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DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Department will improve its disaster responsiveness
systems. These improvements should be evident in
heightened disaster-readiness among communities
as well as active citizenship in disaster matters. To
this end, this APP is targeted at cushioning all South
Africans from vulnerabilities that they cannot protect
themselves from.

This 2022/2023 APP will be implemented through the
Cabinet adopted District Development Model. The
implementation of the Departments programmes that
consist of this APP through the country’s 52 districts
and metropolitan municipalities will strengthen service
implementation where people live, in communities, as
much as it will encourage community responsiveness
and active citizenship. This APP strives to be the
embodiment of the aspirations of South Africans.
To this extent, the Department is intent on, by 2030,
defining and implementing the social protection
floor below which no South African shall live. This is
among the Department’s ongoing efforts targeted
MINISTER STATEMENT at eradicating poverty, creating opportunities for
economic absorption of unemployed social service
professionals, and implementing programmes that
It is my pleasure to present the Annual Performance Plan reduces inequalities among our people. The COVID-19
(APP) of the Department of Social Development for the social relief of distress is an example among the eminent
2022/2023 financial year. This APP contributes to the priority programmes that the Department pioneered
foundational work that my predecessors spearheaded to this end. I assure you that the Department is ready
towards the improvement of the state of the people. and equipped to carry similar assignments during the
So, this APP is the latest iteration of the democratic 2022/2023 financial year.
government’s refinement and implementation of
meaningful social development programmes. The Department will continue to contribute to
processes that stimulate discussions around the
This APP marks the mid-term point of the Sixth resource modelling and implementation of the basic
Administration of our democratic government. This income grant (BIG). The BIG promises to be a major
means that the Department will stop at nothing towards policy engagement that we will be part of during the
ensuring the practical realization of the outstanding 2022/2023 financial year.
aspects of the electoral mandate of the African National
Congress (ANC); Cabinet’s Seven Priorities; the Medium- Following the outcome of the Cabinet Lekgotla,
Term Strategic Framework (MTSF); and the National government adopted the National Annual Strategic
Development Plan (NDP), Vision 2030 in the lives of all Plan (NASP) with 50 short to medium term impact
South Africans. While the Department ought to protect interventions that are aimed at making a concrete
and enhance the dignity of its beneficiaries, from this difference in service delivery towards positively
point onwards it must register meaningful progress in transforming the lives of South Africans to remove and
the consolidation of the social wage through reliable alleviate the conditions of poverty, alienation, structural
and quality basic services. Equally important is the need incapacity and inequalities in families and communities.
for the Department to significantly contribute to the The Department of Social Development will be
Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan. implementing the following impact interventions that
are embedded in the 2022/2023 APP:
Since the advent of COVID-19, the Department and
its entities, the South African Social Security Agency • Implement the National Strategic Plan to eradicate
(SASSA), and the National Development Agency
(NDA) had to adapt and innovate their programme GBVF;
for enhanced visibility, relevance and responsiveness • Improve the optimization of social welfare services;
to peoples lived realities and felt needs during these • Optimise the social security legislative framework
extraordinary times. While speaking to the continuing and develop appropriate norms and standards for
reality of COVID-19, through this APP, the Department service delivery;
needs to increase its investments and interventions in • Optimise the non-profit organisations legislative
response to the challenges of climate change, that are framework to promote good governance and
drastically altering ordinary people’s lives and future accountability;
prospects. In pursuit of the wellbeing of our people • Promote vibrant and sustainable communities; and
– particularly the most vulnerable among them, the • Improved household food security.

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