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PART B: PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

12 CONDITIONAL GRANTS

The table below describes each of the conditional grants and earmarked funds paid by the Department.

1. Early Childhood Development Conditional Grant: Eastern Cape DSD

Department/Municipality to whom Eastern Cape Provincial Department of Social Development
the grant has been transferred
Purpose of the grant • To increase the number of poor children accessing subsidised ECD services through centre and
non-centre based programmes.
• To support ECD providers delivering an ECD programme to meet basic health and safety
requirements for registration.
• To pilot the construction of new low cost ECD centres.
Expected outputs of the grant The grant has two components with detailed outputs, conditions and responsibilities for each
component specified in separate frameworks.
Outputs reflected in the respective frameworks for the following two grant components outline
the number of:

Subsidy

• Eligible children subsidised, as agreed in the service level agreement (SLA).
• Children attending ECD services in fully registered centres.
• Attending ECD services in conditionally registered centres.
• Subsidised from the grant in fully registered centres.
• Subsidised from the grant in conditionally registered centres.
• Days subsidised for centre based programmes.
• Children subsidised through provincial own revenue including equitable share that are prof
the top-up grant.
• Equitable share children benefiting from the top-up grant.
• ECD Practitioners and other staff employed in registered ECD centres benefitting from the
grant.

Infrastructure
• ECD centres assessed for infrastructure support and health and safety standards.
• ECD centres whose registrations status improved as a result of the infrastructure component.
• Low cost ECE centres constructed.
Actual outputs achieved • 33 050 poor children benefited from ECD services.
• ECD centres and 264 Special Day Care Centres were subsidized for 264 days in the 2020/21
financial year.
• 27 571 children attended registered centres in the 2020/21 financial year.
• 8 ECD centres were upgraded from the maintenance component.
• 8 ECD centres moved from conditional registration to full registration as a result of maintenance
component programmes is busy with the process of full registration
Amount per amended DORA R184,581
Amount transferred (R’000) R184,581
Reasons if amount as per DORA not N/A
transferred
Amount spent by the department/ R206 869 (Inclusive of expenditure against funds rolled over from the 2020/21 financial year)
municipality (R’000)
Reasons for the funds unspent by The reasons for unspent funds per grant component are as follows:
the entity Subsidy
• The Department was not able to spend the total amount rolled over for Stimulus Relief Funds
and funds repurposed for the procurement of PPEs.
• Due to time constraints, and since funds were only transferred to the Department at the end
of March 2022, the Department was not able to spend the additional allocation of R26,611
million allocated for the Stimulus Relief Fund.

Monitoring mechanism by the The Department uses monthly, quarterly and in-year monitoring reports to monitor progress.
transferring Department

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