The National Development Agency Strategic Plan is an agency-specific strategic plan for the National Development Agency (NDA) of South Africa. It is applicable to the period of 2012-2017. Its mission is to facilitate sustainable development by strengthening civil society organisations involved in poverty eradication through enhanced grant funding and research. The Strategic Plan provides for measures to ensure food security. In particular, it notes that in addressing food security challenges, the NDA has identified its target as the rural poor, especially women, the elderly, children and people with disabilities. The NDA’s strategic interventions will focus on the following: funding of agricultural projects (providing grants to food security related community-based projects); partnering organizations engaged in food security activities (resource sharing and collaboration); capacity development (skilling people to effectively use the land for food production); research (continuously monitoring the food security status), and policy development, lobbying and advocacy. Additionally, the NDA plans to aid early childhood development among others by interventions that support food security, strengthen the institutional, leadership and management capacity; and improve the infrastructure. The Plan also pertains to the issue of income generation. The responses to the NDA strategy for developing sustainable income generation initiatives include, amongst others: (1) the resourcing of innovative programmes and projects that are sustainable; and (2) the economic empowerment of women and young people through skills acquisition for them to initiate and manage various trades and economic opportunities. The Plan also notes about its mandate and policy implementation mechanisms. According to the document, NDA’s specific mandate is to support CSOs by granting funds to implement programmes and projects aimed at eradicating poverty and also to facilitate debate to inform development policy. It adds that the implementation of interventions mentioned above will be at provincial level. The value split percentage of the total allocation to provinces will be made in accordance with the approved formula derived from the population index. In delivering on the above, the NDA will have a specific bias towards vulnerable groups including women, children, people with disabilities and poor communities. The delivery of these key interventions will be supported by specific identified products and services, namely grant funding, programme management and resource mobilisation.
南非 · 2012-01-01