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Learn about the impact of the National School Nutrition Programme in Gauteng, focusing on feeding learners for academic success. This presentation covers grant expenditure trends, monitoring operations, challenges, interventions, and more.
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Presentation to the Select Committee on Appropriations On The National School Nutrition Grant Presented by: The Head of Department Mr. Boy Ngobeni
Vision Ensuring all learners in Gauteng do well at school and leave our institutions with the values, knowledge, skills and qualifications that will give them the best chance of success in adult life.
Mission To ensure quality learning and teaching take place in the classroom every day.
Introduction The National School Nutrition Programme is a poverty relieve measure that improves the environment for teaching and learning in many ways. Eg. By promoting punctuality amongst learners. The Department is currently providing nutrition to a total of 533 644 learners in Quintile 1-3 primary schools, 85 305 learners in Quintile 4-5 primary schools and 176 836 learners in Quintile1 and 2 secondary schools. In total 795 785 learners were served with meals. The National School Nutrition Programme has been successfully implemented in a total of 89 Quintile 2 secondary schools. In order to ensure the effectiveness of service delivery as well as the identification of challenges facing the programme two monthly meetings were convened in April 2010 and May 2010 by the district coordinators and provincial staff. In order to address safety issues with regard to the utilisation of gas, a meeting was held with Afrox in May 2010 as well as with the LP Gas Association of South Africa regarding gas safety compliance, in June 2010.
Monitoring of Expenditure trend • Monthly financial report to the Executive Management team chaired by the MEC. • Monthly financial report to the Senior Management team chaired by the HOD. • Monthly Matlotlo Budget Review meeting with Chief Directorates to discuss actual expenditure vs budgets
Monitoring of operations • 200 schools in all 15 districts were monitored by Provincial and District officials in the first quarter of 2010/11. • During the monitoring visits by the monitoring team, the team verifies the learner numbers, nutritional values, standards and frequency as well as the targets and actual service delivery. • Reports from the monitoring teams indicated that suppliers were compliant with menu options. The province is still offering breakfast with substantial acceptance by the learners. Learners receive this breakfast early in the morning, before school starts and a cooked meal around 10h00 as a requirement. • Drinking of clean and safe water with meals was observed and encouraged during this monitoring. • An improvement on learner attendance, punctuality and pass rate was also reported by school principals during the monitoring. • Suppliers formed part of provincial monitoring visits as a new practice. A total of 7 of the 11 Warehouses were visited for compliance and product quality checks.
Challenges and Concerns • Delays in payments to service providers in the first quarter were caused by: • Pressure on overall cash resources of the department. NB The department managed to utilise all cash made available by the Provincial Treasury . • The biggest problem relating to late payment was due to service providers sending their claims late.
Interventions /Corrective measures • Together with the Provincial Treasury the department has worked on a plan to ring fence the cash for conditional grants and infrastructure budgets. Minor enhancements to the financial system are being made to enable us to effect this decision. The improvement in expenditure figure of July shows that the interventions are beginning to take effect. • Internal measures have been put in place to rectify the matter as per resolution from interacting with the service providers. Processing of payments will be done in the second week of every month, to ensure that all claims are paid on or before the end of each claim month..
