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Estimates of the Provincial Revenue and Expenditure (EPRE) – 2023/24 Financial Year

8.7.1 Service Delivery Measures

Table 30: Selected service delivery measures for the programme: P7: Agricultural Education and Training

Estimated
performance Medium-term estimates
Programme performance measures 2022/23 2023/24 2024/25 2025/26
Number of students enrolled to complete accredited Higher Education and Training (HET) qualifications 600 600 700 750
Number of students graduated from Agricultural Training Institutes. 155 155 215 250
Number of participants trained in skills development programmes in the sector 2 000 2 000 2 300 2 300
Number of Farm-Workers completing accredited and/ or non-accredited training to develop skilled Farm-Workers 250 250 250 250
The programme will ensure that the strategic partners and other role-players provide quality farmer training
and other identified capabilities necessary to improve farming as a business. The strategy has identified
farmers training as one of the agreed upon indicators in the service level agreement which must be closely
monitored.

8.8 Programme 8: Rural Development
Objectives: To coordinate the development programmes by stakeholders in rural areas. It has 2 sub
programmes:
x Development Coordination: To initiate, plan and monitor development in specific rural areas (CRDP sites)
across the three spheres of government in order to address needs that have been identified; and
x Social facilitation: To engage communities on priorities and to institutionalise and support community
organisational structures (NGOs etc.)

Table 32: Summary of departmental payments and estimates sub-programme: P8 – Rural Development

Main Adjusted
Outcome Revised estimate Medium-term estimates % change
appropriation appropriation
R thousand 2019/20 2020/21 2021/22 2022/23 2023/24 2024/25 2025/26 from 2022/23
1. Rural Development Coordination 267 028 237 508 210 763 188 316 188 316 188 991 192 956 201 639 210 908 2.1
2. Social Facilitation 18 263 15 524 18 140 25 180 21 844 21 171 18 973 18 275 19 105 (10.4)
Total payments and estimates 285 291 253 032 228 903 213 496 210 160 210 162 211 929 219 914 230 013 0.8

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