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Outline • Background Introduction • • Overview of the funding structure Funding structure for the DBE • Funding structure of provincial DBEs • • Methodology for evaluating available data • Findings from the evaluation • HIV and AIDS Life Skills Education • Children/Learners with Severe to Profound Intellectual Disability (C/LSPID) • Conclusion • Other Basic Education Grants • National School Nutrition Programme Grant • Education Infrastructure Grant • Maths, Science and Technology Grant 2 Background • Nationally raised government revenue is divided between the three spheres of government in the form of an equitable share and conditional grants for specific purposes The equitable division of revenue raised nationally among spheres of government is divided according to a formula • • Conditional allocations to provinces from the national government’s share of revenue are allocated to provinces to: – Supplement the funding of programmes or functions funded from provincial budgets – Specific-purpose allocations to provinces – Allocations-in-kind to provinces for designated special programmes • Basic education services are mainly provided by the provincial sphere of government funded through the: – Provincial Equitable Share informed by objective data to reflect the demand for services across all nine provinces – Transfers from the National Department of Basic Education in the form of conditional grants 3 Introduction • The Parliamentary Budget Office assists Members with their oversight role, specifically to determine the efficiency and effectiveness of the expenditure of nationally raised revenue.
• Due to the size and importance of priority funding, the PBO started a series of assessments on conditional grants.
• The evaluation of the performance of the Education Conditional Grants in 2019/20 is based on the financial and non-financial performance as reflected in the Annual Report of the National Department of Basic Education: – Quarterly reporting to Parliament on conditional grants is, however, not institutionalised – Performance information included in the schedules to the DORA are limitd with a two year lag period • This presentation focusses on basic education, discussing the: – Funding model for Education – Reporting on the performance of conditional grants 4 Funding structure of DBE and Provincial DBEs 5 Overview of the funding structure • • • • The PES formula consist of six components that account for the demand of services The education component is weighted at 48 per cent, which is in line with historical expenditure patterns indicating needs The allocations per province is based on the size of the school- age population and the number of learners enrolled in public ordinary schools In 2019/20, provinces by the National Department of Basic Education: five conditional grants were transferred to • Education Infrastructure Grant • HIV and AIDS Life Skills Education • Children/Learners with Severe to Profound Intellectual Disability • Maths, Science and Technology • National School Nutrition Programme 6 Funding structure for the NDBE 7 Funding structure of provincial DBE *North West includes Sports Development 8 ECFSGTKZNLIMMPNCWCEconomic Classification 2019/20RevisedBaseline 2019/20RevisedBaseline
 2019/20RevisedBaseline 2019/20RevisedBaseline 2019/20RevisedBaseline 2019/20RevisedBaseline 2019/20RevisedBaseline 2019/20RevisedBaselinePayments100.0%100.0%100.0%100.0%100.0%100.0%100.0%100.0%Current Payments87.7%85.9%87.6%92.4%89.1%88.8%84.6%85.4%Compensation of employees 79.8%79.7%75.0%84.3%80.4%79.7%76.3%74.9%Goods and services 7.9%6.3%12.6%8.1%8.7%9.1%8.2%10.5%Transfers and subsidies8.4%9.5%8.6%3.8%7.7%7.7%8.2%10.1%Departmental agencies and accounts0.2%0.2%0.2%0.1%0.3%0.2%0.1%0.0%Non-profit
institutions7.6%9.1%7.6%3.5%6.9%6.1%7.5%9.6%Households0.6%0.1%0.8%0.2%0.6%1.4%0.6%0.4%Payments for capital assets4.0%4.6%3.8%3.8%3.2%3.5%7.2%4.5%Buildings and other fixed structures3.7%4.4%3.4%3.7%3.0%3.4%6.6%4.3%Grand Total36 328 51014 733 21449 809 55154 021 51532 291 00821 862 3256 905 81123 669 089 Methodology 9 • Evaluation of available data For the PBO to determine the efficiency and effectiveness of the expenditure of nationally raised revenue it is important to have access to: – Quality and complete sets of performance information to evaluate performance outcomes on expenditure – Performance indicators linked to the budget should be specific, relevant and – A series of continuous data to measure change over time to determine impact/effectiveness • Performance information from the 2019/20 Annual Report of the NDBE was arranged according: – To the purpose of the conditional grants – Expected output targets and actual outputs achieved in 2019/20 – Expenditure against the budget 10 Findings from the evaluation 11 HIV and AIDS Life Skills Education • The Department has spent R261.316 million (inclusive of roll- overs of R2.403 million) of the transferred funds amounting to R256.951 million • This expenditure amount reflects over spending of 1.7 per cent • Despite over spending on this grant, there has been underperformance on six (6) outputs and Provincial Education Departments only over-performed in two of the outcomes • Underperformance on: • The number of educators trained to implement comprehensive
 sexuality education • Co-curricular activities on provision of comprehensive sex education • Care and support programmes implemented • • The number of copies of CAPS-compliant materials The advocacy and social mobilisation events hosted with learners, educators and school community members School monitoring and support visits • 12 HIV and AIDS Life Skills Education (cont.)
• Over-performance on: • • The training of school management teams and governing bodies to develop policy implementation plans The expansion of the appointment of learner support agents to support vulnerable learners.
4 657 agents appointed compared to 3 200 agents (expected output) 13 Children/Learners with Severe to Profound Intellectual Disability (C/LSPID) • • The goal of this grant is: • To ensure that children/learners with severe to profound intellectual disability access quality publicly funded education and support The Department has spent R215.422 million of the original budget of R220.785 million to provide education to learners with severe to profound intellectual disabilities • R212.325 million was transferred to PEDs and R12.664 million unspent from the previous financial year • Performance is shown within four categories of outputs: • Human resources specific to inclusive education through the provision of key additional staff on a permanent basis • Database of selected schools and care centres • Transversal itinerant outreach team members, caregivers, teachers, in-service therapists and officials trained on the Learning Programme for C/LSPID and other programmes that support the delivery of the Learning Programme • Outreach services provided 14 Children/Learners with Severe to Profound Intellectual Disability (C/LSPID) (cont.)
• • It has been noted that almost all outputs are duplicated within the four categories • The Department also reflects over performance on the training of caregivers, teachers and in-service therapists This phenomenon could be viewed as double counting of outputs • Despite the under spending on the grant, provinces indicated that positions were not filled due to budget constraints, which could not be the case • Another concern is that only 482 special care centres and 58 schools were provided with learning and teaching support material against targets of 500 care centres and 104 schools 15 Conclusion • There seems to be a good correlation between the proportions spent by provinces on the economic classification categories • COE is the main driver of expenditure on provincial education • • • just in terms of the COE budgets, not budgets amounting between 75 and 80 per cent To be able to determine effectiveness of basic education, further analysis of the ratios between educators and learners, but also between educators and other administrative staff, is required Transfers and subsidies ranges between 3.8 per cent and 10.1 per cent, and spending on capital assets ranges between 3.2 per cent and 7.2 per cent between provinces The analysis of the information on the conditional grants shows: • • Overspending on underperformance In some instances no targets were set for outputs the grants, accompanied by some of • Underspending that is accompanied by over performance • Duplication of outputs • Outstanding performance information • Reporting on the performance not measured against set targets 16 Other Basic Education Grants NATIONAL SCHOOL NUTRITION PROGRAMME EDUCATION INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT MATHS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 17 National School Nutrition Programme Grant The goal of this grant is to enhance learning capacity and improve access to education The Department has spent R7.135 billion (99%) of the transferred funding of R7.186 billion to enhance learning capacity and improve access to education The Department that
 “performance on this grant was exceptionally ‘well’ because it exceeded the set to support target programme implementation Sustained partnerships also played a significant role in monitoring schools both at Provincial and District levels the output The performance is acknowledged, but detail of indicators and targets were not reflected in the schedules to the 2019 Division of Revenue Act (DORA) as required indicated in the 2019/20 Annual Report for monitoring schools • • • • • • Reporting on the performance of the grant in the Annual Report is therefore not measured against set targets 18 Education Infrastructure Grant • • • The goal of this grant is: • finances to fund the provision of To supplement provinces’ education infrastructure in line with the regulations relating to for public school minimum uniform norms and standards infrastructure identified, towards which funds have been The outputs allocated, to achieve this goal are meant to replace unsafe and inappropriate school structures and to provide water, sanitation and electricity on behalf of provinces The Department spent R10.728 billion (1% underspending) of the adjusted budget of R10.88 billion (original budget of R10.514 billion plus roll-over) • A total of 1 928 teaching spaces, 352 administrative spaces, 814 maintenance projects, 192 disaster projects, 591 water, 794 sanitations, 156 electricity, 173 fencing and 22 sports facilities were provided 19 Education Infrastructure Grant (cont.)
• • • The department has provided a total of: • • • 14 full-service schools 5 special schools 9 boarding schools and 43 new and replacement schools in relevant provinces The department, however, did not performance on the Education Infrastructure Grant The absence of set performance against planned outputs set targets makes it difficult to measure targets for the 20 Maths, Science and Technology Grant • • The goal of this grant is • To strengthen the implementation of the NDP and the 2019 Action plan by increasing the number of learners taking mathematics, science and technology subjects, improving the success rates in the subjects and improving teacher’s capabilities The Department spent R319.291 million (82%) of the transferred funding of R391.302 million (adjusted budget: R394.
357) to increase the number of learners taking MST subjects and to improve the capacity of teachers in these subjects • Performance is shown within five categories of outputs namely: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) • • Workshop Equipment, Machinery and Tools • • • Laboratories Equipment, Apparatus and Consumables Learner Support Teacher Support 21 Maths, Science and Technology Grant (cont.)
• Despite the underspending of 18 per cent, the Department reported over performance on almost all output targets except for targets set for workshop equipment, machinery and tools It completed their outputs for the 2019/20 financial year should further be noted that only eight provinces have • • Performance in Limpopo was still outstanding 22