Question NW569 to the Minister of Social Development:

Reply:

a) The NDA, through the Department of Social Development (DSD), was allocated R95 million from the Department of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Criminal Asset Recovery Account (CARA) fund to fund 312 Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to support victims of GBVF in communities across all 9 provinces. To date, a total of 297 CSOs have received funding for implementation of the project of supporting victims of GBVF. Each CSO received funding up to R300 000 depending on the experience and capacity to implement the GBVF support programme. During the assessment of CSOs capacities, seventy-eight (78) of these CSOs were found to be lacking capacity in governance, financial management and project management. These CSOs have been put on a mentoring and coaching programme to build their capacity on these areas. Special effort by the NDA and CSOs have been made to ensure that the GBVF hotspots Districts are all covered by the interventions provided by the CSOs.

The CSOs approved were through request for proposals (RFP) nationally, without a condition that they must be operating in hotspots identified by the SAPS. However, some of the CSOs who responded to the RFP were based in some of the hotspots identified by SAPS. The funding was based on preventative programmes which includes, awareness, workshops, home visits, referrals, shelters, paralegal support, abuse of grant recipients, counselling, therapy, child violence and court cases. To date, a total of 913 952 victims of gender-based violence have been reached through the Programme.

The table below indicates the number of funded CSOs and the number of GBVF victims supported by the programme per Province:

Activities	KwaZulu Natal	Limpopo	Free State	Gauteng	Eastern Cape	Northern Cape	Mpumalanga	Western Cape	Total
Awareness/Advocacy	27290	15747	73	792548	1825	3341	8464	1370	850 658
Child Victims	1069	614	50	171	316	23	61	37	3781
Therapy	2335	521	34	291	16	15	20	549	3422
Counselling	3630	1664	247	1015	761	167	1582	139	9205
Referrals	964	1703	167	221	423	167	321	75	4041
Home Visits	1536	2500	58	618	1329	20	1531	30	7622
Workshops	619	533	28	686	97	28	1890	1192	5073
Ex-combatants	0	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	13
Shelter	89	1298	12	101	48	21	42	17	1998
Paralegal	2	592	107	44	61	14	0	317	1137
Trauma	1244	609	30	8	93	21	53	170	2228
Emotional Abuse	1441	799	99	340	282	7	196	268	3432
Financial/Grant Abuse	146	341	0	199	141	0	67	10	904
Physical Abuse	685	1019	138	180	216	6	176	130	2188
Substance Abuse	1537	285	0	68	238	4	56	10	2188
Sexual Abuse	571	333	62	64	376	28	159	17	1610
Economic Programme	301	88	0	284	30	0	45	10	758
Domestic Violence	33	57	91		35	45	64	12	337
Conflict & Mediation	7	35	47		67	33	101		189
Uncontrollable Child			4			171			175
Social Media						12983			12983
Nutrition						171			171
Total	43 499	28 751	1 247	796 838	6 354	17 265	14 828	4 353	913 952

The NDA appointed VPK Business Venture (Pty) and Makhophila Training service providers through SCM process to render mentorship and coaching to CSOs identified and funded in the programme.

The table below indicates the number of approved CSOs per Province and the rand value of the funding by Province:

Province	No. of CSOs approved by Board for funding	Total value of approved funding
Gauteng	60	17 200 000
*Eastern Cape	67	15 900 000
Western Cape	23	6 900 000
Mpumalanga	37	10 500 000
Free State	20	5 700 000
Northern Cape	13	3 400 000
North West	9	2 300 000
Limpopo	57	16 200 000
KZN	26	7 500 000
	312	85 600 000
* Adjusted approval	85 700 000

 

An additional 36 CSOs have been verified and recommended for funding to provide additional support for GBVF. These will be funded from the balance from the funding that the NDA received from DSD for this project. The 36 CSOs will commence with the implementation of the project in April 2023.

The additional 36 CSOs recommended for funding comes from all nine provinces and are listed in the table below:

 

Province	No of CSOs
Gauteng	6
Eastern Cape	6
Western Cape	3
Mpumalanga	5
Free State	3
Northern Cape	4
North West	2
Limpopo	1
KwaZulu Natal	6
Total	36

b) The NDA undertook an evaluation of the programme in the current financial year to evaluate all the aspects of the programme, a draft report was submitted at the end of February 2023, we are currently finalising the report which will be concluded by the end of March 2023. The recommendations of this report will be used as lessons to improve and enhance the quality of services to GBVF victims as we continue with this programme. In addition, the Department of Social Development has integrated the implementation of the National Strategic Plan on Gender Based Violence and Femicide into its Annual Performance Plans and Operational Plans which allocated the budget accordingly. We are in the process of engaging the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development to request for another CARA funding to sustain the funded Civil Society Organisations for provision of GBVF services has commenced. Furthermore, DSD is engaging more donors and private businesses to fund Gender Based Violence and Femicide related projects in line with National Strategic Plan on Gender Based Violence and Femicide. Donors such as the European Commission and First Rand Foundation have responded positively to this call and the process of finalising the funding agreements are underway.