Acting Speaker, hon members, including hon McGluwa, may be aware that the War on Poverty programme was created to accelerate service delivery by identifying beneficiaries who are entitled to receive already existing services from government, but for some reason or other are not. Once these beneficiaries are identified, their characteristics profiled and the services that they are entitled to identified, the War on Poverty programme then refers them to the appropriate department or agency where the budget for the particular service resides. Thus, for example, if the service needed is an identity document, then we bring in people from Home Affairs to process that application.
To this end, the War on Poverty programme does not have a dedicated budget, but the approach aims to address gaps where an existing service does not reach the beneficiary.
An important feature to also note is that once the service that has been referred to is rendered, the department or agency does not account for it separately from the rest of the services extended to all citizens. Thank you for your attention.