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PRESENTATION TO THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT Department of Social Development

PRESENTATION TO THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT Department of Social Development 22 May 2001. REVIEW OF 2000/2001. Focused on alignment of programmes with the Ten Point Plan Improving the quality, quantity and pace of service delivery

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PRESENTATION TO THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT Department of Social Development

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  1. PRESENTATION TO THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT Department of Social Development 22 May 2001

  2. REVIEW OF 2000/2001 • Focused on alignment of programmes with the Ten Point Plan • Improving the quality, quantity and pace of service delivery • Enhancing internal operations of the Department

  3. Rebuilding of family, community and social relations Integrated poverty eradication strategy Comprehensive social security system Violence against women and children, older persons and other vulnerable groups HIV/AIDS Youth development Accessibility of social welfare services Services to people with disabilities Commitment to co-operative governance Train, educate, re-deploy and employ a new category of workers in social development SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT10-PONT PLAN

  4. Allocation 2000/2001 Amount voted R 348 706 000 AdjustmentsEstimate R 34 559 000 Total allocation R 383 265 000 Projected expenditure R 381 888 000 Savings R 1 377 000

  5. MTEF-National Department R’000 % Increase/decrease 2000/01 348 706 2001/02 190 938 (45.3) 2002/03 233 788 22.4 2003/04 198 320 (15.1) • Decreases reflect a reduced allocation for poverty relief and other special allocations

  6. MTEF Summary

  7. Departmental budget 2001/02 2000/012001/02 R ‘000R’000 Administration 39 525 37 995 Social Security, Policy and Planning 23 588 4 854 Grant systems and administration 123 112 55 514 Welfare Service Transformation 23 215 11 585 Development Implement Support 167 036 72 378 Population & Development 6 789 8 612

  8. 2001/02 Financial year Amount voted R 190 938 000 • Special Allocations • Poverty Relief R 50 000 000 • Improvement of Social Security System R 26 000 000 • Disaster Relief Funds R 10 000 000 • Improvement of Social Grant payment System R 14 000 000 • HIV/AIDS R 13 400 000 • Total Special Allocations R 113 400 000

  9. 2001/02 Financial year Amount voted R 190 938 000 • Less:Special Allocations R 113 400 000 Total Operation R 77 538 000 • Personnel allocation R 43 316 000 • Operational costs R 34 222 000

  10. Social SecurityProgress • Established Committee of Inquiry into Comprehensive Social Security to develop an affordable system of social protection. Work is in progress and will be completed by end July 2001 • Reviewed regulations to Social Assistance Act to eliminate inconsistencies. Amendments have been published for comment.

  11. Social SecurityProgress • Improving service delivery: • Reviewed contracts of pay contractors and developed minimum norms and standards • Started the development of comprehensive norms and standards for social security, due for completion in July 2001.

  12. Social SecurityProgress • Developed plan to roll-out improvements at pay points: • Prioritise pay points with more than 500 beneficiaries • Help desks for all pay points to be staffed with competent officials equipped with laptop, cellphone, information, table and chair • Training officials and volunteers in first aid • Negotiating with SAPS to provide security • Negotiations with local authorities for water and sanitation • Temporary tents to provide shelter

  13. Social SecurityProgress • Information (brochures, radio) on grants and services disseminated in all the languages • Operations centers to provide on line information and referral service in National Department, Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Northern Cape • Client service charter adopted by provincial social security officials • Completed procedure manual for use by provincial social security officials

  14. Social SecurityProgress • Infrastructure & Technological improvements: • Providing information and communication technology to rural areas in Eastern Cape, Mpumalanga and Northern Province • All provinces received assistance to replace outdated equipment and upgrade equipment (747 computers provided) • Special equipment to provinces to generate letters to beneficiaries in relevant languages • Started work on development of system to replace current SOCPEN system

  15. Progress on Child Support Grantas at 2001/3/31

  16. Disaster Relief • Disaster areas declared: • 1999 - 21; 2000 – 38; • 2001 – 2 • Mpumalanga (claims not yet received) • Soccer Stadium (claims not yet received) • Progress as at 18 May 2001: • Received 58 027 new claims • Processed 85 224 claims • Payments in process: scheduled for May, June, July • Remaining claims in process • Propose amalgamation of Boards

  17. Social Security Priorities 2001/2002 • Options to Cabinet on Comprehensive Social Security • Implement pay point and pay contractor norms and standards • Finalise comprehensive norms and standards and audit of pay points • Improvement of the Grant Payment System

  18. Poverty Relief Programme 357

  19. Poverty Relief ProgrammeProgress • Implemented improvements to the PRP • Improved planning and internal controls • More varied system of disbursements, e.g. utilisation of Faith-based organisations • Allocation for 2001/2002 is spread over three years of the MTEF • Established a National Poverty Relief Project Office with a National Programme Manager

  20. Poverty Relief ProgrammeProgress • Improved monitoring: • Regular reporting to MINMEC • Assistance from UNDP to refine monitoring and evaluation system • Visits to projects

  21. Poverty Relief ProgrammeProgress • Conducted a mid-term assessment of 1638 projects and found: • Over half had good potential for sustainability • 72% projects were in rural areas, 26% in urban areas and 2% in informal settlements • 25 956 job opportunities created - 64% of jobs created benefited women, 24% benefited youth, 12% benefited men and 6% benefited disabled • Capacity building was needed for participants to ensure sustainability of projects

  22. Poverty Relief Programme Allocation for 2000/2001: R120 m Roll-over from 1999/2000: R 37.7 m Amount transferred to IDT: R157.005 m Conditional grant to provincesfor Flagship projects R 695 000

  23. PRP Priorities for 2001/2002 • Implement Business plan for 2001/2002 Focus on HIV/AIDS, food security for children, youth development, economic empowerment of women in nodal points of the ISRDS and Urban Renewal Programme • Consolidate projects of previous years • Implement new monitoring tool and evaluation of PRP to document lessons learned

  24. HIV/AIDSProgress • Implementing National Integrated Plan for Children Infected and Affected by HIV/AIDS – special allocation of R6.8 million, of which R5.62 million has been paid over to the 6 participating provinces and the remainder committed to national department projects in 2000/01 • Utilised the Poverty Relief Funds to support home-based and community-based care programmes and HIV/AIDS awareness programmes – total of R10.95 million

  25. HIV/AIDSProgress • Planned joint programme with Department of Health for a national roll-out of Home-Based and Community-Based care in 2001/2002 • Chair the National AIDS and Children Task Team, with work in progress on: • Rapid Appraisal on AIDS and children completed and report published in March/April 2000 • Costing of care • Audit of legislation affecting children • Directory of services to children

  26. HIV/AIDSProgress • Undertook fact-finding missions to Uganda and SADC regional conference on home/community based care in Botswana • In the process of publishing the State of the South African Population Report 2001 on the impact of HIV/AIDS on sustainable human development in SA • Established HIV/AIDS Directorate in the department

  27. HIV/AIDS Priorities for 2001/2002 • Finalise Social Development Sector strategy response to HIV/AIDS • Develop comprehensive database on all home-based/community-based projects • Strengthen existing projects • Roll-out new project sites for the National Integrated Plan for Children and Youth Infected and Affected by HIV/AIDS • Monitoring population trends • Nation wide implementation of home/community based care and support programme • Partnership with LOVE LIFE focusing on reducing the risk of infection amongst the youth with funding from the Kaiser Family Foundation

  28. Children and YouthProgress • Received R11.730 million from Netherlands for the Transformation of Child & Youth Care System for 1998/99. The total R11, 7 million has been spent by end March 2001 • Grants totaling R13.9 million were allocated to provinces for one-stop early intervention services

  29. Children and YouthProgress • Progress made on establishing secure care facilities – each province has at least one facility • Participated in inter-departmental investigation into children awaiting trial – provincial action plans developed and approved and implementation are being monitored

  30. Children and YouthProgress • Computerized child protection register is being piloted in 5 provinces • Draft Child Protection strategy • Draft Youth Development Strategy • Drafting of new legislation in progress

  31. WomenProgress • 16 Flagship projects for unemployed women implemented in provinces: • Total of R2 273 000 transferred to provinces • 801 women and 913 children benefiting • Established 100 Victim Empowerment Projects, majority providing 24 hour one-stop services

  32. WomenProgress • Compiled Domestic Violence Resource Directory for police, courts and welfare Conducted survey of shelters to develop strategy for shelters for abused women. • Participating in development of intersectoral strategy for sexual offences. • Minimum standards for shelters have been developed. • Training in the implementation of the Domestic Violence Act. • Provincial training of approximately 225 social workers and law counsellors has been completed

  33. WomenProgress • Participated in the development of an inter-departmental and inter-sectoral training manual on domestic violence, which will be utilised for training to all service providers. • Guidelines on the perpetrator programme have been developed to be implemented nationally. • Commemorated the National Women’s Day focussing on International activities by empowering female staff on the Domestic Violence Act, Maintenance Act, the Child Support Grant and Women Rights.

  34. Older PersonsProgress • Committee of Inquiry into Abuse and Neglect of Older Persons established • Report from the Committee for Inquiry into Abuse and Neglect of Older persons has been launched and in the process of distribution. • Regulations to Aged Persons Amendment Act completed • Draft policy and legislation on Status of Older Persons to replace Aged Persons Amendment Act • Pilot on integrated community-based care

  35. Persons with disabilitiesProgress • Improve process of assessment for grant – regulations to be amended • Collaborating with Development Trust for Disabled People to pilot transformation workshops in all provinces

  36. Not-for Profit Organisations • Registration of NPOs: • 5149 applications received (100% increase over 1999) • 4090 organisations registered • 4120 financial statements received for 1999 • 1500 financial statements received for 2000

  37. Transformation of welfare services -Priorities for 2001/2002 • Focus on transformation of welfare services • Finalise review of Financing Policy • Rolling plan of audits of subsidised institutions • Finalise child protection policy • Finalise youth development strategy • Regulations on secure care

  38. Transformation of welfare services -Priorities for 2001/2002 • New legislation on Older Persons and implementation of recommendations of Committee • Transformation of protective workshops • Strategy on services to people with disabilities in rural areas • Evaluate all pilot programmes to determine readiness for mainstreaming and to document lessons learned

  39. Transformation of welfare services -Priorities for 2001/2002 • Support to Central Drug Authority and Advisory Board on Social Development • Implement monitoring system for NPOs and provide capacity building to assist with compliance with NPO Act

  40. Population & Development • Published State of SA Population Report • Commissioned review of national and provincial population functions • Ongoing information dissemination and advocacy work

  41. Transformation of Department • New structure developed • New Performance Management System • HRD plan for department • Employment Equity Plan • Range of human resource policies developed • Implementing programme to improve financial management

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