The Chairperson of the advisory board in the Eastern Cape, Mr Ayanda Matiti raised concerns about funding of NYDA, whether the funding from national should or supposed to be centralized to the provinces, because currently the NYDA in the province was not receiving any funding, they had to request the province to get funds. The Chairperson also raised concerns in regard to NYDA structural alignment whether it was correctly located and whether it was serving its purpose, that NYDA was top heavy and was not accessible to all the areas in the Eastern Cape especially the rural areas.