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Estimates of the Provincial Revenue and Expenditure (EPRE) %u2013 2025/26 Financial Year%uf0b7 Promotive %u2013 Aims to enhance the capabilities of individuals, communities and institutions to participate in all spheres of activity. Departmental Programmes: Family Preservation Programmes, Protective workshops for persons with disabilities, Partial Care Services, Skills Development programmes for youth, women, persons with disabilities and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual (LGBTQIA+), Aftercare services. %uf0b7 Transformative %u2013 Tackles inequities and vulnerabilities through changes in policies, laws, budgetary allocations, and redistributive measures Departmental Programmes: Expansion of services to under%u2013serviced areas through ICROP, Prevention and Early intervention Programmes to deal with social ills, Women Empowerment programmes, Youth Empowerment programmes. %uf0b7 Developmental and generative %u2013 Increases consumption patterns of the poor, promoting local economic development and enabling poor people to access economic and social opportunities. Departmental Programmes: Expanded public works programme, Community Development Programme, Development, Capacity Building and funding of Non%u2013Profit Organisations, Youth, Women and Persons with Disability Co-operatives, Establishment of Community Development Structure to create a platform for development opportunities. 1.4 Main Services The department offers programmes dealing with Child and Youth care centres, Community based care services for children, Crime prevention and support, Victim empowerment including GBVF programmes, Child care and protection services, Partial care services, , Substance abuse, prevention and rehabilitation, Community mobilisation programmes, Institutional capacity building and support for NPO%u2019s, Poverty alleviation, Care and support services to older persons, Services to persons with disabilities, HIV and AIDS, Social Relief, Care and services to families and sustainable livelihoods programmes, profiling of households and communities, youth development including EPWP work opportunities, Women Development and co-ordinating the provincial anti-poverty strategy Vulnerable groups (poor, marginalized and disadvantaged) are targeted. Furthermore, the department has identified children, women, youth, the elderly and people with disabilities as focus groups targeted for service delivery. 1.5 Demands for and expected changes in the services Increase in the number of the population increases demand for social services, social ills, Gender Based Violence (GBV), Domestic Violence, early exposure to drugs and crime. These kinds of services drive the demand in services and the department has to react. To ensure that older people continue to receive safety, care, and developmental services, the department will enhance community-based interventions for older people, with an emphasis on active aging and service centres. Since the department is typically the first to respond to a disaster, an Integrated Response Plan package for disaster management must be established and implemented in coordination with other relevant stakeholders. Natural disasters have severely damaged the province's eastern and central regions, leaving families and communities in a socially distressing state characterized by a lack of resistance, defencelessness, susceptibility, exposure, fragility, and helplessness. Factors such as peer pressure, physical and sexual abuse, early exposure to drugs, stress, and parental guidance can greatly affect a person's likelihood of drug use and addiction. The department will increase its awareness campaigns in the province on substance abuse. 243