Western Cape Department of Agriculture MEC JJ Dowry

1. Western Cape Department of AgricultureMEC JJ Dowry 11 February 2008

2. Departmental Expenditure

3. Expenditure per Programme

4. Expenditure per Economical Classification

5. Conditional Grants

6. CASP Purpose: To provide post settlement support to targeted beneficiaries of mainly land reform and other producers who have acquired land through private means

7. CASP: 2006/07 • Budget – R20,648 million • Spent – R20,644 million (unspent R4 000) • 143 Projects (61 LRAD & SLAG) • 5 765 Beneficiaries • 461 Youth • 3 459 Women • Mainly fruit and vegetables

8. CASP: 2007/08 • Budget – R33,426 million • Actual Spending to 31 Dec 2007 – R14,822 million • 107 projects ( 46 LRAD & SLAG) • 53 Food Security projects • 5 390 Beneficiaries • 3 868 Women and Youth

9. CASP: 2007/08 (cont.) January 2008 – R3,317million

10. LandCare Purpose: Through sustainable resource management, improve and develop the livelihoods of individuals and communities through integrated governmental and community based partnerships

11. LandCare: 2006/07 • Budget – R3,115 million plus R615 000 roll over • Spent – R3,480 million (under spent by R250 000) • 25 projects (junior LandCare and alien clearing) • 481 beneficiaries (jobs in alien clearing) 34 430 person days • 162 women • 2 950 youth (Junior LandCare) attended camps • 13 500 youth attended Junior LandCare puppet shows

12. LandCare: 2007/08 • Adjusted Budget – R3,317 million • Actual Spending to 31 Dec 2007 – R1,512 million • 32 projects (Junior LandCare, alien clearing) • 769 beneficiaries (jobs) or 28 398 person days • 140 women • 5 150 youth (Junior LandCare) attended camps • 9 300 youth attended Junior LandCare puppet shows

13. LandCare: 2007/08 January 2008 – R0,163million

14. Challenges • Time constraints linked to staffing • Legal issues within groups (contracts, legal entities not functioning, conflict) • Serious cash flow problems and debts • LRAD programme take 35 – 40% of FSD • “Sleeping partners – tail wagging the dog” • Reallocation of funds - ± R 3.2 million due to selling off farms and Bank legal processes and repossession of farms

15. Challenges (cont.) • Alignment issues (organisations, programmes and government grants) • Stakeholder participation, i.e. Municipalities etc. • Drought and floods – delay implementation of projects • Pre-settlement training of LRAD beneficiaries • 2008/09 application process started in 2007/08 • Shortage of Engineers, Economists & Subject Matter Specialist • Projects are staff driven not beneficiary driven

16. Challenges (cont.) • Technical staff had to do verification of 2006 flood damages on 550 farms • Technical staff involved in flood repair and recovery work • Abnormal high rainfall in Southern Cape and Klein Karoo in 2007 led to delays in project implementation

17. Remedial Action • Intended for next financial • year • N2 Corridor connected • Started October 2006 • Started August 2007 • Regular meetings held to • finalise joint approach • Involvement of more NGO’s and Farmer Unions • IT – Wireless connections • LRAD – Monthly meetings with DLA • DPAC Committee • M&E – DLA and PDA monitor projects

18. Remedial Action (cont.) • Comprehensive support to LRAD projects 2008/9 • Outsource Infrastructure pillar of CASP to Casidra • Auditor General requirements –paper trail • Intended for next • financial year • Intended for next • financial year • Currently underway

19. Drought Relief Purpose: To give relief to livestock producers in declared drought stricken areas by supplying limited fodder and transport thereof

20. Drought Relief: Process • Assessment of specific areas for signs of drought • Establish a representative committee to assess areas • Prepare a report for national DoA, via Provincial Disaster Management Unit • After national DoA concurs that it is a disaster area, then DoA approaches the Presidency for a declaration, and then national Treasury for financial support • After funds have been obtained, then a framework agreement is finalised and gazetted • Administrative process then gets put in place • Only after this, then funds can flow to the affected farmers

21. Drought Relief: 2006/07 • R10,199 million roll over • Spent – R7,582 million (under spent by R2,617 million – transferred to hail disaster in 2007/08) • 1 015 households benefited of which 318 were emerging farmers

22. Drought Relief: 2007/08 • Budget – R20 million received in December 2007 during the adjustment estimate • Spent – R0 • R10 million expected to be rolled over to 2008/09

23. Drought Relief: 2007/08 January 2008 – R5,87million

24. Flood Relief Process • After the flood, a team of agricultural engineering specialists assesses the damage (preliminary) • This information is fed to the Provincial Disaster Management Unit, who then prepares a report for cabinet, which then submits this decision (disaster) to the Presidency for a disaster declaration • After the declaration, then different national Departments approach national Treasury for funds • After the funds are secured then the DoA and PDA agree and enter into a framework agreement • Staff then has to assess, verify and analyse individual claims in terms of the framework • And only after this verification process is completed, payments can be made

25. Flood Relief: 2006/07 • Received December 2006 (Adjustment Estimate) – R33 million • Unspent – R33 million (Spending prescripts finalised in May 2007 only)

26. Flood Relief: 2007/08 • Received December 2007 (Adjustment Estimate) – R10 million • Spent – R7,856 million (Spending prescripts finalised in May 2007 only) • 182 of the total number of 550 landowners affected by the floods benefited from flood relief and recovery works to date

27. Flood Relief: 2007/08 January 2008: R0,656million

28. Hail Relief: Process • Similar to Flood process

29. Hail Relief: 2007/08 • Received December 2007 (Adjustment Estimate) – R9,231 million • Spent – R3,453 million • For period of 3 years • 394 Beneficiaries – 346 retrenched farmworkers re-employed and 48 additional workers employed • R4,2 million to be rolled over to 2008/09

30. Hail Relief: 2007/08 January 2008: R1,338 million

31. CAPITAL EXPENDITURE

32. CAPITAL EXPENDITURE (CONT.)

33. Monitoring & evaluation • Each Programme has its own M&E system • Field staff visit projects on regular basis • FSD Programme created positions for M&E officers – only 1 was filled, but left for 3 levels higher in Eastern Cape • Challenges: • Post level of M&E officers • Scarcity of skills in the specific field

34. Monitoring & evaluation Institutional Monitoring & Evaluation • Standing Committee • Annual budget, annual report • Appropriation budget • General policy issues • Parliamentary Questions • Ministerial enquiries (Red Numbers) • Laws that govern us and to which we must adhere (Strategic Plan p17-19) • Strategic Plan, Annual Performance Plan, Skills development Plan, EE Plan, etc. • Service Standards Charter

35. Monitoring & evaluation Finances • Departmental quarterly narrative reports to Provincial Treasury (PT) • Quarterly narrative reports on CASP and LandCare to DOA • Quarterly compliance with PFMA report to PT • Monthly in Year Monitoring and conditional grant report on financial status of Department to PT • Monthly financial report on CASP and LandCare to DOA

36. In answer: • Question 3: • Monthly reporting is done

37. THANK YOU