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Estimates of the Provincial Revenue and Expenditure (EPRE) %u2013 2025/26 Financial Year %uf0b7 Co-ordination of programmes for inclusive economic growth: including, job creation, investments, inclusive economy, environmental sustainability, economic infrastructure and strategic projects, agriculture commercialization, and the Eastern Seaboard Development; Implementation of programmes for inclusive economic growth which are international cooperation as well as youth entrepreneurship support. Education and Health sector will continue to be supported to ensure that the province is geared towards an educated and empowered citizenry and health sector through the co-ordination of programmes to improve the health profile of the province. There is a continuous effort to ensure that the department with all role players work towards achieving vibrant, equitably enabled communities as part of societal efforts to build social cohesion and safe communities. Food poverty line, crime as well as conviction rates are indicators that will be used to assess progress. Operationally, the following interventions will be undertaken to achieve the above: %uf0b7 Co-ordination of programmes to build sustainable families, which includes rural development, anti-poverty and food security, social cohesion, and community safety; moral regeneration; ExMineworkers programme; military veterans beneficiation programme; and Gender Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF); %uf0b7 Co-ordination of programmes to improve service delivery, including social infrastructure; human settlements and small-town development; %uf0b7 The department will also be instrumental in implementing the broadband connectivity, small town revitalisation programmes as well as the centralisation of ICT services in the provincial administration. The success of the government in achieving the above outcomes depends largely on how well the machinery of government is wired and managed for success. Building a capable, ethical and accountable state is therefore an important outcome for the OTP and the province. Service delivery index, audit outcomes as well as public opinions on government are indicators that will be used to gauge performance in this regard. For its part, the OTP will undertake the following interventions: %uf0b7 Co-ordination of programmes to improve governance in the province. These programmes include transformation; governance; digital transformation; municipal support; integrated government cluster system; improvement of the image of government and the province. %uf0b7 Implementation of programmes to improve governance in the Department and these include: unqualified audit outcome; organisational maturity; procurement beneficiation; employment equity. 4 REPRIORITIZATION The department continued to reprioritise its budget to ensure that core policy areas of the department are protected. The implementation of budget ceilings mostly on non-core service delivery activities in order to make funds available for the core functions. Funds totalling to R36.576 million in 2025/26 and R4.668 million in 2026/27 were reprioritised mainly from non-core areas such as Consultants; Travel and Subsidies to fund mandated priorities and contractual obligations. Areas that have received priority in 2025/26 that were under-funded include legal services for legal claims; advertising for bulk media buying and planned recruitments; shortfall under provincial training etc. 5 PROCUREMENT The department has 9 projects included in the procurement plan with an estimated value of R89 million, and these include the following: %uf0b7 Appointment of a panel of service providers for the supply and delivery of goods and services for youth and legacy projects for 36 months with a budget provision of R35 million; %uf0b7 Provision of Mobile Communication Services for the department for 24 months with a budget provision of R20 million; 111