The budget framework makes provision for funding allocations of R15 billion to rural development, land reform and agricultural development. However, the budget allocation to the lead departments in the implementation of rural development constituted less than two per cent of the total national budget. HSRC indicated that current levels of spending on rural development was far below the 2003 Maputo Declaration which stated that every Southern African Development Community (SADC) member is to allocate 10 per cent of the national budget for agricultural development.