{"id":23952,"date":"2023-03-20T19:23:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T19:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/dpms-office-seeks-budget-approval-from-house-of-assembly"},"modified":"2023-03-21T11:49:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T11:49:24","slug":"dpms-office-seeks-budget-approval-from-house-of-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/dpms-office-seeks-budget-approval-from-house-of-assembly","title":{"rendered":"DPM\u2019S OFFICE SEEKS BUDGET APPROVAL FROM HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. <\/strong><\/span><b>Deputy Prime Minister\u2019s Office has requested the House of Assembly to approve their budget amounting to E850 094 896.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This was revealed in the report of the Portfolio Committee of the DPM\u2019s office on the ministry\u2019s annual performance report for the financial year 2022\/2023 and the budget estimates for the financial year 2023\/2024.<\/p>\n<p>The amount requested for approval comprises of E846 692 896 for recurrent expenditures and E3 402 000 for the capital projects.<\/p>\n<p>In the reporting period under review, the Committee sat twice. The first meeting was when the actual debate took place in the House of Assembly Chamber on March 14, 2023 and was held in the Parliament Main Conference Room.<\/p>\n<p>In the report, the DPM Themba Nhlanganiso Masuku motivates the approval of his office budget by highlighting what the office has done.<\/p>\n<p>Worth noting the Office is entrusted with the responsibility of coordinating Social Welfare, Children, Gender and Family Issues, Disability Issues and Disaster Risk Reduction, mitigation and response issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChairperson, the office was allocated a total budget of E756 227 140 of which E6 million was a capital investment for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities Home in Mankayane.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of the total allocation, a sum of E755 907 145 was released for expenditure, of which E611 139 807 was spent resulting in a variance of E144 736 093 which is 19 per cent. A large balance of the released funds is meant to pay grants for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities for the remaining period. The Office will incur over expenditure emanating from the OVC and Elderly Persons due to the limited budget that was allocated,\u201d read the DPM\u2019s preamble.<\/p>\n<p>The preamble further reports that the office continued to focus on social safety needs intervention programmes arising from various causes such as storms, food insecurity, heat waves, drought, economic shocks among others. The Vulnerability Assessment Analysis (VAA) pointed out that 182 000 which is 16 percent of the population were food insecure between June to September, while it significantly increases to a cumulative 258 800 people between October and March.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMitigating the food challenge, the Kirsh Foundation was utilised through cash-based transfers of an amount of E71 858 400 of the E92 million received thus reaching out to 18 556 households with 92 780 beneficiaries which are chronic food insecure since its inception. \u201cThe Finnish Red Cross and European Union Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid has served a total of 10 933 households, with 65 691 people mainly in the Lubombo and Shiselweni regions through cash transfers,\u201d read the preamble in part.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\">Eswatini<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. Deputy Prime Minister\u2019s Office has requested the House of Assembly to approve their budget amounting to E850 094 896. This was revealed in the report of the Portfolio Committee of the DPM\u2019s office on the ministry\u2019s annual performance report for the financial year 2022\/2023 and the budget estimates for the financial year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":23950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[234,248,249],"class_list":["post-23952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-eswatini","tag-eswatini"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DPM\u2019S OFFICE SEEKS BUDGET APPROVAL FROM HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY - Eswatini<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Deputy Prime Minister\u2019s Office has requested the House of Assembly to approve their budget amounting to E850 094 896. ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/dpms-office-seeks-budget-approval-from-house-of-assembly\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DPM\u2019S OFFICE SEEKS BUDGET APPROVAL FROM HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Deputy Prime Minister\u2019s Office has requested the House of Assembly to approve their budget amounting to E850 094 896. ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/dpms-office-seeks-budget-approval-from-house-of-assembly\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Eswatini\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-03-20T19:23:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-03-21T11:49:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1679327707.89.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"755\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/dpms-office-seeks-budget-approval-from-house-of-assembly#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/dpms-office-seeks-budget-approval-from-house-of-assembly\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"DPM\u2019S OFFICE SEEKS BUDGET APPROVAL FROM HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-03-20T19:23:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-03-21T11:49:24+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/dpms-office-seeks-budget-approval-from-house-of-assembly\"},\"wordCount\":420,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/dpms-office-seeks-budget-approval-from-house-of-assembly#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1679327707.89.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Eswatini\",\"Eswatini\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/dpms-office-seeks-budget-approval-from-house-of-assembly#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/dpms-office-seeks-budget-approval-from-house-of-assembly\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/dpms-office-seeks-budget-approval-from-house-of-assembly\",\"name\":\"DPM\u2019S OFFICE SEEKS BUDGET APPROVAL FROM HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY - 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