The MINISTER IN THE PRESIDENCY - NATIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION (on behalf of the Minister in the presidency - Performance Monitoring and Evaluation AS well as Administration): Chairperson, the National Youth Development Agency, NYDA, was formed in June 2009. Four months is not a long time to establish the programmes, especially since the characters of the two organisations that have been brought together to form the NYDA, namely the Umsobomvu Youth Fund and the National Youth Commission, were vastly different. Their mandates were different. The Umsobomvu Youth Fund was funded from the demutualisation levy and the National Youth Commission was essentially a representative body without much programme support.