EPWP PRESENTATION TO PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE

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EPWP PRESENTATION TOPORTFOLIO COMMITTEE
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Principles informing IDTs role

• Adding value to government development agenda
• Delivery of measurable sustainable development
  outcomes
• People centred development solutions

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ROLE OF IDT

• Support Provincial EPWP lead Departments in
  coordinating EPWP.
• Support NDPW in implementing Maintenance of
  Public Buildings (MPB) programme
• Programme Implementing Agent
• Community facilitation
• Develop Beneficiary Information Management System
  (idt value-add)

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ROLE OF IDT

• Support Provincial EPWP Lead Departments in
  coordinating EPWP.
• Develop framework for provincial implementation
• Support individual Sector Depts. in development
  of their business plans (where required)
• Monitoring and reporting on provincial EPWP
• EPWP PMO office established within Free State
  DPW
• Contract signed with KZN DPW to provide
  coordination support and manage learnerships

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ROLE OF IDT

• Support NDPW in implementing Maintenance of
  Public Buildings Programme.
• Facilitation
• Training
• Beneficiary exit strategies
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Current Status
• 21 Projects valued at R84m identified
• 5 Projects under implementation
• 68 beneficiaries employed to date
• 1200 beneficiaries to be employed once all 21
  projects
• are rolled-out

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ROLE OF IDT

• PIA
• Programme Implementation
• Training and Skills Development
• Beneficiary Exit Strategies
• Reporting, Monitoring and Evaluation
• Current status
• IDT appointed PIA in, Mpumalanga, North West,
  Western Cape, Gauteng and Eastern Cape

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ROLE OF IDT

• Stakeholder mobilization and facilitation within
  NDPW learnership programmes
• Liaise with all stakeholders including local and
  provincial governments
• Community facilitation
• Current Status
• Facilitation support to X Learnerships

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ROLE OF IDT

• Development and institutionalization of
  Beneficiary Information Management System
• Development and management of beneficiary
  database system in order to
• Conduct beneficiary capacity assessment
• manage beneficiaries in a standardized effective
  and efficient manner from entry, exit and
  migration to future alternatives
• BIMS system once deployed nationally, would
  provide all EPWP reporting requirements.
• Current Status
• Bims system idt national roll-out by mid April
  2006
• Bims system pilot in Gauteng and NDPW EPWP
  Maintenance projects in progress

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Current Status-Provinces
Province Role Client
Mpumalanga PIA Health, Education
North West PIA Health
Gauteng PIA Public Works
Kwazulu Natal PIA / Coordination Works/Transport
Western Cape PIA / coordination Public Works
Eastern Cape PIA Public Works, Education
Northern Cape Coordination Public Works
Free State Infrastructure sector coordination Public Works
Limpopo
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Current Status-Provinces

• Mpumalanga
• Appointed PIA for X Projects
• Beneficiary training started
• Gauteng
• Appointed PIA to implement 58 projects
• Infrastructure, environmental social projects
• North West
• IDT appointed PIA to implement X projects

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Current Status-Provinces

• Free State
• IDT setup and capacitate Programme Management
  Office to coordinate EPWP
• Capacitate department to takeover after 12 months
• Northern Cape
• Assist DPW in developing provincial business plan
• Assist sector depts. in developing sector plans
• Western Cape
• Appointed to manage EPWP help desk
• Appointed to coordinate EPWP
• PIA to implement community projects

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Current Status-Provinces

• Eastern Cape
• Appointed PIA- EPWP school building
• Kwazulu Natal
• Assist dept. of Transport in coordinating EPWP.
• Manage learnerships
• Dept to take-over by end of 12 months

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Challenges

• Projects generally limited to a financial year.
• Lead time required to arrange training
• Projects usually fast tracked
• Not all projects appropriately suited for EPWP or
  not properly planned for or designed.
• Stakeholder mobilization and social facilitation
  critical but usually not allocated enough time.

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Recommendations

• Multi year project planning.
• Review lead time required to approve training
  and budget allocation by DoL and Setas on EPWP
  projects.
• Standardize stakeholder mobilization and social
  facilitation to ensure uniformity across all EPWP
  projects.
• EPWP requirements to be factored in at project
  planning and design phase.

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