PPADB faces funding challenges

In the latest annual report for 2016, PPADB executive chairperson Bridget John said funding is increasingly becoming a constraint on the Board’s ability to carry out its mandate.

During the previous financial year, she said, the board projected a budget deficit as the subvention from the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development and the internally generated funds forecast were insufficient to cater for all prioritised planned projects for the financial year. “These were once-off projects expected to cost P13 million including research and consultancies, ICT equipment such as servers, and related expenditure in preparation for the opening of the Francistown office,” John said.