Gauteng Business 2016 edition
The 2016 edition of the Gauteng Business and Investment Guide is the premier business and investment guide for the Gauteng province and the Gauteng Growth and Development Agency (GGDA). In addition to detailed profiles of key provincial organisations, including the GGDA, the Automotive Industry Development Corporation Centre (AIDC), the Gauteng Investment Centre, the Gauteng IDZ, the Gauteng ICT Park SEZ and Constitution Hill, this edition includes well-researched economic and demographic data on the province, as well as insights into the province’s five development corridors and the new industries and development nodes in these corridors; a focus on Gauteng as a global city region; and key growth sectors for the province.
The 2016 edition of the Gauteng Business and Investment Guide is the premier business and investment guide for the Gauteng province and the Gauteng Growth and Development Agency (GGDA). In addition to detailed profiles of key provincial organisations, including the GGDA, the Automotive Industry Development Corporation Centre (AIDC), the Gauteng Investment Centre, the Gauteng IDZ, the Gauteng ICT Park SEZ and Constitution Hill, this edition includes well-researched economic and demographic data on the province, as well as insights into the province’s five development corridors and the new industries and development nodes in these corridors; a focus on Gauteng as a global city region; and key growth sectors for the province.
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PROFILE<br />
<strong>Gauteng</strong> ICT Park<br />
Special Economic Zone (SEZ)<br />
The ICT SEZ is an instrument available for the<br />
<strong>Gauteng</strong> Province to attract Foreign Direct<br />
Investment (FDI) and Direct Domestic Investment<br />
(DDI) to a dedicated industrial park (NASREC) using<br />
meaningful incentive packages from National<br />
Treasury, Department of Telecoms & Postal Services,<br />
SARS, Municipalities and other relevant institutions.<br />
It aims to provide world class economic infrastructure<br />
and facilities to investors through offering<br />
competitive incentive packages to attract and<br />
retain investments; developing and providing required<br />
ICT skills to investor businesses; shortening<br />
the processes of business registration, permitting<br />
and settling of investors.<br />
Establishment of green technology<br />
manufacturing hub<br />
The overall project objective is to formulate a robust<br />
foundation for the establishment of a commercially<br />
viable community-based renewable energy sector<br />
for rural development.<br />
Supporting targeted projects by:<br />
Working with development finance partners in a<br />
project appraisal capacity to assess the case for<br />
proceeding with specific projects or proposals.<br />
• Undertaking the coordination, pre-planning and<br />
evaluation of sites for clients, and conducting<br />
post-investment site visits.<br />
• Providing and disseminating market intelligence<br />
in the form of sectoral and regional<br />
economic data.<br />
• Assisting with company registrations and<br />
helping businesses to obtain work permits<br />
and visas.<br />
• Facilitating access to national and local government<br />
investment incentives.<br />
• Facilitating local and foreign business retention,<br />
expansion and after-care services.<br />
• Hosting and coordinating inbound foreign and<br />
local business delegations and undertaking<br />
outbound missions to promote <strong>Gauteng</strong> as a<br />
premier investment destination.<br />
• Providing export development and facilitation<br />
assistance.<br />
Creating an enabling environment<br />
Enterprise Program Management Office<br />
(EPMO)<br />
The GGDA has strategically aligned with its EPMO to<br />
provide holistic management over multiple projects.<br />
In this regard the EPMO serves as an overarching<br />
umbrella that enables the organisation to maintain<br />
oversight and quality assurance over multiple programmes<br />
and projects. EPMO primary output is to<br />
enhance the GGDA capability to align and oversee<br />
programmes and projects to be executed as part of<br />
the organisational strategy.<br />
Purpose<br />
Provide project management support for strategic<br />
economic infrastructure projects.<br />
Functions<br />
Provide transversal services in respect of centralized<br />
and coordinated management of capital infrastructure<br />
projects, i.e. project management support functions<br />
along the project cycle to:<br />
• <strong>Gauteng</strong> ICT & Media<br />
• Green Economy<br />
• Project oversight, incubation and development<br />
• <strong>Gauteng</strong> municipal infrastructure projects<br />
• Serve as registrar of <strong>Gauteng</strong> Economic<br />
Infrastructure projects<br />
Programme objectives<br />
• To increase investment in economic infrastructure<br />
delivery programmes through appropriate<br />
project packaging and optimal deal structuring<br />
• To develop and support Special Economic Zones<br />
in the <strong>Gauteng</strong> province<br />
• To support sustainable economic development<br />
through green economy approaches<br />
• To ensure sound project management processes<br />
incorporating risk management and quality<br />
standards<br />
• To ensure prudential appraisal of economic<br />
infrastructure projects<br />
• To ensure stakeholder engagement and<br />
management<br />
Services<br />
• Administrative support for project managers<br />
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