Question NW2408 to the Minister of Social Development
14 December 2020 - NW2408
van der Merwe, Ms LL to ask the Minister of Social Development
With reference to a statement by the National Development Agency early in October 2020 that her department had allocated R100 million from the Criminal Assets Recovery Account to provide financial support to organisations rendering services to victims of crime, gender-based violence and femicide and given that representatives of various civil society groups have voiced their concerns about the distribution process (details furnished) of the specified funding, what (a) are the full, relevant details of the distribution process, (b) criteria are being considered, (c) total number of organisations have received the funding to date and (d) are the names of the specified organisations that received such funding?
Reply:
(a) The Grant Proposal Evaluation Team comprising of NDA, DoSD, Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities and the Interim Steering Committee evaluated 589 qualifying proposals received in response to the NDA’s call for proposals from CSOs rendering services to support victims of gender-based violence and femicide. The Team short-listed and recommended 312 emerging and established CSOs for funding to the value of R 86,100,000, for the NDA Board’s approval. Table 1 below outlines the outcome of the evaluation process per Province.
|
Province |
Number of recommended emerging CSOs |
Number of recommended established CSOs |
Total number of recommended CSOs |
Total amounts of recommended CSOs per Province |
|
Gauteng |
8 |
52 |
60 |
R 17 200 000 |
|
Eastern Cape |
37 |
30 |
67 |
R16 400 000 |
|
Western Cape |
2 |
21 |
23 |
R 6 700 000 |
|
Mpumalanga |
3 |
34 |
37 |
R 10 800 000 |
|
Free State |
3 |
17 |
20 |
R5 700 000 |
|
Northern Cape |
5 |
8 |
13 |
R3 400 000 |
|
North West |
4 |
5 |
9 |
R 2 300 000 |
|
Limpopo |
9 |
48 |
57 |
R16 200 000 |
|
KwaZulu-Natal |
4 |
22 |
26 |
R7 400 000 |
|
Total |
75 |
237 |
312 |
R 86 100 000 |
(b) The following criteria was used to make a decision on the proposals submitted:
1. Financial and operational capacity- this looked at whether the applicant organisation has experience and capacity to manage the project. The financial and governance capacity of the organisation was also examined. The applicant needed to indicate how the programme would address vulnerable groups such as women, children, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+.
2. Relevance. The relevance was to demonstrate how the proposed programme responds to the Emergency Response Plan (ERAP) to expedite the fight against Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF). Additionally the application was to demonstrate how clearly defined and strategically chosen are those involved (intermediaries, final beneficiaries, target groups)?
(c) 168 organisations received their first tranche payments to date. 10 of these organisations have received their second and final tranche.
(d) The names of the organisations that receivedfunding are attached separately.