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DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

8. PROGRAMME 5: SOCIAL POLICY AND INTERGRATED SERVICE DELIVERY

Purpose: Development Community (SADC), the African
Population Commission and the UN Commission on
To develop and facilitate the implementation of Population and Development;
policies, guidelines, norms and standards for effective • Registration and Compliance Monitoring of NPOs
and efficient delivery of community development registers and monitors NPOs in terms of the Non-
services to enable the poor, the vulnerable and the Profit Organisations Act 71 of 1997;
excluded within South African society to secure a • Substance Abuse Advisory Services and Oversight
better life and build sustainable, vibrant and healthy monitors the implementation of policies, legislation
communities. and norms and standards aimed at combating
substance abuse;
Sub-programmes • Community Development develops and facilitates
the implementation of policies, guidelines, norms
This programme consists of the following sub and standards for ensuring the effective and efficient
programmes: delivery of community development services and
programmes;
• Special Projects and Innovation provides for • Poverty alleviation, sustainable livelihoods and food
the coordination, incubation and innovation of security facilitates the implementation of policies,
Departmental and social cluster initiatives such as guidelines, norms and standards to build self-
the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP); reliance and cohesive communities;
• Population and Development supports, monitors • Youth development develops and facilitates
and evaluates the implementation of the White the implementation of policies, legislation and
Paper on Population Policy for South Africa. This programmes aimed at empowering the youth;
is done by conducting research on the country’s • The National Development Agency (NDA) provides
population trends and dynamics; raising awareness grants to civil society organisations to implement
of population and development concerns; and sustainable community-driven projects that address
supporting and building the technical capacity of food security and create employment and income
national, provincial and local government and other opportunities;
stakeholders to implement the Population Policy • NPO Funding Coordination develops and facilitates
strategies. It also monitors progress made with the implementation of policies, guidelines to
implementing the Population Policy in different ensure effective and uniform funding of Non-Profit
spheres and sectors of government, and reports back Organisations in the sector.
on progress made, to Cabinet, the Southern African

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