NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT

PRESENTATION28 OCTOBER 2014

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CONTENT

Role and Mandate

Current Strategic Focus Areas

Why the need for ECD

NDA ECD Achievements - 2013/14

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ROLE AND MANDATE

In terms of the National Development Agency (NDA) Act (Act No 108 of

1998 as amended), NDA was mandated to contribute towards the

eradication of poverty and its causes by granting funds to civil society

organisations (CSOs) to:

Implement development projects in poor communities, and

Strengthen the institutional capacity of other CSOs that provide

services to poor communities.

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CURRENT STRATEGIC FOCUS AREAS

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WHY THE NEED FOR ECD

• The South African government has, since 1994, prioritised Early Childhood Development (ECD) as an integral part of addressing the legacy of apartheid education policies

• ECD has been recognised as one of the most powerful tools of breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty in South Africa

• A recent report entitled, “South Africa’s Children: A Review of Equity and Child Rights”, released by the South African Human Rights Commission, UNICEF and the Department of Women, Children and People with Disabilities notes that “just 43% of children under five in South Africa are exposed to an ECD programme at home, a centre or elsewhere and there are large disparities across provinces”

• The NDP and MTEF support early childhood intervention as a cost effective way of building a nation’s human capital and ensuring equitable participation of women in the labour force and social life of communities

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CURRENT NDA INTERVENTIONS

Early Childhood Development ECD practitioner training Support Food Security at ECD sites Educational material and strengthen the institutional capacity and management

skills of ECD sites Limited financial resources for capital infrastructure for ECD sites

ECD Campaign aimed at Increased level of resources to ECD and increase in the number of ECD sector

programmes supported Improved quality of ECD programmes (Practitioners, Nutrition, Infrastructure). Increased number of beneficiaries impacted by ECD

ECD Awards

Aimed at increasing awareness of the need for such interventions and generate partnerships

with resources

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CURRENT NDA INTERVENTIONS CONT’D

Mobile ECD Trucks

• They expand access by “taking ECD to communities” where there are no structures

• They bring services to the doorstep of families and communities that would otherwise not have an opportunity to register their children at an ECD site due to issues of affordability and distance

• Children from underprivileged families have the possibility and opportunity to be developed emotionally, physically, mentally and socially

• Indigent families can be linked to government services • More communities can be reached through the mobile facilities • The mobile truck programme deliberately empowers women and youth

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NDA ECD ACHIEVEMENTS – 2013/14 (per province)

Province Total Amount Approved

Number of ECD NQF Level 4 trainees

Number of Children enrolled in ECD sites

Number of Jobs created in ECD

Amount Approved for Infrastructure Development

Eastern Cape R 2,944,750.00

20 371 14 R 1,968,700.00

Free State R 1,612,638.00

20 170 30 R 580,000.00

Gauteng R 2,632,204.00

15 800 11 R 534,000.00

Kwa-Zulu Natal R 2,804,098.00

29 1,065 25 R 341,405.00

Limpopo R 1,948,237.00

10 24 19 R 764,000.00

Mpumalanga R 2,055,325.00

30 255 25 R 670,000.00

North West Province R 1,306,168.00

20 1,170 25 R 782,000.00

Western Cape R 2,712,702.00

20 3,712 9 R 940,000.00

North West Province R 1,306,168.00

10 1,170 25 R 782,000.00

  R 19,203,937.00 164 7,675 170 R 6,635,105.00

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Thank youTHANK YOU

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