NPO FUNDING PAYMENTS @KASIBC_NEWS

NPO FUNDING PAYMENTS @KASIBC_NEWS 

The Gauteng Department of Social Development is ramping up the finalization of signing of SLAs with NPOs. Since the beginning of the current financial year, the Department has issued 1640 SLAs to NPOs, and 1424 of these have been signed and concluded.  The outstanding number of SLAs stands at 216, and warning letters were issued to the NPOs and the deadline for SLAs to be received back is this week. 

The Department would like to make a call to the outstanding NPOs to fast track the signing of SLAs. The Department has been meeting with NPOs which has positively resulted in increase in the number of SLAs received back.  

The Department would also like to report that 818 payments have been made against SLAs signed already, to the tune of R279 million. 

This number keeps improving as payment runs happen. The Department has been receiving media inquiries about the NPOs that have not been paid. Whilst we cannot discuss and divulge financial information of individual NPOs, we are calling on such NPOs to contact their regional offices and M & E officials for status of their SLAs.  

There have been delays with regards to organizations in the HIV & AIDS Sector to finalize SLAs due to compliance with the children's act, where all NPOs that deal with children must comply with the legislation regulating the child protection environment. 

The Department held a meeting with affected NPOs on Friday, and the matter has been resolved. 

The Democratic Alliance is also hopelessly trying to distract us from the work at hand but issuing populistic media statements which are nothing but an attempt to force relevance. 

MEC Mazibuko is more committed to ensuring that NPOs that meet all requirements are processed accordingly and won’t be involved in political mudslinging with the DA, a party that is failing to find resonance with the hearts and minds of people of Gauteng.