The Minister of Social Development, Ms Lindiwe Zulu, launched the Child Poverty and The Child Support Grant (CSG) Review Report on Friday, 06 October, in Johannesburg, Gauteng.The review will amongst other issues, reflect on the state of child poverty in the country, documenting the policy process in the development and expansion of the CSG, and reviewing the impact of the CSG on child poverty. The CSG has been successful at reaching a large number of poor children with relative ease and it has the most pro-poor targeting record of all the existing social grants. The Child Support Grant has successfully reached 13 million children to the value of R510 a month per child. The allocated CSG budget for the 2022/23 financial year was R77 billion.South Africa's social assistance programme stands as a globally recognised model, acknowledged for its strategic role as the nation's primary poverty alleviation initiative. In 2022, the World Bank report on Inequality in Southern Africa, also identified South Africa’s Child Support Grant as the programme with the largest impact on poverty and the widest coverage of the poor.