1. 1st QUARTER CONDITIONAL GRANTS SPENDING: LAND CARE PROGRAMME GRANT
30 August 2011

2. PURPOSE OF THE GRANT PURPOSE:
To enhance the sustainable conservation of natural agriculture resources through a community-based participatory
To create job opportunities through the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP)
To create an enabling environment for improved food security
The allocation criteria uses an index comprising of nodes, land capability (production), poverty, degradation and land size.

3. Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries – Land Care Programme

4. Comments on first quarter expenditure
Only 5.5% of the budget has been spent.
There was a year-on-year declines in the spending of Eastern Cape, Gauteng and KZN.
The 1st quarter performance reports outlines the following challenges:
Delays in procurement processes in certain provinces (EC)
A number of provinces reported no jobs created against targets (EC, FS, NW)
Free State, Limpopo and North West reported that no land users benefitted from the programme in their provinces.
Five provinces (FS, Gauteng, Northern Cape, North West and Western Cape) reported no hectares of cultivated land were rehabilitated or protected.
The national Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has expressed concern regarding late submission of performance reports by provinces in terms of the DORA.

5. Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries – Land Care Programme

6. THANK YOU