Community Development Workers: Progress Report

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Community Development Workers Progress Report

• Report to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee
  on Public Service and Administration, 22 June 2005

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Contents

• Purpose
• Background
• Progress report
• Rollout
• State of the Provinces
• Learnership
• Relationships
• Communication
• Policy development
• Monitoring and Evaluation

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Contents

• Launches
• Discussion
• Key challenges
• Conclusion and recommendations

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Purpose

• To submit a detailed progress report and the
  implementation challenges facing the CDW programme

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Background

• The Community Development Workers Programme began
  in earnest in 2003
• A Unit based in the Ministry for Public Service
  and Administration coordinates the
  implementation, in conjunction with DPLG
• Unit is assisted by a national task team (NTT)
• Provincial units now established

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Progress report

• Rollout - National unit has
• Visited provinces
• Followed up on learnership implementation
• Met briefed other departments
• With some departments, youth bodies, exploring
  joint programmes
• Establishing learning network, India visited.

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Progress report

• State of Provinces
• Units established, 3 provinces still unstable
• Learnership in progress in all provinces
• Provincial leadership support established
• Institutional arrangements in progress
• Budgets secured in some provinces
• Municipalities and local stakeholders brought on
  board

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Progress report

• Learnership
• All provinces on target
• Learnership in all provinces progressing
• To date 571 learners completed
• Gauteng (199)
• E. Cape (180)
• N. Cape (192)
• Provinces finalising selection of remaining
  number of learners (1579)

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Progress report

• Further training
• Linkages to Gateway portal
• Running a pilot in Gauteng until Aug 2005
• Training on e-Govt ICT, Batho Pele,
  Entrepreneural skills, life skills planned
• CDWs utilising MPCCs, Customer Service booths,
  and joint work on mobile units
• Extended ICT linkages explored e.g. Post
  Offices

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Progress report

• Relationships
• Established relations with municipalities, ward
  clrs, local CBOs, NGOs, other govt depts.
• Established relations with ward committee members
  via meetings, workshops
• Salga resolution to facilitate smooth relations
• Contact with trade union federation initiated.
  Conference envisaged with unions.

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Progress report

• Joint programmes
• Finalising joint programme with NYS, SAYMP,
  several national Departments
• Collaboration in form of extended training
  exposure, additional sectors to incorporate in
  CDW job description
• ICT training to introduce eGovt.
• Community mobilisation with EPWP

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Progress report

• Communication
• A communication strategy in place
• Branding development in progress
• A Booklet providing success case studies produced
• A webpage development in progress
• Contact made with all Departments, provinces and
  other stakeholders

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Progress report

• Policy development
• A Handbook developed
• Deployment strategy framework developed
• A Monitoring and Evaluation framework developed
• Action research commissioned to study programme
  impact in areas CDWs are deployed
• Funding approach needed

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Progress report

• Launches
• Provinces launched are Gauteng, W. Cape and E.
  Cape
• National launch planned for mid-year
• Branding finalised logo, etc.
• 15 minute video being finalised. Will be ready
  for launch

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Discussion

• Relationships with ward councillors, ward
  committees and local structures
• Mostly cordial
• Provincial unit and executive leadership
  intervening in conflict situations
• Rule of law followed at all times
• A workshop with all Departments is planned to
  finalise synergy in implementing the programme

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Key challenges

• Political buy-in to ensure stability in
  provincial units
• Inter-Departmental coordination
• Funding
• Provincial strategic planning

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Thank you

• THANK YOU