Name of Contact:
Dr. Timothy Thahane, Minister of Finance and Development Planning

Mr. Malefetsane Masasa, Director Development Planning
t: +266 2231 1100
e: mmasasa@finance.gov.ls

Key Contact:
Moshoeshoe Sebothama, Assistant Economic Planner, Social Protection Unit, Department for Development Planning
e: gstmoshoeshoe@gmail.com

Deborah Hardoon, Economic Planner, Department for Development Planning
m: +266 5959 7072
e: dnhardoon@googlemail.com

Postal Address:
PO Box 630
Maseru 100
Lesotho

Physical Address:
Room # 158 Africa House
Government Office Complex
Maseru

Under the DDP Director: Aid Coordination, Social Protection Unit, Sectoral Policies, Regional Integration, Project Cycle Management

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Predominately other Government Ministries, NAC, EU, UNDP

Facilitate the development of Lesotho, working towards achieving the Vision 2020 goals.

Government Funded National Policies to address the care and needs of OVC:

• Child Cash Grants
• School Feeding Programme
• OVC Bursaries

Please note that these projects are done by other ministries, the role of the Ministry of Finance and Development is financing, monitoring and evaluation.

DDP will be leading on drafting of the National Development Plan (NDP) 2011-2016. The Plan will mainstream key cross cutting issues that Lesotho faces, including HIV and AIDS, gender, environment and OVC, whilst developing a strategy for sectoral policies to work towards achieving the growth of Lesotho, poverty reduction, Vision 2020 goals and the MDGs.

Our plan is to take OVC to schools that provide better education. We are working hard to avoid these schools that provide free education and food at the same time we are focusing on schools that provide quality education to children.

Financial resources to expand our trainings and daily activities.

Training Needs:
Training in home based care and counseling.
Training on how to handle OVC and HIV/AIDS patients.