The Accelerated Schools Infrastructure Delivery Initiative doesn’t deliver
Not a single school has been provided with electricity through the government’s Accelerated Schools Infrastructure Delivery Initiative (Asidi) programme in the previous financial year‚ MPs heard this week. The Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) briefed the parliamentary portfolio committee on basic education after it expressed concern over the Department of Basic Education’s poor performance in achieving targets for the Asidi. The department introduced Asidi in 2011 to address poor school infrastructure and to prioritise schools with no infrastructure or basic services. Representatives of the commission told MPs they are concerned about the poor achievement of performance targets in the programme that range from 0% to 27%. The department’s figures show it planned to provide electricity to 620 schools in the last financial year (2016-17)‚ yet none of these plans was realised. Despite the 306 schools the department did manage to provide with electricity between 2011 and the 2015-16...
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