(AsgiSA) Annual Report 2008 - South African Government Information
(AsgiSA) Annual Report 2008 - South African Government Information
(AsgiSA) Annual Report 2008 - South African Government Information
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Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for <strong>South</strong> Africa<br />
ANNUAL REPORT<br />
<strong>2008</strong><br />
Budgets for implementing projects using labour-intensive EPWP methods remain the responsibility of<br />
provincial departments responsible for those particular projects – in this sense, the EPWP does not have<br />
a direct project budget.<br />
Phase One, which was implemented between 2004 and 2009, achieved its target of creating more than<br />
one million part-time employment opportunities. Table Five reflects full-time equivalent employment<br />
opportunities.<br />
Table 5: Estimated full-time equivalent employment on public works programmes,<br />
2004/05 – 2007/08<br />
2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08<br />
Economic 286 222 1 222 1 553<br />
Environment and culture 15 944 23 882 26 658 23 075<br />
Infrastructure 52 891 28 188 34 738 77 816<br />
Social services 1 965 10 838 23 083 43 916<br />
Total 71 086 63 130 85 701 146 360<br />
Source: National Treasury (<strong>2008</strong>), MTBPS<br />
From 2009 to 2012, R4.2 billion has been allocated to Phase Two of the EPWP. This will include a new<br />
EPWP grant incentive for municipalities aimed at providing them with incentives to increase the number<br />
of employment opportunities on infrastructure projects. During EPWP Phase One, municipalities did<br />
not significantly adopt labour-intensive approaches to infrastructure implementation.<br />
The extension of this programme targets 400 000 full-time equivalent longer-term jobs in the social<br />
and municipal services sectors, home-based and community care, as well as project-based employment<br />
in infrastructure and environmental protection, in adult literacy initiatives and in programmes<br />
delivered through non-governmental organisations. A new modality for delivery will be the Community<br />
Work Programme in which unemployed poor people will be employed for two days a week on communal<br />
projects developed and agreed to by poor communities.<br />
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