EPWP PRESENTATION TO PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE

1. EPWP PRESENTATIONTOPORTFOLIO COMMITTEE

2. Principles informing IDT’s role • Adding value to government development agenda • Delivery of measurable sustainable development outcomes • People centred development solutions

3. 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)

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Current Status-Provinces

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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.

14. 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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