Pretoria - The new board of the National Development Agency (NDA) is set to be inaugurated on Monday evening, and already expectations are high.
"I am confident that the new board will give proper guidance to the Agency to ensure that it meets our government and our people's expectations, particularly in fulfilling its core mandate of poverty eradication and empowering civil society organisations," Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini said today.
The minister further encouraged the new board to lead the transition from a supervisory board to one that provides oversight and guidance. "The decisions that will be taken at that level must be inspired by government's desire to create more jobs and fight poverty as outlined in the State of the Nation Address", she explained.
Mandated with contributing towards poverty eradication and its causes, the agency grants funds to civil society and community based organizations.
Minister Dlamini stressed that government is eagerly waiting to see how the new board will make the NDA move forward and enhance its functioning.
The board is a broad based multi-stakeholder entity composed of eminent South Africans in the fields of community development, business, civil society and faith-based organisations. The board will serve for a period of three years.
The inauguration of the 11 board members is set to take place at the Impala Road Kliprivier Nature Reserve in Johannesburg.
