The Department provide funding to variety of NPOs to render Social development services in all nine Provinces. These NPOs are functional as they deliver of much needed services. Functional NPOs do receive the funding based on the amounts agreed upon the service level agreements (SLAs).
Certain processes are followed before the funds are transferred to these functional organizations including:
Most of the funds that were returned to National Treasury related to the ECD conditional grant and as such cannot be diverted to other programmes.
In addition, NPO’s are also exposed to capacity building programmes that empowers them on number of aspects including financial management, governance and resource mobilization. All these efforts are aimed at empowering NPOs to render quality
services and to empower them to mobilize resources from various sources thus building a sustainable NPO sector in the country.