Umsobomvu Youth Fund Annual Report 2006 - Nyda

Mobile YACsThe SAY database currently has 46 494 members.Strategic partnerships establishedThe CIC Division has engaged with a number of strategic partners who have assistedit to achieve its strategic objectives. The table below provides a summary of the keypartners and their role and/or contributions to date.PartnersMindsetDepartment of LabourCollaboration• Mindset activated two streams of portal content (on employment and self-employment). Theseare being installed in YACs for use by the youth. The idea behind this was to take static contentand to create interactive multimedia products on finding work and starting a business.• CIC is currently working on launching a livelihoods channel with Mindset. This will give us theopportunity to make use of their massive platform: reach, an extensive database of content,content development expertise, access to their and partners’ sites for deployment of content.• Training on UYF products and services• Content provisionDepartment of Communications• Translation of Portal content into official languagesNational Students FinancialSchemeDepartment of EducationGovernment Communicationand Information System (GCIS)Government Multi-purposeCommunity CentresThe South African Post Office• Placement of inserts on Job Opportunities and Seekers Database (JOBS) (recruiting Aidunemployed graduates)• Procurement and use of key database information for JOBS (recruiting unemployedgraduates)• Information provision to young people• Information content sharing and development• Sharing of infrastructure and other resourcesUmsobomvu Youth Fund 2006 Annual Report19