National Youth Service in the Built Environment as part of the EPWP

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National Youth Service in the Built Environment
as part of the EPWP

• Report to Select Committee
• 13 June 2007

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National Youth Service Model

• For young people to operate effectively in
  identified occupations, service activities are
  complemented by structured learning which covers
  
• Life skills
• Technical skills
• Entrepreneurship / Cooperative education
• Aftercare support is provided for tracking
  sustainability purposes

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Overall Programme Objectives

• Ensure participation of initial 10 000 youth in
  the National Youth Service and EPWP through
  service activities in the Built Environment
• 5000 through National DPW
• 5000 through Provincial DPWs
• Ensure that youth develop skills, understanding
  and aspirations for working in the built
  environment
• Exit strategies
• Recruit 10 (1000) youth into DPW structures
• Ensure remaining youth enter into employment with
  private sector or other departments/ spheres of
  government, entrepreneurship or cooperatives or
  further learning

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Provincial Commitments
Province Target Budget (R Millions) Absorption
National 5000 40 5
EC 1500 12 5
FS 500 4 100
GP 500 4 5
LP 500 4 5
NC 500 4 5
WC 500 4 5
MP 500 4 10
NW 500 4 5
KZN 600 5 5
Based on R8000 per youth for allowances while
training and programme management, excludes cost
of training, allowances while on projects, PR,
launches etc
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Target Groups

1. Unemployed youth, aged between 18-35, interest in
   built environment artisan career, resides close
   to project location, meets entry requirements for
   training (Grade 10/Std 8)

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Recruitment Strategy

• Decentralised
• Local (based on project location)
• Advertised (newspapers, radio, posters) with
  clear criteria for target groups
• Use existing databases labour centres, UYF
  database
• Provinces to mobilise resources to manage the
  recruitment/ Selection process
• Plan, book briefings, inform UYF
• Administration of applications
• Shortlisting
• Coordination with DOL for Speex Assessment
• Split into trades required (plumbers,
  bricklayers)
• Create final list and send to UYF
• Call youth to inform them about induction
• Identify venues for induction

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Programme Management

• Provinces to mobilise programme management
  resources
• Overall Programme Management (including
  responsibility of management of youth
• Recruitment and Selection
• Payment of stipends to youth
• Project identification and adaptation
• Training needs analysis
• Planning, scheduling and securing of providers
  training and life skills provision (with DOL
  UYF)
• Plan and schedule youth participation on site,
  including technical training and life-skills
• Plan and trigger exit opportunities
• Detailed Responsibility Matrix developed

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Agreed upon Allowances

• As agreed on at the 2 March MINMEC
• Allowances while in training
• R 600 per month for food, transport and stipend
  (in line with NYS, Learnerships pay R500 per
  month)
• Allowances while working
• R1000 a month
• Estimated Cost implications
• Training 5000 x 5 months x R 600 R 15 million
• Work 5000 x 7 x R 1000 R35 million (To be paid
  from project budget, 1.2 of submitted project
  values)

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Training

• Orientation (2 weeks) NYS EPWP PDPW Built
  Environment
• Provinces to be involved in the orientation and
  explain the service and training activities
  arrange site visit, support contracting,
  disciplinary procedures
• Afterwards youth commit or can drop out
• Technical training (3-4 months) Artisan skills,
  foundational training (Maths English)
• Life skills (1 month spread over period)
• Entrepreneurship/ Coops/ Additional Technical
  Skills/ Exit strategy

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Understanding the Built Environment

• DPW and its agencies CIDB, CBE, IDT and Agrement
  have considerable in-house knowledge about the
  Built Environment
• Internal programme has been developed to educate
  youth about the Built Environment, associated
  professions, career options, government
  programmes etc.
• Modules could include
• Government and Infrastructure Eradicating
  backlogs, 2010 projects, Gautrain, EPWP, SOE
  investments
• Site visits to key projects in the area
• Related careers professional, contractors,
  supervisors, artisans, building materials,
  maintenance, property, facility management
• Objective Enhance understanding of the industry
  and motivate youth the pursue careers in the
  sector
• Status First training being done with youth in
  Kimberley and Bloemfontein. Course to be improved
  from there on.
• Can be scheduled as a breather

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Technical training Skills Programmes

• Provinces to determine which skills youth are to
  be trained in and how young people should be
  allocated to the various trades
• Youth to be trained on Accredited skills
  programmes
• The intention is to use the FET Colleges as much
  as possible
• Provinces to finalise their own options with
  regards to Provincial DOL (in line with EPWP
  training processes and framework) or Critical
  Skills Funding Window (Premiers Office)

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Life Skills

• NYS to provide training through its training
  providers
• Training to be scheduled during project
  implementation
• Programme managers to schedule into overall
  programme
• Provinces to engage NYS whether they can fund the
  training

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Work

• Youth will do their service in areas related to
  their training as well as in other areas as
  required by the project ie
• In trades in areas they have been trained
  bricklaying, painting etc
• As assistants to artisans in the trade (ie mixing
  adhesive for tilers)
• As manual labourers (Moving bricks, cleaning site)

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Outcomes

• Youth who
• Understand value of work, productivity
• Understand citizenship and democratic values
• Are independent and self confident
• Have good communication skills
• Have basic competency in respective trades
• Exit and have income through PDPW employment,
  other private sector employment, self employment,
  cooperatives

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Key Risks

• Delays in project implementation due to
  misalignment of work and training plans due to
• Poor understanding of NYS and therefore poor
  planning
• Delays in training (DOL, availability of
  providers, need for additional training, to many
  different providers)
• Delays in projects (Docs not ready, delays in
  tendering/ procurement, delays in works)
• Possible blame game contractors/ project
  managers blame all problems, delays on cost
  overruns on NYS- EPWP