EXPANDED PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMME

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CONTRACTOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE EPWP 11 October
2005
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1. BACKGROUND
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Projected growth in construction

• At least double construction output over 10 years
• Likely to be shortage of contractors, supervisors
  and skilled workers

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CIDB Contractors Register grading value ranges
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CIDB register equity statistics to date
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The register as a tool for contractor development

• Inequity reflected by register is the legacy of
  apartheid
• CIDB register is a mirror of society
• Challenge is to use the register as a tool to
  promote greater equity in the industry

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2. CONTRACTOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE EPWP
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Labour intensive contractor learnership programme

• DPW and CETA designed learnership programme
• Is a support mechanism to provinces and
  municipalities participation is optional
• Participation based on province/municipality
  signing an MOU with DPW and the CETA

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• How it works
• Open advert for companies (a contractor and two
  supervisors) to apply go onto the programme
• Selection according to pre-determined criteria
  (preference for people with experience in
  construction and managing a business)
• Selected learners go on 2 3 year full-time CCO2
  learnership, consisting of series of classroom
  training and practical training projects
• Contractors must exit after maximum 3 years,
  compete on open market

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LI CONTRACTOR LEARNERSHIP PROGRAMME
IDT
CETA
DPW
DOL
Mentors for training providers
Trainers of trainers
Programme Management support
Community Facilitation Support
Training providers for learnerships
Province / municipality
Mentors for learners
Training projects
Training providers for workers
Learner contractor 2 learner supervisors
Access to credit
ABSA
Unemployed EPWP beneficiaries
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Programme for learnerships
Year 1
Year 2
Training
Project 1
Training
Project 2
Training
Project 3
Mentorship (DPW)
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• Contractors registered at levels 1 and 2 at start
  of learnership, will qualify to register at
  levels 3, 4 and 5 when graduate
• 33 provincial departments and municipalities
  signed up for 1848 learnerships to date
• Target of 1000 emerging contractors and 2000
  supervisors on learnerships by July 2006
• As part of their learnerships, the learners will
  implement 1500 EPWP projects to the value of
  approximately R1.5 billion

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Other EPWP contractor development programmes

• Building contractors (with CETA)
• 120 contractors on similar learnerships in
  Limpopo
• School class-room blocks provided as training
  projects
• 40 graduated recently, moved to levels 3, 4 and 5
  
• 30 building contractors being recruited onto
  similar programme in Eastern Cape
• Electrical contractors
• Energy SETA allocating 12 learnerships
• Will be implemented by DPW
• Potential for further expansion

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CONCLUSIONS

• Need to analyse equity statistics on register by
  class of works
• Need to focus more on contractor development
  programmes in classes with worst equity
  statistics, eg ME, EE, SW
• Need to formulate more second round contractor
  development programmes, to assist black
  contractors to move from levels 3,4 and 5 up to
  levels 6, 7, 8 and 9.

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