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Department: 6RFLDO 'HYHORSPHQW
           3. 3. Outlook for the coming financial year (2023/24)


           x   Gender Based Violence (shelters and psychosocial support services):  Based on the mandate of providing
               psychosocial support services to victims of crime and violence, the department makes contribution in all
               the six pillars of the National Strategic Plan (NSP) on Gender Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF),
               while also leading Pillar 4 of the which focuses on Response, Care, Support and Healing. A target of 360
               victims of GBVF and crime will access sheltering services.
           x   Provision of care support and protection of older persons, will continue, 1 485 older persons will access
               residential facilities. Community-Based Care and Support Services will also be funded, benefiting 15 264
               older persons and Community-Based Rehabilitation programmes will benefit 21 984 people with
               disabilities.
           x   For Psychosocial Support Services, the department is targeting 57 269 beneficiaries.  For Social Relief
               programmes, 4 462 people are targeted in all regions.
           x   Furthermore, the department will embark on capacity development of social service practitioners and
               other stakeholders on psychosocial support to harmonise interventions for orphaned, vulnerable children
               and youth and adults infected and affected by HIV and AIDS. The home community based care projects
               will continue to be funded to improve access to services by the communities.
           x   To strengthen the family unit as a basic centre of service delivery implementation, the department will
               continue to subsidise NGO’s, family resource centres and family preservation programmes. A total of 21
               488 family members will participate in family preservation services and 54 406 children will be placed with
               valid foster care orders. The department will ensure that at least 25 045 children benefit  through
               community based prevention and early intervention programmes. The department will continue to
               implement integrated social crime prevention programme in hot spot areas targeting children and families
               at risk. A total of 61 080 people will be reached through social crime prevention programmes, and 22 927
               victims of crime and violence will access support services. In fighting the scourge of crime and violence,
               which continues to pose a threat to the social stability of the province the department, will continue to
               support and strengthen victim empowerment programme centres that aim to provide integrated services
               and programmes to victims of crime and violence and their families. The department will strengthen
               Substance Abuse Prevention programmes by supporting 105 558 people.
           x   Institutional capacity building and support is an empowerment programme aimed at capacitating and
               providing support to community cased organisations, NPOs and Cooperatives towards improved
               community services. A total 407 NPOs will be capacitated and 5 979 people will access food through DSD
               Community Nutrition and Development programmes.
           x   Youth development programmes will focus  on supporting youth  development structures and
               entrepreneurship development initiatives through skills development programmes. The department will
               implement skills development by providing a foundation for youth to enter a range of qualification based
               training on community development methodologies and technical scarce skills as a response to youth
               unemployment through theory and practice,  where 1 916 young people will participate in skills
               development programmes.
           x   The department will conduct its annual household profiling and a target of 27 865 households will be
               reached.  With regards to women empowerment, the department has planned 9 400 women to benefit.



           4. 4. Reprioritisation


           The department has made provision for budget increase for operations of all institutions managed by the
           department. The department has reprioritised its budget to core items to improve service delivery.  It has
           made provision for budget increase  for operations of all institutions  managed by  the department.  The
           department has ensured that funds are reprioritized to Gender Based Violence, Substance Abuse, Sanitary
           Dignity Project, Social Behavioral Change and family programmes to  mention  few. The department has






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