. The Committee noted with concern the disparity between Programme 1 and the rest of the Programmes namely 2, 3 and 4 with respect to budgetary allocation and resourcing. To this end, notwithstanding the importance of the functions located within Programme 1, there are 152 posts which comprises 73% of the Departmental establishment yet Programmes 2, 3 and 4 which drives the core functions of the Department are significantly under-staffed to effectively undertake advocacy initiatives, institutional support and capacity building and monitoring and evaluation at a national scale.