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PART B: PERFORMANCE INFORMATION CONDITIONAL GRANTS

5. Early Childhood Development Conditional Grant: Limpopo DSD

Department/ Municipality to whom Limpopo 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 num-
ber 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 Subsidy
• 812 ECD centres received the R17 subsidy per child per day benefitting 27 541 children.

Maintenance
• 51 ECD centres were maintained.
• Low cost ECD centre on foundation level.
Amount per amended DORA R167,607
Amount transferred (R’000) R167,607
Reasons if amount as per DORA not N/A
transferred
Amount spent by the department/ R165,931
municipality (R’000)
Reasons for the funds unspent by The reasons for unspent funds per grant component are as follows:
the entity
Subsidy
• 8 ECD centres were non-compliant to the funding requirements.
• Low number of children within ‘means test’ in funded ECD centres.
• Stimulus Relief Fund payments could not be authorised for some of the ECD centres due to non-
compliance with the Central Supplier Database.
• Physical verification for unregistered ECD centres needed to be conducted which affected payment
authorisations negatively.
• Some ECD centres are untraceable whilst others are not ECD centres at all.
• The contract for the national service provider responsible for payment batches, was terminated in
November 2021 and only re-appointed during February 2022.
• The break in service lead to delays in the disbursement of payment batches to provinces.
Infrastructure
• As a service provider was only appointed during November 2021, and sites handed over in December
2021, low cost ECD centres could not be completed.
• Shortlisting process for the Quantity Surveyor Assistant Director post conducted in December 2021
whilst interviews only took place during February 2022.
Monitoring mechanism by the The Department uses monthly, quarterly and in-year monitoring reports to monitor progress.
transferring Department

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