Transcript EXPANDED PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMME

Implementing the EPWP in the Infrastructure Sector
2 March 2005
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INTRODUCTION
TO THE EPWP
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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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National Launch in May by President
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KZN Provincial Launch in August by Deputy President
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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
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 INSTTUTIONAL
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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Implementation in infrastructure
• EPWP involves the large-scale
re-orientation of line budgets so
that government expenditure
results in more work opportunities
•All public bodies are expected to
contribute to the programme
•The conditionalities that are
attached to the Provincial
Infrastructure Grant (PIG) and
Municipal Infrastructure Grant
(MIG) are contained in the
Guidelines
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Infrastructure Sector: Provinces
Department of
Public Works
Support to
province
National
Treasury
Provinces
report
indicators
Equitable Share
Province
Other Provincial
Expenditure
Provincial Infrastructure
Grant earmarked for the
EPWP through the
Division of Revenue Act
and Audited by the
Auditor General
Infrastructure Budget
from Equitable Share
Provincial
Infrastructure
Budget
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Infrastructure Sector: Municipalities
Public Works
Reporting
Support
National
Treasury
DPLG
Rates, Levies
and Taxes
Municipality
Other Provincial
Expenditure
Municipal Infrastructure
Grant earmarked for the
EPWP through the
Division of Revenue Act
and Audited by the
Auditor General
Infrastructure Budget
from Rates, levies and
Taxes
Municipal
Infrastructure
Budget
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Key requirements of the EPWP Guidelines
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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 labour-intensively
projects, in accordance with DPW guidelines
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DPW guidelines cover identifying, designing, and producing tender
documentation for labour-intensive projects
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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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TRAINING REQUIREMENTS
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The need has been identified to build capacity to
implement large numbers of labour intensive projects
Together with the CETA a strategy for building this
capacity is being implemented.
NQF level 2, 4, 5 and 7 unit standards have been
registered with the SAQA and CETA targeting:
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Foremen
Site supervisors
Contractors/ Consultants/ Officials
Engineers/ Consultants
In addition these are being integrated with existing
learnerships and skills programmes
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Projects and activities amenable to labour intensive
construction and that must be done by hand on EPWP
Projects:
•Spreading
•Shaping
•Camber formation
•Loading
•Ditching/ Trenching
•Sloping
•Gravelling and Finishing
•Sidewalks
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Spreading
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Trenching
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Sloping
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Camber Formation
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Loading
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Culverts and headwalls
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Completed product
On time at required standard and cost
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Implications of the EPWP on the execution
of projects
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DORA conditions are aimed at creating a minimum
amount of labour-intensive construction. Government
bodies are encouraged to do more
While it is recognised that most provinces and
municipalities do some labour intensive construction
projects, the targets of the EPWP will only be met if the
use of these methods is increased significantly.
This means that it will need to go beyond the small
common LI contracts and needs to move also executing
larger projects labour-intensively
This will mean that larger contractors will also be
required to use 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
MIG is managed and disbursed through dplg, PIG through
National Treasury
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DPW will provide support to provinces and municipalities to
simplify implementation
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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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Going beyond the minimum
Appendices A & B of the Guidelines include references
to documents and suggestions on the use of LIC on
other higher standard infraustructure
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Agrément South Africa
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Construction Industry Development Board
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Development Bank of Southern Africa
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Southern African Bitumen and Tar Association
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Standards South Africa
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The School of Civil Engineering , University of
the Witwatersrand
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Rubble Masonry Bridges and Culverts
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Base courses
Emulsion treated gravel
Foamed bitumen gravel
Cast in-situ block paving
Waterbound Macadam
Hysen Cells
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Waterbound Macadam on High Volume Road
(N1)
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Bridge built using labour-intensive methods
Before
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After
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Alternative cost
effective low-cost
sealing options by LIC
Scarce wearing course
material, requires innovative
approaches to reducing the
maintenance cost of Gravel
roads
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Blacktop roads using LIC methods
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Slurry bound macadam
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Concrete Block Paving
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BESA Building System
for housing, schools
and clinics
(bitumen emulsion
stabilised adobe blocks)
CIDB Best Practice Guidelines
for Labour-Based Methods and
Technologies for Employment
Intensive Construction Works
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Gabions
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Key aspects of the EPWP employment conditions
frameworks:
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Ministerial Determination for Special Public Works
Programmes and the Code of Good Practice
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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LABOUR INTENSIVE CONTRACTOR LEARNERSHIP
PROGRAMME
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DPW and CETA designed learnership programme
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Is a support mechanism to provinces and municipalities:
participation is optional
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Participation based on province/municipality signing an MOU
with DPW and the CETA
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Modelled on Limpopo’s Gundo Lashu programme (expansion
of best practice)
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CETA has agreed to fund learnerships for 1500
individuals for the EPWP Labour Intensive contractor
learnership programme
Each Contractor Learnership will have three persons
trained in the programme: one contractor and two site
supervisors
DPW will provide a mentor over the two-year period to
the learner contractor
Municipality or province will allocate three training
projects to the learner contractors
DPW will also provide programme management support
as required
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ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
IDT
CETA
Mentors for
training
providers
Trainers of
trainers
Training
providers for
learnerships
Community
Facilitation
Support
DPW
DOL
Programme
Management
support
Province / municipality
Mentors for
learners
Training projects
ABSA
Access to
credit
Learner contractor
2 learner supervisors
Unemployed EPWP beneficiaries
Training
providers
for workers
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What the EPWP Unit in Department of Public Works has to
offer
•There are still learnerships to be taken by municipalities or
other public bodies
•DPW is together with CETA, LGW SETA and PS SETA
coordinating training on NQF 5 & 7 unit standards for all
relevant officials in departments and municipalities which
will start in January
•A learnership manager based in KZN has been appointed
•DPW could appoint a contract specialist to align KZN
department and municipalities contact documents with the
EPWP
•Information and advise on use of labour intensive
construction methods to public bodies
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Contact Details:
EPWP Unit
Department of Public Works
Internet www.epwp.gov.za
E-MAIL: [email protected]
Tel: 012 337 3115
Fax: 012 328 6820
Gautent Programme Manager:
Swazi Maja: [email protected]
Maikel R. Lieuw Kie Song
[email protected]
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