Transcript EXPANDED PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMME

THE EXPANDED PUBLIC
WORKS PROGRAMME
(EPWP)
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INTRODUCTION
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BACKGROUND
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President’s State of the Nation Address February 2003
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Growth and Development Summit June 2003
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Cabinet approved conceptual framework November 2003
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NEW NATIONAL POVERTY RELIEF FUNDING
ARRANGEMENTS
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No special poverty relief allocation (SPRA) from 2004/05
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Some previously SPRA-funded programmes to be continued through
line-function budgets, eg working for water
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No funding for CBPWP from 2004/05. Former CBPWP funds to be
integrated into municipal infrastructure grant (MIG)
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Consolidated municipal infrastructure programme (CMIP) to be phased
out and replaced by MIG
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DPW will not be given funds for projects, no applications to DPW for
funds
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DEFINITION
Nation-wide programme which will draw significant
numbers of the unemployed into productive work, so
that workers gain skills while they work, and increase
their capacity to earn an income
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OBJECTIVE
To utilise public sector budgets to reduce and
alleviate unemployment
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This will be achieved by:
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Creating productive employment opportunities
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Increasing the labour intensity of government-funded
infrastructure projects
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Creating work opportunities in public environmental
programmes (eg Working for Water)
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Creating work opportunities in public social programmes (eg
community health workers)
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Utilising general government expenditure on goods and services
to provide the work experience component of small enterprise
learnership / incubation programmes
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Enhancing the ability of workers to earn an income,
either through the labour market or through
entrepreneurial activity
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Provide unemployed people with work experience
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Provide education and skills development programmes to
the workers
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Gov ernme nt Strategie s
(not m utually e xclus ive )
Expanded Public
W orks
Programme
Goal
Re duce pove rty by
the alleviation/
r eduction of
une m ploym ent
Improve s ocial
security net
Utilise government
expenditure to
alleviate and reduc e
unemploy ment
Improve
enabling
environment
Improve
education
sytem
Balance
economic
grow th w ith
grow th in EAP
Inter vent ion
type
Govt. social
welfare b udget
Govt. budget/
procurement
Regulation
Education
policy
Macro-economic
policies
Impa ct
timescal e
Short/
medium-term
Short/
medium-term
Medium/long
term
Long-term
Medium/long
term
(EAP = ec onomically active population)
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TARGETS, SCOPE, AND INSTITUTIONAL
ARRANGEMENTS
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TARGETS
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Target the unemployed and marginalised
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To provide one million employment opportunities with
training to unemployed people, within the first five years of
the programme
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SCOPE
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Covers all spheres of government and SOE’s
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Each public body must formulate plans for utilising its
budget to draw significant numbers of the unemployed into
productive work, and to provide them with training
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INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS
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Overall coordination by EPWP unit in DPW
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DG’s Steering Committee
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Sector coordinating Dept’s: DEAT, DTI, DSD
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Link to NEDLAC Public Works committee
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Provinces to establish provincial committees to drive the
programme
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EMPLOYMENT CONDITIONS
AND TRAINING
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EMPLOYMENT CONDITIONS
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Employment conditions during work experience will be
governed by the following frameworks gazetted by DOL:
 Code of Good Practice for Special Public Works
Programmes, or
 Learnership Determination for unemployed learners
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Key aspects of the EPWP employment conditions
frameworks:
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Gazetted after negotiations at NEDLAC
Allow for special conditions of employment to facilitate greater
employment on Public Works Programmes:
 Employers may set rates of pay locally at self-targeting rates, to
avoid attracting workers away from more permanent
employment
 Reduced obligations for employers, eg no UIF insurance
payments
 Task-based payment for labour-intensive works
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These special conditions of employment are on condition
that:
 Workers have an entitlement to training
 The duration of employment of a worker under these
special conditions is limited
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Training: examples of possible exit strategies
Exit EPWP with work experience
and training after max 2 years
Examples of exit strategies
Unemployed enter
EPWP and obtain
work experience and
training, under special
conditions of
employment
- Employment with a new employer
- Further education and training
- Better equipped work seeker
- Self employment
- Ongoing employment with same
employer, at normal conditions of
employment
EPWP
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TRAINING
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In the social and economic sectors, there are long-term
employment opportunities for the trainees, and all the trainees
will receive sector-specific training – key role for SETAs
For infrastructure projects and some environmental projects,
manual labour is locally employed for the duration of the
project, and there are few long-term employment opportunities
in these sectors for manual labour
However, there are some long-term employment opportunities
for contractors, supervisory staff, artisans, and maintenance
workers in these sectors
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SETAs to play a key role in training of contractors,
managerial and supervisory staff and artisans – eg CETA
already doing this for infrastructure sector
Training for manual workers employed for the duration of the
project must be focused on other areas, where there are
longer-term income opportunities
Success of training for temporarily employed manual workers
depends on our ability to establish links with other GDS
programmes, and other government programmes such as
LED and adult FET
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DOL putting in place a generic short course for temporarily
employed manual workers, focusing on life skills and labourmarket information
Aim of short-course is to provide workers with information
about other opportunities, after the EPWP project, such as
internships, learnerships, and further education and training.
Temporary employment on EPWP projects could be a
stepping-stone to other longer-term opportunities
Generic short course could also include assessment and
selection elements, EPWP projects could be used as a
mechanism to select workers for other opportunities
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INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAMMES
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Plan in place for labour-intensive construction and
maintenance of provincial and municipal infrastructure:
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Targets types of civils infrastructure most amenable to use of
labour-intensive methods, where large numbers of additional
work opportunities can be created
Departments and SOE’s encouraged to do more
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Total conditional infrastructure grants over next five
years = R45 bn (targeting 1/3 of this)
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At least R15 bn will be spent on labour-intensive
upgrading of rural and municipal roads and
municipal pipelines, stormwater drains, and
sidewalks over the next five years
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Aim to create work opportunities for 750 000 targeted
unemployed people (250 000 person-years of
employment)
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Implementation of the labour-intensive provincial
and municipal infrastructure programme
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EPWP conditions will be included in the Division of Revenue
Act (DORA) for the conditional provincial and municipal
infrastructure grants (PIG and MIG):
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Certain types of infrastructure projects must be done labourintensively projects, in accordance with DPW guidelines
DPW guidelines cover identifying, designing, and producing tender
documentation for labour-intensive projects
Guidelines require provinces and municipalities to apply eligibility
requirements for appointment of contractors and engineers on
labour intensive projects (they must be qualified in the use of
labour intensive methods)
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Provinces and municipalities prioritise and decide on projects using
their PIG and MIG funding, using normal allocation methods, such as
Integrated Development Plans (IDPs)
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National not involved in allocation of funds to projects – provinces
and municipalities allocate in line with DORA conditions
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DPW will provide support to provinces and municipalities to simplify
implementation
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Possible funding assistance for support from Business Trust
(Facilitation Fund) and donors
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CETA and DPW putting in place NQF unit standards, qualifications,
and accredited training programmes for contractors and engineers for
labour-intensive construction
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Training:
 All 750 000 workers will obtain training funded by the
Department of Labour
 CETA-funded learnerships for 500 emerging contractors in
labour-intensive construction
 Learner contractors will receive classroom and on-site training,
exit from the programme with qualifications, experience, and
credit record
 Graduate contractors will tender for ongoing labour-intensive
projects issued by government
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 DORA conditions are aimed at creating a minimum
amount of labour-intensive construction. Government
bodies are encouraged to do more
 Other infrastructure programmes with potential (plans still
to be developed), eg maintenance of government buildings,
trenching in the electrification programme
 Aim to create a further 150 000 work opportunities (50 000
person-years) for targeted unemployed people from other
infrastructure programmes over the next five years
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ENVIRONMENTAL AND CULTURAL
PROGRAMMES
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Includes:
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DOA Land Care programme
DEAT People and Parks, Coastal Care, Sustainable Land-based
Livelihoods, Cleaning up SA, Growing a Tourism Economy
programmes
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DWAF Working for Water, Wetlands, Fire programmes
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DAC programmes
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Aim to create work opportunities for 200 000 targeted
unemployed people over the next five years (200 000 personyears of employment)
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Aim to create 400 sustainable SMME’s
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Scope for further expansion, eg waste management
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SOCIAL PROGRAMMES
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DSD to produce sector plan
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Initial focus of social sector initiatives:
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Home-based care workers - Community Health Workers
(DOH) and Community-based Care and Support Workers
(DSD) – target 2.9 million beneficiaries from services
Early childhood development (ECD) workers (DOE and
DSD) – target 400 000 children serviced
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SOCIAL PROGRAMMES
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150 000 unemployed to acquire temporary work and income
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NGO’s and CBO’s to continue as other delivery agents of
social sector programmes, funded by government and possibly
business
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Learnerships consisting of recruitment of unemployed people
and volunteers, providing them with on-the-job experience, a
stipend and training for a period, leading to NQF qualifications
and possible longer-term income opportunities
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ECONOMIC PROGRAMMES
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12 000 unemployed to acquire temporary work
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3 000 venture capital learnerships
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Possible economic sector initiatives:
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Community production centres (DoA)
Community-based / cooperative income generating projects
(GDS) (possible funding from business)
Enterprise ‘incubator’ / learnership programmes (DOL, DTI)
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FUNDING
SECTOR
ALLOCATIONS TO EPWP
PROGRAMMESS
2004/5 – 2008/9
Infrastructure
R15 billion
Environmental and
cultural
Social
R 4 billion
Economic
To be determined
R 600 million
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SUMMARY OVER FIRST FIVE YEARS
Se ctor
Work
opportunitie s
Infrastructure
750 000 (four months
average duration)
Environmental
200 000 (one year
and cultural
average duration)
Social (excluding 150 000 (average two
home-based
years duration)
care)
Economic
3000 venture
learnerships (18
months duration)
9000 employees
Totals
1 million plus
Pe rsonye ars
300 000
200 000
40 000
18 000
500 000 plus
PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION
TIMEFRAMES
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Complete remaining aspects of all Implementation plans
Implementation has started on parts of sectoral plans
which are ready:
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Preparations for labour-intensive infrastructure
programmes are under way, some programmes are
running, expansion from April 2004
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Environmental programmes are running
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