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6. Early Childhood Development Conditional Grant: Mpumalanga DSD

Department/ Municipality to whom Mpumalanga 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 11 540 Children reached through conditional grant funding
Amount per amended DORA R112,465
Amount transferred (R’000) R112,465
Reasons if amount as per DORA not N/A
transferred
Amount spent by the department/ R99,137
municipality (R’000)
Reasons for the funds unspent by The reasons for unspent funds per grant component are as follows:
the entity
Subsidy

• As a result of batches of claims only received after the cut-off date for the processing of payments
for the 2021/22 financial year, the underspending is largely on the additional allocation of R16,214
million related to the Presidential Employment Initiative funding.

Infrastructure

• Maintenance on ECD Centres were not complete due to the late appointment of contractors by the
Implementing Agent, Department of Public Works, Roads and Transport.
Monitoring mechanism by the The Department uses monthly, quarterly and in-year Monitoring reports to monitor progress.
transferring Department

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