Programme 2 receives a total allocation of R61.2 million for the 2013/14 financial year. The budget for the programme increases over the medium term from R61.2 million in 2013/14 to R69.9 million in 2014/15 and R77.3 million in 2015/16. The largest increase in MTEF allocations is in the Evaluation and Research sub-programme which increases from R20.1 million in 2013/14 to R30.1 million in 2015/16. Funds have been reprioritised to this programme from other programmes to cater for evaluations and new policy initiatives such as local government performance assessments, and monitoring and evaluation systems. Eight evaluations were initiated during the 2012/13 financial year and one evaluation report has been concluded by the end of 2012/13 financial year. An amount of R12 million is allocated for evaluations in 2013/14, R15 million in 2014/15 and R20 million in 2015/16. Furthermore, the Programme of Action data support function and its related budget is to be moved from Programme 3 to Programme 2.