The Vangasali campaign is progressing fairly well and is scheduled to continue until at least end of March 2022. There are three phases to Vangasali, the first was data collection which happened between June and October 2020 and resulted in a database of 52,288 ECD services which includes centre and non-centre based services.
Phase 2 focussed on orientation of provincial, district and local officials from DSD and Environmental Practitioners at local level in preparation for phase 3.
The Phase 3 will then focus on the registration massification which will commence in 2021/22 financial year.
(a)Current status on registration:
PROVINCE |
(i) NUMBER OF FULLY REGISTERED |
(ii)NUMBER OF CONDITIONALLY REGISTERED |
(iii)NUMBER OF UNREGISTERED SERVICES |
EC |
1 174 |
1 816 |
1 685 |
FS |
310 |
972 |
1 674 |
GP |
1 242 |
624 |
13 717 |
KZN |
1 696 |
1 854 |
4 516 |
LP |
478 |
3 021 |
2 695 |
MP |
578 |
919 |
3 011 |
NC |
95 |
197 |
660 |
NW |
386 |
842 |
2 188 |
WC |
850 |
635 |
4 839 |
TOTAL |
6 423 |
10 880 |
34 985 |
(b)(i) The campaign was a success as the department was able to get the data base of the majority of ECD services that are not registered. This will assist the department in planning on assisting those services to be supported to register.
This database will be used in phase 2 of the project to drive registration massification and verify the existence of all these services.
Phase 2 began in October 2020 and builds on the great collaboration with Department of Health, Environmental Health Directorate that has been ongoing over the last four years. Phase 2 has so far resulted in the following:
Phase 3 of Vangasali is in the planning phase and involves bringing sector wide collaboration on resourcing and improving infrastructure at ECD services, drawing in the private sector, civil society and government resources into a focused effort on improving ECD services directly in line with norms and standards.
(ii) Some of the challenges that have been identified during the campaign include amongst the other:
The data has been cleaned to deal with the duplicates. The data is now instrumental during verification process on the ECD Stimulus Relief Package to check the applicants against the Vangasali data base.