In relation to its budget and funding, the NSA receives a budget allocation from the DHET through voted funds and in the main, these funds are for administration activities such as personnel expenses for staff and administration and logistics. The NSA Secretariat is housed within the Skills Development branch of the Department. Other NSA activities such as the skills conference, provincial consultations are funded from the NSF allocation. For the period under review, compensation of employees was R2.7 billion, good and services R1.7 billion and expenditure R7.4 billion.