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Estimates of the Provincial Revenue and Expenditure (EPRE) - 2025/26 Financial Year by 36 per cent to R13.656 million mainly due to once-off costs for the LAN infrastructure upgrade in 2024/25. 8.2 Programme 2: Sustainable Resource Management Programme Purpose: Allocative efficacy through budget preparations, infrastructure budgeting, expenditure monitoring economic analysis and fiscal policy to all provincial departments, public entities and management of financial assets and liabilities. The programme consists of four sub-programmes namely: %uf0b7 Programme Support: Provides strategic leadership in implementing strategies to ensure the programme%u2019s contribution in realising departmental objectives. %uf0b7 Economic Analysis: Determines and evaluates economic parameters and socio-economic imperatives within a provincial and macro-economic context. %uf0b7 Fiscal Policy: Promotes optimal financial resource allocation and enables government to finance its service delivery obligations, and also promotes sound planning, budgeting, financial management and reporting in public entities. %uf0b7 Budget Management: Promotes effective optimal resource allocation; manages fiscal assets, optimises liquidity requirements and returns on financial investments and maximises the latter within acceptable levels of risk.Table 12: Summary of departmental payments and estimates sub-programme: P2- Sustainable Resource Management Outcome Main appropriationAdjusted appropriation Revised estimate Medium-term estimates % change from 2024/25R thousand 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 2025/26 2026/27 2027/281. Programme Support 3 045 4 597 3 232 3 601 3 304 3 304 3 907 4 097 4 290 18.32. Economic Analysis 2 958 3 559 3 153 3 772 3 678 3 678 4 558 4 825 5 048 23.93. Fiscal Policy 8 919 8 934 9 187 10 108 9 538 9 538 10 510 11 006 11 508 10.24. Budget Management 60 321 56 370 60 079 68 066 64 521 64 521 67 783 72 342 75 614 5.1Total payments and estimates 75 243 73 460 75 651 85 547 81 041 81 041 86 758 92 270 96 460 7.12024/25Table 12 above shows the summary of payments and estimates per sub-programme from 2021/22 to 2027/28. Actual expenditure increased from R73.460 million in 2021/22 to a revised estimate of R81.041 million in 2024/25. The increase is mainly due to ICS adjustments and additional allocations received for Provincial Infrastructure Support. In 2025/26, the budget increases by 7.1 per cent to R86.758 million due to provisions made for new critical posts in the revised organisational structure. The budget will grow moderately in the 2 outer years in line with the inflationary adjustment. 789