Question NW239 to the Minister of Trade and Industry
01 March 2017 - NW239
Waters, Mr M to ask the Minister of Trade and Industry
(a) What are the reasons that the application for funding by the Edenvale Child Welfare from the Ithuba National Lottery that was lodged in 2015 is taking so long to adjudicate, (b) on what date was the application received and (c) what is the total number of other applications for funding that still have to be adjudicated before the specified application can be processed?
Reply:
(a) Reasons for delay in adjudication
In the 2015 Call for Applications, the NLC received approximately 22 000 requests for funding. The NLC is responsible for providing administrative support to the respective Distributing Agencies (DAs) who are entrusted with adjudicating these applications. The administrative leg for this application has been completed and it is still awaiting adjudication by the Charities Distributing Agency (CDA). The current CDA members are part time, and only adjudicate when they are able to sit, which depends on availability of the members.
(b) The application was received on 12 November 2015.
(c) Of the 22000 applications received, Edenvale Child Welfare is the 16931 application in the queue.