transformation of social welfare services
• Development of new finance policy
• Improvement of conditions of services for social
  workers
• Implementation of a staff retention strategy

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OVERVIEW KEY DEVELOPMENTS

• Legislative developments
• Social Assistance Bill
• Social security Agency Bill
• Childrens Bill
• Older Persons Bill

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SECTOR CHALLENGES

• Overriding challenges of poverty
• Realisation of socio-economic rights
• Putting children first
• Prioritising the vulnerable groups
• Demographic challenges
• Improving social assistance
• Limited/restricted coverage
• Pressures on other welfare services
• Capacity constraints
• Infrastructure needs
• Fragmented legal framework

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PROGRAMME PERFORMANCE

• BRANCH INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT
• Mr. V Madonsela
• Director General

PART 2
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WELFARE SERVICES TRANSFORMATION

• AIM
• Welfare service transformation facilitates the
  transformation of social welfare services to
  deliver effective and appropriate social welfare
  services to individuals, families and
  communities.

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MEASURABLE OBJECTIVE

• To develop and facilitate implementation and
  monitoring of social welfare service policies,
  strategies, programmes that empower and support
  vulnerable individuals, households and
  communities, including older persons, persons
  with disabilities and mitigate the impact of
  substance abuse.

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RECENT OUTPUTS FOR 2003/4

• Service Standards
• Discussion document on the policy on financial
  awards to service provided approved by MINMEC
• Salaries of social workers in government reviewed
  and approved by MINMEC
• Capacity development programme for social service
  professionals developed and due for
  implementation
• Preliminary costing of NGOs funded by the
  department completed

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RECENT OUTPUTS FOR 2003/4

• Older Persons
• Audit of old age homes finalised
• Proposed legislation on Older persons has been
  introduced to Parliament
• Recommendations of the Inter-Ministerial
  Committee have been integrated in the legislation
• Preliminary costing of the legislation was done
• Internal investigation done on Frail Care
  services

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RECENT OUTPUTS FOR 2003/4

• Services to People with Disabilities
• 30 of workshops transformed
• An audit on existing services has been completed
  and a draft resource directory is being developed
• Consultation with other departments initiated

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RECENT OUTPUTS FOR 2003/4

• Prevention of Substance Abuse and Rehabilitation
• Policy framework developed and consulted
• Draft minimum standards for in-patient treatment
  centres developed and consulted in all provinces
• A best practice model for a youth treatment
  centre has been documented
• Ke Moja awareness campaign was launched in Cape
  Town and will be rolled out in KwaZulu-Natal and
  Gauteng
• CDA secretariat in place and functional.

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POVERTY ALLEVIATION

• AIM
• Developing, co-ordinating and managing
  sustainable income-generating projects
  developing strategies and programmes which
  contribute to the well-being and social
  integration of vulnerable individuals, groups and
  communities and developing policies and
  programmes to create an enabling environment for
  non-profit organisations. The programme also
  transfers funds to the National Development
  Agency and monitors it.

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POVERTY ALLEVIATION cont..

• MEASURABLE OBJECTIVES
• Design and monitor policies, strategies and
  programmes for poverty reduction, community
  development, and register and support non-profit
  organisations.

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POVERTY ALLEVIATION cont..

• RECENT OUTPUTS
• The Monitoring, Support and evaluation aspect of
  the Poverty Alleviation Programme is on a
  sustainable path of improvement, this is due to
  the expanded role of the IDT in the programme,
  which has been taken beyond disbursement of funds
  to projects, to include direct implementation for
  12 months ending in September 2004.
• The Poverty Alleviation Programme has 408
  projects funded with the allocation currently
  being managed, the target is to have 416 projects
  by the end of June. The allocation currently
  being managed is the remainder of the R222
  million allocated over the last MTEF period
  (2001/0202/0303/04).
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POVERTY ALLEVIATION cont..

• RECENT OUTPUTS
• The improved monitoring capacity allows us to
  report that the numbers of people benefiting per
  objective of the Poverty Alleviation Programme
  since 2001/02 to date have increased as follows
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• The improvement in the case of HIV and Aids
  projects was from 2 667 to12 263 people
• The improvement in the number of young people
  participating in youth development projects was
  from 1 045 to 2 471
• The improvement in the number of people
  participating in womens development co -
  operatives was from 1 279 to 2 788,

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POVERTY ALLEVIATION cont..

• RECENT OUTPUTS
• Community based dual purpose centers improved the
  number of the people benefiting from 3 413 to 13
  604, and
• Food security projects also improved by
  increasing the number of people benefiting from
  projects from 10 692 to 13 604.
• The Programme has been very successful with its
  targeting mechanisms for the Poverty Alleviation
  Programme, at the beginning of the three-year
  programme approach for Poverty Relief, the
  Programme successfully identified projects to be
  funded in the country, and met the minimum target
  of having 30 of projects in the nodes of the
  ISRDP. The Department has allocated over 60 of
  funds to the three provinces with the most severe
  levels of Poverty i.e. Eastern Cape, Kwazulu
  Natal and Limpopo

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POVERTY ALLEVIATION cont..

• MEDIUM TERM OUTPUTS AND TARGETS
• The Poverty Alleviation Programme has the
  following critical outputs for the medium term,
  and these are
• Developing an exit plan for each funded project
  under the Poverty Relief Programme first draft
  by May 2005
• Conducting a Study on the Impact the Poverty
  Relief Programme of the Department has had on
  communities first draft by 2005 and
• Developing an Anti Poverty Strategy for the
  Department first draft by March 2005.

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POVERTY ALLEVIATION cont..

• Grant-in Kind
• An amount of R 71 million was allocated to the
  Department in the 2003/04 financial year as the
  final allocation of this programme
• R 43 million of the above allocation is in the
  process of disbursement to the 416 projects,
  which will be completed during the 2004/05
  financial year.

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HIV AND AIDS

• AIM
• Develop policies, strategies and programmes
  aimed at mitigating the social impact of HIV and
  Aids.

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HIV AND AIDS cont..

• MEASURABLE OBJECTIVES
• to develop policy, programs and guidelines for
  implementation of HIV and AIDS intervention.
• to deliver comprehensive social development
  services to vulnerable groups focussing on HIV
  and AIDS infected and affected (children, Youth,
  Older persons, PWAs and their families affected
  by HIV/AIDS).
• to ensure that services are rendered in a
  coordinated manner to vulnerable groups
• to monitor and evaluate the implementation of HIV
  and AIDS home community based care programs,
• Facilitate establishment of a workplace HIV/AIDS
  program and
• To built capacity of NGO to render services for
  HIV and AIDS programs.

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HIV AND AIDS cont..

• RECENT OUTPUTS
• Provision of child and family welfare services,
  psychosocial support and statutory services.
• Provision of different options of alternative
  care for children infected and affected by
  HIV/AIDS
• Provision of nutritional support and addressing
  other material and psychosocial needs of people
  living with AIDS
• Strengthening and supporting the network of
  community based and not for profit organizations
  to facilitate the rollout of home community based
  care and support
• Monitor, evaluate and undertake research to
  explore successful methods of care and support to
  people who are infected and affected by HIV and
  AIDS

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HIV AND AIDS cont..

• RECENT OUTPUTS
• Home/Community Based Care and Support Programme
• For the past three years the focus of the
  Department as far as this programme is concerned
  has been the protection of children who are
  infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. An amount of
  R6, 8 million from the National Integrated Plan
  strategy was allocated to the Department of
  Social Development for implementation of
  community-home based care and support in
  2000/2001, R13,3 million in 2001/2 and
  R48million in 2002/3. The implementation started
  with the establishment of six sites in 2000 and
  these were increased to 314 in 2002/3.
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HIV AND AIDS cont..

• RECENT OUTPUTS
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• The Directorate HIV and AIDS became fully
  operational during 2002/3 and has been elevated
  to a Chief Directorate level from 2003/4. This
  has facilitated the improved management of
  scaling up of the home community based care and
  support programme in the provinces and proper
  management of the amounts allocated to this
  programme.

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HIV AND AIDS cont..

• Conditional Grants
• Increase in the number of identified children
  infected and affected by HIV/AIDS
• - 61,582 orphaned and vulnerable children were
  identified and received appropriate services
• - 9,787 child headed households were identified
  and received appropriate services
• Provision of essential material assistance to
  identified children and families
• - 144 703 families were provided with food
  parcels and 20 945 families were provided with
  special protein products.

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HIV AND AIDS cont..

• Conditional Grants
• Provision of alternative care to vulnerable
  children
• - 6375 children were referred for foster care
  placement
• 50 percent of caregivers identified from
  communities, NGOs, CBOs and FBOs, families and
  volunteers to be capacitated through training and
  support
•   - 4 215 caregivers were trained on Home
  Community Based Care and Support programme
• - 5 988 caregivers are receiving stipend
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HIV AND AIDS cont..

• Conditional Grants
• Provision of counseling and support services to
  children and families
• - 144 703 were assisted with counseling ,care
  and support
• - 144 support groups were established and
  supported
• - 550 families received bereavement support and
  burials
• Increase in the number of co-coordinating
  structures and partnership for management and
  maintenance of social welfare to children
  infected and affected by HIV/AIDS
•   - 169 income generating projects were linked to
  home community based care
• - 212 child care forums were established
• - 421 NGOS, CBOS, FBO and sites were
  strengthened

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HIV AND AIDS cont..

• CHALLENGES

• Establishing the extent of the OVC situation to
  be able to mitigate the impact on children and
  Child headed households.
• Linking HIV and AIDS programs to poverty and
  other social development programs to mitigate the
  social impact.
• Awareness, Prevention and community mobilization.
• Psychosocial support to PWAs, child headed
  households, children and families.
• Support to individuals and families receiving ARV
  treatment
• Monitoring and Evaluation

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HIV AND AIDS cont..

• PROPOSED REMEDIES
• Conduct action research in order to establish the
  OVC situation in SA
• Develop a database on OVC
• Strengthen initiatives such as Community Aids
  Response (CARE) for the implementation of
  services to OVC
• Develop a manual and develop the capacity of
  services providers on psychosocial support to
  PLWA, children and families
• Develop monitoring tools for all programmes
• Evaluate the impact of programmes on communities
  and develop best practices
• Strengthen and capacitate provinces with the
  implementation of home/community-based care and
  support programmes
• Strengthen the collaboration with social cluster
  to support the ARV roll out

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EXTENDED PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMME

• AIM
• To utilise public sector budgets to reduce
  unemployment and poverty by creating work
  opportunities through skills development.

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EXTENDED PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMME cont..

• MEASURABLE OBJECTIVES
• Design and monitor policies, strategies and
  programmes for poverty alleviation and community
  development, and register and support non-profit
  organisations
• Create 122 240 work opportunities in HCBC (sector
  wide)- 4 284 by DoSD for FY2004/5.
• Create 66 300 work opportunities ECD (sector
  wide)- 1 000 by DoSD FY2005/6.

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EXTENDED PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMME cont..

• Comprehensive Integrated Social Sector Plan has
  been produced.
• Intensive work is undertaken with partners to
  develop MOU.
• Additional R253 million is needed for HCBC.
• For ECD- an additional R349m is needed for a
  conditional Grant.

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EXTENDED PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMME cont..

• Challenges
• Sustainability of work opportunity
• Impact of the rollout of ARV
• Impact on volunteerism
• Capacity of SETAs to delivery training
• Exit counseling
• Increment of the ECD capacity
• Lack of adequate delegated Human Resource
  capacity

• Mitigation
• A.P of CDHW at comm. level.
• The risk factored into training
• Communication strategy
• Technical Assistance Support to SETAs
• Exit counseling trg prg t/b dev
• Conditional Grant is recom.
• Project Management Unit for each dept (national
  provinces)

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NATIONAL FOOD EMERGENCY PROGRAMME

• AIM
• To promote a sustainable and enabling environment
  for vulnerable groups experiencing food
  insecurity.

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NATIONAL FOOD EMERGENCY PROGRAMME cont

• MEASURABLE OBJECTIVES
• Provision of nutritious food (Cooked)
• Reduce malnutrition through food gardening and
  promotion of income generating
• Linking beneficiaries to other services including
  social security

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NATIONAL FOOD EMERGENCY PROGRAMME cont

• RECENT OUTPUTS
• As part of first pilot project (2002/03
  allocation / R 230 million), 244 000 households
  were reached
• Up to end of March 2004, 506 978 households were
  reached, 31 586 nutrient Supplements were
  supplied and funding to 40 drop-in centres were
  provided from the 2003/04 allocation (R 388
  million).

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CHALLENGES

• Sustainability
• Sectoral Integration
• Coordination of interventions of various sectors
• Inadequate communication outside government
• Participation of stakeholders varied
  perceptions in the programme
• Inconsistent configuration of social cluster
  Departments at provincial level
• Insufficient resources (fiscal, human and
  physical)

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CHILDREN, FAMILIES AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

• AIM
• To ensure the protection and empowerment of
  vulnerable children, youth and families  

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CHILDREN, FAMILIES AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT cont..

• MEASURABLE OBJECTIVES
• To promote well-being of children and protect
  them from vulnerability, abuse, neglect and
  exploitation
• To develop and facilitate implementation of
  strategies and programmes to promote youth
  development and self-reliance.
• To manage and protect child offenders
• To support and empower victims of violence
  especially women
• To promote family preservation, family values and
  ensure the support of vulnerable families
• To promote well-being of children and protect
  them from vulnerability, abuse, neglect and
  exploitation

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CHILDREN, FAMILIES AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT cont..

• RECENT OUTPUTS
• The Childrens Bill was approved by Cabinet and
  introduced in parliament which subsequently
  requested the Bill to be split into sections
  75-(national competencies)and 76(provincial
  competencies). Both sections will be considered
  in parliament, but section75 will be promulgated
  by the President and later amended to incorporate
  section 76.
• The draft policy framework was developed from the
  Strategy on the Prevention and Management of
  Child Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation and
  aligned with Childrens Bill as well as the draft
  Family Policy document. The draft policy
  framework will be consulted with all relevant
  stakeholders before implementation.
• The Child Protection Register (CPR) was
  implemented in nine provinces, good progress has
  been made with computerisation of CPR and
  Negotiations underway with the national
  Department of Justice/Education/ Health and SAPS
  on reporting function of CPR

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CHILD PROTECTION

• RECENT OUTPUTS
• During 2003 the Registrar of Adoptions registered
  2207,nationally and 200 inter-country adoptions
  were handled.
• The Department ratified the Hague Convention on
  Inter country adoptions was effected in December
  2003 and the interim Central Authority for
  Inter-country Adoptions is being established.
• Child Protection Week mainstreamed into DSD and
  broader government processes it was co-ordinated
  and celebrated in 2003 with great success
• A Workshop on ECD was held and refined Guideline
  document drafted document ready to go through
  final approval processes
• The research on the costing of children's homes
  was completed the document will help the
  department and other stakeholders in reviewing
  policy, planning and budgeting for childrens
  homes.

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YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

• RECENT OUTPUTS
• Progress has also been made in improving the
  capacity for the Youth Development and Social
  Crime Prevention activities of the Department
• The Department has started engaging stakeholders
  on the process of developing the Youth
  Development Strategy. The First Draft Strategy
  will be presented before all stakeholder at a
  conference which will be held in November 2004,

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SOCIAL CRIME PREVENTION

• RECENT OUTPUTS
• 600 assistant probation officers and probation
  officers were trained.
• The South African Council for Social Services
  Professions has accepted the formal application
  for the establishment of a Professional Board for
  Probation Officers. The first regulations for the
  establishment thereof have been Gazetted for
  comments.
• The Application for the establishment of a
  Standard Generating Body for Probation Officers
  has been accepted and the Department is in the
  process of nominating a board to drive the
  process.
• R 20 million donor funding from the Royal
  Netherlands Embassy was secured for the
  Department of Social Development contribution
  towards the Child Justice System.
• The Departments crime prevention programmes have
  been included in the IJS business plan and this
  will require regular progress reporting on our
  indicators

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VICTIM EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMME

• RECENT OUTPUTS
• Progress made include
• A costed strategy to guide the establishment and
  the management of shelters for women and their
  children who are victims of domestic violence and
  who need to move out of the violent home
  environment.  
• A One Stop Center for the provision of immediate
  services to victims of domestic violence was
  launched in Upington in the Northern Cape.
• An impact assessment of Victim Empowerment was
  carried out and a tool to monitor the projects
  was also developed. 

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FAMILIES

• RECENT OUTPUTS
• In preparing the nation for the10th Anniversary
  of International Year of the Family 2004, a pre
  launch was held in October 2003.
• The main launch was held as big event which
  attracted 20 000 people in Cape Town. The theme
  of the campaign is Family the Core of Society.
• A plan of action for the IYF has been developed
  with stakeholders
• The research on families in South Africa was
  commissioned to HSRC, the findings of the study
  are being utilised to draft a family policy with
  the intend of launching it during 2004.

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CHALLENGES

• The following main challenges are envisaged for
  the next three financial years
• Increased human and infrastructure resources for
  the implementation of the Children and Child
  Justice Bill
• Other areas that have policies and strategies
  that are near completion and would therefore
  need attention in terms of implementation and
  resources are as follows
• Families,
• Victim Empowerment,
• Child Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation,
• Orphans and vulnerable children especially those
  who are affected by HIV/AIDS and poverty and
• Alternative care.
• Youth development strategy

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OUTPUTS 2004/05

• Policy and programmes to care for and protect
  children
• Administer intercountry adoptions
• Early childhood development, residential and
  foster care services
• Policy and programmes to protect, strengthen and
  support families
• Policy and programmes to support and protect
  people affected by violence and crime
• Probation officers and assistant probation
  officers in all provinces trained
• Measures to reduce number of children awaiting
  trial in prison and police cells developed
• Develop, facilitate and monitor the
  implementation of policies, norms and standards
  of services to persons affected by crime.
• National Youth Skills Development Programme
  targeting out-of-school youth

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POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT

• AIM
• Support and facilitate collaboration to ensure
  the implementation of population policy, and
  monitor and evaluate progress with achieving
  policy objectives.

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POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT CONT..

• MEASURABLE OBJECTIVES
• Research, capacity building and dissemination of
  information on population and development trends
  to facilitate population policy implementation
  through intergovernmental programmes.

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POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT CONT..

• Recent Outputs up to end of March 2004
• Research-
• A larger volume of research was undertaken on
  key issues relating to families, ageing, child
  abuse, fertility trends, reproductive health,
  especially HIV/Aids and community development to
  support policy development and programme
  monitoring and evaluation.
• Ten year review research was completed and the
  final report released by the Presidency in
  October 2003.

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POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT CONT..

• United Nations Population fund-
• The second Country Programme of the United
  Nations Population Fund , which was launched in
  2002 was implemented in ten nodal District
  Municipalities in the three priority Provinces,
  Kwazulu Natal, Eastern Cape and Limpopo. The
  programme seeks to integrate and align population
  concerns of various areas within the integrated
  plans of district municipalities.

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POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT CONT..

• Primary HIV/Aids Capacity Building Course for
  government planners was launched and a total of
  1 628 officials from all spheres of government
  were trained. An evaluation exercise, assessing
  the impact of the course was completed, and
  recommendation will be incorporated in the
  revised courses. The course is implemented in
  partnership with SAMDI.

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POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT CONT..

• ADVOCACY AND COMMUNICATION
• Activities included the annual Joint Population
  Conference (on urban and rural sustainable
  development) and provincial and national youth
  workshops on population and development
  priorities. World Population Day was commemorated
  and a poster competition for youth was held
  jointly with the UN Population Fund
• The report on the five year review of the
  implementation of the population policy was
  completed and presented to the Heads of Social
  Development for discussion.

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POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT CONT..

• Provinces and other stakeholders participated in
  the development of the country report for ICPD
  10, which was presented at the United Nations
  Commission on Population and Development in March
  2004.
• Meetings of the Southern African Forum on
  Population and Development were held with the
  view to revive the forum and prepare resolutions
  for the next Southern African Ministers
  Conference on Population and Development

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KEY OUTPUTS 2004/05

• Population policy implemented, monitored and
  reported.
• Report on the State of the S.As population.
• Research findings and population issues
  advocated.
• Preparations for the Southern African programme
  on population and development.
• Population and development trends analysis.
• Impact assessment of core government development
  programmes.

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KEY OUTPUTS 2004/05 CONT

• Environment, population and development case
  studies.
• HIV/Aids capacity building course for planners
• Strategy for local population and development
  integration.
• Population and development information service
  provided

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PROGRAMME PERFORMANCE

• BRANCH SOCIAL SECURITY
• Mr. Vusi Madonsela
• Director General

PART 3
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SOCIAL SECURITY, POLICY AND PLANNING

• AIM
• Formulates, implements and monitors policies on
  social security and social assistance, and
  assesses the social, economic and fiscal impact
  of social security programmes. Key activities
  include developing and monitoring policy for
  social assistance for children and families,
  persons with disabilities, and older persons, and
  supporting implementation and developing
  strategies for financing social assistance
  programmes in line with macroeconomic goals and
  development objectives.

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SOCIAL SECURITY, POLICY AND PLANNING

• MEASURABLE OBJECTIVES
• To research and develop comprehensive social
  security policies and strategies, with a view to
  extending the social security safety net to meet
  the objectives of Poverty alleviation.
• To evaluate and assess the social, economic and
  fiscal impact of social security benefits on the
  following sectors of security Children and
  families, Persons with disabilities and Older
  persons.
• To develop a Framework for Policy Implementation,
  as well as mapping strategies for financing
  social assistance programs in line with the
  macro-economic goals and develop objectives.

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SOCIAL SECURITY, POLICY AND PLANNING

• MEASURABLE OBJECTIVES
• Strengthening of the overall framework for a
  comprehensive social protection in respect of the
  following
• Extension of the CSG (up to 11years 2004/5)
• Attend to concerns re disability benefits.
• Finalize policy review on Social relief of
  distress
• Finalization of the review of of all social
  security legislation to ensure consistency with
  the Constitution
• Establish consensus on and finalize the
  definition of disability and the application of
  the Disability Assessment mechanism and the
  regulatory framework

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SOCIAL SECURITY, POLICY AND PLANNING

• RECENT OUTPUTS
• The Social Assistance Bill and the South African
  Social Security Agency Bill were introduced in
  2003 and were were subsequently passed by
  Parliament February 2004
• An assessment tool for establishing eligibility
  for disability grants and care dependency grants
  was developed.
• Completed the design of a demographic and
  financial model for social security grants.

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OUTPUTS 2004/05

• RETIREMENT BENEFITS
• Regulated framework for deductions March 2005
• Research report on best practice models for death
  benefit provisions March 2005
• Education programme for older persons on
  awareness of Rights and Responsibilities
  February 2005
• Revised draft policy on Old Age Grants December
  2004

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OUTPUTS 2004/05

• DISABILITY BENEFITS
• An assessment tool and training manual for
  disability and care dependency grants November
  2004
• Trained social security officials on the use of
  the assessment tool March 2005
• Research report on the causes of the sharp rise
  in the uptake of disability and care dependency
  grants August 2004
• Research report on the mechanisms and processes
  to assess disability and care dependency grants
  August 2004
• Research report on social security benefits of
  people with disabilities in South Africa
  September 2005
• Case study report on systems and processes used
  in Mpumalanga Province for determining the
  eligibility of disability grants August 2004

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GRANT SYSTEM AND ADMINISTRATION

• AIM
• Develop service delivery norms and standards for
  grant administration, and maintain appropriate IT
  systems
• develop and co-ordinate a service delivery
  network and infrastructure to ensure access to
  social grants
• co-ordinate and facilitate the disbursement of
  disaster and social relief funds and
• facilitate the reform of social assistance grants
  administration, service delivery and management.

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GRANT SYSTEM AND ADMINISTRATION

• MEASURABLE OBJECTIVES
• Manage social grants through the development of
  norms and standards and
• Improve conditions with particular focus on
  improving application processing time and fraud
  reduction.

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GRANT SYSTEM AND ADMINISTRATION

• RECENT OUTPUTS
• The department is proceeding with replacing
  Socpen, the current payment and information
  system. A transaction advisor was recently
  appointed to assist in the procurement of a new
  system. In the meantime, the process of enhancing
  the current system is continuing.
• The department established two additional
  functions, namely
• Service Delivery Networks and
• Institutional Reform
• The process of designing a service delivery model
  for social grants is currently under way

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GRANT SYSTEM AND ADMINISTRATION

• RECENT OUTPUTS
• Disaster Relief Funds in excess of R 23 million
  was disbursed to over 18 000 beneficiaries during
  2003/04 (Western Cape, KZN, Eastern Cape and
  Limpopo)
• Emergency Food Relief in excess of R 3 million
  was allocated to identified organisations to
  provide relief to victim of disasters not yet
  declared (KZN, Western Cape)

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OUTPUTS 2004/05

• Improved Grant Administration System
• New Grant Payment System to replace SOCPEN
  system
• Meanwhile SOCPEN system enhanced to support Grant
  Administration
• Develop an Optimal Service Delivery
  Infrastructure Network to support Service
  Delivery
• Improved Relief administration
• Effect Institutional Reform of the Social Grant
  System.

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SOCIAL SECURITY SERVICE DELIVERY ASSURANCE

• AIM
• Providing information on the effective and
  efficient implementation of social assistance
  policies and programmes for decision-making
  purposes in different areas.
• Three distinct focus areas have been identified
• Monitoring and evaluating policy implementation
  as well as the processes and procedures of the
  social assistance system
• Developing and implementing a strategy for fraud
  prevention and detection in the social security
  environment at the national level and
• Initiating and implementing research projects to
  provide an evidence base for social assistance
  policies and programmes.

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SOCIAL SECURITY SERVICE DELIVERY ASSURANCE

• MEASURABLE OBJECTIVE
• Ensure effective delivery of social services to
  vulnerable individuals, households and
  communities, through the development of
  programmes, policies, and norms and standards.

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SOCIAL SECURITY SERVICE DELIVERY ASSURANCE

• RECENT OUTPUTS
• Impact Monitoring
• Development and finalization of an impact
  monitoring tool for Social Security
• To be implemented over a 10 year period as a
  panel survey
• Target a sample of 7 000 households
• Sample to consist of both beneficiaries and
  non-beneficiaries
• Sample frame will be designed by STATS SA
• Impact of grants on households will be measured
  over time
• Social grant beneficiary profiling after first
  implementation

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SOCIAL SECURITY SERVICE DELIVERY ASSURANCE

• RECENT OUTPUTS
• Social Policy Program for South Africa (SPPSA)
• Negotiations were finalised with DFID for funding
• Proposal was approved by DFID SA 3.8 Million
  Pounds Sterling
• Awaiting sign off by National Treasury
• Several projects have already started from 1
  October 2003
• These are

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SOCIAL SECURITY SERVICE DELIVERY ASSURANCE

• RECENT OUTPUTS
• Translation of research outcomes into policy
• Developed indicators for social exclusion
• Conducted administrative data analysis
• Beneficiary mobility
• Grant take-up
• Social policy research capacity review in
  Government
• HDI development programme
• KwaZulu Natal Income Dynamic Study (KIDS 3)
• Evaluation of Child Support Grant
• Social policy in the context of HIV/Aids

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SOCIAL SECURITY SERVICE DELIVERY ASSURANCE

• RECENT OUTPUTS
• Service Delivery Monitoring
• Development of a social security service delivery
  monitoring tool
• Implementation on National, Provincial, Pay point
  and Beneficiary level
• Draft report produced on status of service
  delivery as a baseline

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SOCIAL SECURITY SERVICE DELIVERY ASSURANCE

• RECENT OUTPUTS
• Service Delivery Monitoring
• Quarterly trend reports
• Trends on take-up, conditions of pay-points,
  spending of Provincial budgets etc.
• Socpen data used for trend reports
• Mainly used as Management information
• 4 reports was produced during this period

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SOCIAL SECURITY SERVICE DELIVERY ASSURANCE

• RECENT OUTPUTS
• Service Delivery Monitoring
• Monitoring of back pay project
• Detailed monitoring and audit exercise on 2
  billion rand pack pay project (Regulation 11) at
  national and provincial level
• Comprehensive report delivered covering audit
  outcomes and lessons learned for future projects

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SOCIAL SECURITY SERVICE DELIVERY ASSURANCE

• RECENT OUTPUTS
• Fraud Hotline and Register
• Development and launch of hotline and register
• Calls are reported and cases are monitored
  through the register
• Register will be rolled out to all Provincial
  Departments
• Auditor Generals report
• Report was produced on irregularities in the
  Eastern Cape in the Social Security environment
• Auditor General was appointed to do detailed
  investigations into these irregularities

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SOCIAL SECURITY SERVICE DELIVERY ASSURANCE

• RECENT OUTPUTS
• Data Interrogation
• Data interrogation project on Socpen data
  completed in all provinces
• Vast number of exception reports produced
• Socpen data matching with other data sets such as
  Home Affairs data, Government Pension Fund etc in
  process

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SOCIAL SECURITY SERVICE DELIVERY ASSURANCE

• RECENT OUTPUTS
• Extent of fraud in Social Security
• Analysis of known fraud cases in the Eastern
  Cape, Gauteng, Limpopo and Kwa Zulu Natal
• Information from analysis provided a estimated
  percentage of fraud in the National Social
  Security System
• Estimation R1,8 Billion per annum
• Report was produced on outcome

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OUTPUTS 2004/05

• Service delivery and impact monitoring
• Establish evidence base for the development of
  pro-poor social policy
• Status and progress reports on extent of fraud in
  social grant system for all 9 provinces
• Research on Social Security aspects.

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Establishment of an Agency for Social Security
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The Social Security Agency

• Cabinet approved in October 2002 the
  establishment of a Social Security Agency to
  manage and administer social assistance grants.
• The Social Assistance and South African Social
  Security Agency Bills were passed by Parliament
  in February 2004. Expected to be signed into law
  by the President soon.
• The Bills provide a framework for shifting the
  social assistance function to national government
  and also for the establishment of the Social
  Security Agency.
• Cabinet has prioritised that the Agency be
  operational by from 1 April 2005.

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Measures for the Transition

• The establishment of the Agency implies that the
  social grants function shift from provinces to
  national Government i.e.
• Administration, Delivery and Payment of social
  grants
• At a provincial level this requires
• Separation of social grants from other social
  development/welfare functions
• Further consolidation of the administration,
  delivery and payment
• Establishment, development and operationalisation
  of the Social Security Agency by 1st April 2005.
• This requires finalisation of the following
• Development of a service delivery model which
  includes Development of an organisational
  structure and appointment of personnel and
• Design of policies, processes procedures in
  respect of HR, Finance, IT, etc for the Agency
  and
• The design and implementation of a service
  delivery improvement plan

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The Service Delivery Model

• The key areas of business change will be as
  follows
• Competent frontline staff will process
  applications inline with norms and standards
  reducing application processing time
  significantly
• Decision making for grants will be at the point
  of delivery
• Skilled back office staff will ensure the
  verification, validation within a reduced period
  by using enabling technologies, such as case
  management, workflow, electronic registry, and
  interfaces to other key data sources to ensure
  integrity of applications. Technology will be
  standardised nationally, ensuring uniform input
  and predictable service outputs
• A focused support staff will ensure the
  capability building of all areas of the social
  security services
• The Payment contracts will be consolidated and
  standardised. In addition, a payment model is
  being refined that will pave the way for
  different options such as Post Offices, Banks and
  Cash payment, etc.
• A nationally based shared services centre,
  requiring centralised contracts management,
  negotiated at one point will enhance bargaining
  power that will reduce costs and therefore
  optimizes the delivery network.

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Financial and Fiscal Implications

• By the end of November 2004 all the financing
  mechanisms, necessary systems processes should
  be finalised. These include
• Determination of required funding for Grants
  transfers and Administration
• Determination of required Adjustments to the
  Provincial Equitable Share
• Establishment and development of Adequate
  Capacity and Systems in the national Department
  and the Agency
• A choice of conditional grants or transfer
  payments for social grants
• All the above requires completion by July 2004
  and will be submitted for approval through the
  MinMec, Budget Council, MinCombud Cabinet

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Role of the National DOSD

• Service assuror, responsible for
• Policy development and legislation
• Setting norms and standards for performance
• Costing Channeling funds to Agency for grants
• Set and Monitor performance standards for
  Agency
• Support to the Minister in oversight of the
  Agency
• Manage and integrate a comprehensive and
  integrated national social security system
• Setting up Appeals Units.

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Role of the Provincial Departments

• Provincial Departments will be able to focus
  better on social services and expand its service
  delivery
• The delegation framework of the Bills provide for
  the Minister to delegate Monitoring, Appeals
  Public Communication to beneficiaries in
  provinces
• The collaboration must be formalized in MinMec.
• The Provincial Executives will be crucial in
  their role of ensuring political oversight
• Provinces role in poverty intervention, including
  social relief of distress will expand.

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Role of the Agency

• The role of the Agency
• Extend infrastructure to deliver social security
  
• Register and pay beneficiaries
• Ensure ongoing verification and monitoring of
  beneficiary eligibility
• Prevention and detection of fraud though a
  compliance and monitoring unit
• Managing a complaints handling system
• Ensure reconciliation of financials

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Role of the Inspectorate

• The role of the Inspectorate
• Do independent audits and investigations of fraud
  first within the Agency, then beyond
• Ensure that the integrity of the social security
  system is not compromised
• Provide objective inputs on the quality of social
  security service delivery.

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Organisational and Personnel implications

• The National provincial Departments will be
  restructured
• About 25 - 30 of provincial staff need to de
  identified for transfer to the Agency
• Staff involved in social security only and a
  proportion of the support staff must be
  transferred
• In terms of Labour Relations Act and our proposal
  there should be no retrenchments because of the
  Agency (A mandate is required from MinMec),
• Details of provincial involvement in the
  Monitoring and Appeals function should be
  discussed
• An HR Sub-committee is driving these processes

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Implementation Plans
Phase III Transitional Phase 2
Phase IV Transitional Phase 3
Phase II Transitional Phase I

• Develop capacity in NDoSD SASSA
• Ring fence social security
• Prepare provinces to be incorporated
• Finalise transitional processes
• Implement an ERP system
• Develop new service delivery model,
• Develop SOCPEN functional user specifications

• Establish institutional and governance framework
• Set up transitional and project management
  structure
• Supplement capacity in the NDoSD
• Consultations with labour

• integration of initial provinces into the Agency
• Pilot the SOCPEN replacement system
• Continue with ringfencing activities
• Prepare further provinces for incorporation into
  the Agency

Phase I - the Interim Phase

• Integration of additional provincial social
  security functions into the Agency
• Roll out the SOCPEN system to all integrated
  provinces

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• FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
• Mr. C Pakade

PART 4
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AGENDA

• BUDGET STRUCTURE CHANGES
• BUDGET ALLOCATIONS
• - Special Allocations
• - Operational funds
• EXPENDITURE GROWTH
• CONDITIONAL GRANTS
• BUDGET PRESSURES

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CHANGES TO THE BUDGET STRUCTURE

• 2003/04
• P1 Admin
• P2Soc Sec, Pol Plan
• P3Grant SysAdmin
• P4Wel Ser Trans
• P5Dev Impl Sup
• P6 PopDev

• 2004/05
• P1 Admin
• P2 Soc Sec, Pol Plan
• P3Grant SysAdmin
• P4Soc Sec Serv Delivery Assurance
• P5 Wel Ser Trans
• P6 Children, Families and Youth Development
• P7 Poverty Alleviation
• P8 HIV and AIDS
• P9 PopDev

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BUDGET ALLOCATIONS
Year Normal allocation R000 Special Allocation R000 Total Allocation R000
2003/2004 198 072 (10.2) 1 771 126 (89.8) 1 952 502
2004/2005 311 297 (6.8) 4 238 173 (93.2) 4 548 410
2005/2006 349 043 (4.4) 7 499 283 (95.6) 7 848 326
2006/2007 372 389 (3.6) 9 918 339 (96.4) 10 290 728
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Budget Growth
32
72
133
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Operational Budget Growth
7
12
57
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MTEF ALLOCATION BY PROGRAMME
Programme 2004/05 R000 2005/06 R000 2006/07 R000
P1Admin 70 963 75 658 81 643
P2 Soc Security 12 954 13 727 14 549
P3 Grant Sys 3 791 041 7 070 732 9 465 773
P4 Ser Del Ass 29 357 30 823 32 673
P5 Wel Ser 17 921 18 871 19 810
P6 Child,Fa Yo 15 521 13 628 15 026
P7 Poverty Alleviation 521 210 527 911 559 319
P8 HIV\AIDS 78 290 85 153 89 402
P9 PopDev 11 153 11 823 12 533
TOTAL 4 548 410 7 848 326 10 290 728
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Departmental Budget 2004/05

• Operational Amount Allocated R 311 297 000
• Compensation of employees R 98 471 000
• (Personnel Exp)
• Goods and Services R 207 621 000
• (Admin, Inven,PS)
• Capital Assets R 3 416 000
• (Capital Equipment)
• Transfers R 729 000
• (Membership Fees)

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2004/05 Special Allocation

• Amount voted R4 548 410 000
• Special Allocations
• Disaster Relief Funds R 10 000 000
• Extension of Child Support Grant R 3 650 000 000
• Social Relief R 5 000 000
• Emergency Food Relief R 388 000 000
• HIV and AIDS R 70 180 000
• National Development Agency R 109 481 000
• National Councils R 5 512 000
• Total Special Allocations R4 238 173 000

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CONDITIONAL GRANTS

• The following grants will be managed by the
  Department in the 2004/05 and over the MTEF
  years
• HIV and AIDS (National Integrated Plan for
  Children Infected and Affected by HIV and AIDS)
• Extension of the Child Support Grant
• Food Emergency Relief

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HIV and AIDS
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Provincial Allocations
Provinces 2004/05 R000 2005/06 R000 2006/07 R000
Eastern Cape 7,089 7,514 7,965
Free State 9,825 10,415 11,040
Gauteng 10,315 10,934 11,590
Kwazulu-Natal 12,773 13,540 14,352
Limpopo 4,634 4,912 5,207
Mpumalanga 10,456 11,084 11,749
Northern Cape 3,930 4,165 4,415
North West 8,070 8,554 9,067
Western Cape 3,088 3,273 3,469
TOTAL 70,180 74,391 78,854

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CHILD SUPPORT EXTENSION GRANT
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Conditional Grant to Provinces
Provinces 2004/05 R000 2005/06 R000 2006/07 R000
Eastern Cape 902,977 1,706,997 2,296,777
Free State 240,558 454,754 611,875
Gauteng 220,490 416,816 560,830
Kwazulu-Natal 780,247 1,474,988 1,984,607
Limpopo 573,943 1,084,987 1,459,858
Mpumalanga 260,013 491,531 661,359
Northern Cape 65,272 123,392 166,023
North West 416,186 786,763 1,058,595
Western Cape 190,314 359,772 484,076
TOTAL 3,650,000 6,900,000 9,284,000

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FOOD EMERGENCY RELIEF
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Conditional Grant to Provinces
Provinces 2004/05 R000 2005/06 R000 2006/07 R000
Eastern Cape 94,133 94,133 99,781
Free State 37,334 37,334 39,574
Gauteng 27,904 27,904 29,578
Kwazulu-Natal 68,185 68,185 72,276
Limpopo 61,146 61,146 64,815
Mpumalanga 27,651 27,651 29,310
Northern Cape 9,998 9,998 10,598
North West 41,615 41,615 44,112
Western Cape 20,034 20,034 21,236
TOTAL 388,000 388,000 411,280

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BUDGET PRESSURES

• Implication of Social Security Agency
• Increased Budget of the Department in access of
  R40 billion a year
• Increased compliance responsibilities for the
  Department
• Increased monitoring and evaluation
  responsibilities for both the line function and
  for Finance
• Increased Audit exposure for the Department

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BUDGET PRESSURES 2

• Social Workers Retention Strategy
• Personnel budget Demands double
• Increased focus on Youth development
• Acceleration of Gender equality
• Increased International obligations
• Comprehensive and integrated Management
  Information Systems

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BUDGET PRESSURES 3

• Comprehensive strategy and service delivery model
  for welfare services
• Capacity for costing new policies and legislation
• Capacity to monitoring and impact assessment
• Capacity on social and economic analysis

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CONCLUSION
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