{"id":176621,"date":"2024-07-15T20:16:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T18:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zw10m-basic-education-funds-lying-idle-losing-value-due-to-outdated-manual-ag-report\/"},"modified":"2024-07-15T20:16:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T18:16:25","slug":"zimbabwe-zw10m-basic-education-funds-lying-idle-losing-value-due-to-outdated-manual-ag-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zw10m-basic-education-funds-lying-idle-losing-value-due-to-outdated-manual-ag-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: ZW$10m Basic Education Funds Lying Idle, Losing Value Due to Outdated Manual &#8211; AG Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">GOVERNMENT last year failed to use a total of ZWL$10,3 billion that was allocated towards vulnerable children under the Basic Education Assistance Module (BEAM), it has emerged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Acting Auditor-General Rheah Kujinga, in her latest report, said the funds were not utilised due to absence of an effective mechanism to identify beneficiaries and non-reimbursement of funds utilised to meet parent ministry expenditures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The BEAM operational manual is now outdated and not user friendly, having not been&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407150113.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOVERNMENT last year failed to use a total of ZWL$10,3 billion that was allocated towards vulnerable children under the Basic Education Assistance Module (BEAM), it has emerged. Acting Auditor-General Rheah Kujinga, in her latest report, said the funds were not utilised due to absence of an effective mechanism to identify beneficiaries and non-reimbursement of funds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,10789,6605,1632,5782,26887,10575,11399,16344,257,29685,5144,254,4686,421,49046],"class_list":["post-176621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-basic","tag-due","tag-education","tag-funds","tag-idle","tag-losing","tag-lying","tag-manual","tag-news","tag-outdated","tag-report","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zw10m"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}