EPWP Progress Reports to Portfolio Committee

1. EPWP Progress Reports to Portfolio Committee Presented by: Stanley Henderson DDG: EPWP 01 March 2011 1

2. Table of Contents • The pothole programme for DPW • EPWP Progress Report • Deployment of data capturers • Technical support • National Youth Service and National Rural Youth Services Corps • Average duration of work opportunities • Provincial incentive grants • EPWP Reporting System • National EPWP II projects • Building of new schools and replacement of unsafe structures 2

3. The Pothole programme:Stipend determination matrixfor the pothole rehab programme The commitment of appointment of 400 beneficiaries per metro yields the following scenario. The case study that informs the allocation of beneficiaries is 1 kilometer ( km) of road translates to 2 work opportunities (1km = 2 Job opportunities) A proposal to peg the stipend at R90.00 for the 6months at three days per week: R90 x 12 working days x 6months =R6,480.00 income per beneficiary Monthly income of R1,080.00

4. Stipend determination matrixfor the pothole rehab programme Costing of the 2400 work opportunities for 6 metros =R6,480.00 income per beneficiary x 400 beneficiaries =R2,592,000.00 x 6 metros =R15,552,000.00 remuneration From these total costing it may be deduced that budget may allow the programme to extend beyond the 400 job opportunities proposed. The identification of further roads may be considered to extend the job opportunity period beyond the six months The identification of the roads and immediate engagements with all municipalities must be finalized for informed commitments

5. EPWP Progress: Work Opportunities created

6. Q2 and Q3: Work opportunities: OverallEPWP Progress against 2010-2011 targets and% increase

7. Work opportunities per sector against annual target for 2010-11 (Overall) (1 Apr 2010 – 31 Dec 2010)

8. National EPWP 2 Projects The National departments contribute to 186 309 work opportunities out of the 493230 work opportunities achieved in Quarter 3 Infrastructure sector • There are 246 projects that contributed 5 272 work opportunities • The contributing departments Correctional Services, Justice and constitutional Development, Department of Agriculture, Public Works and Department of Police. Environment and Culture • The departments in the sector has contributed 45 983 work opportunities from 654 projects • The contributing departments are Environmental Affairs, Tourism, Public Works and Water affairs and forestry Non State Sector • The Community works programme and Non profit Organisation which constitute the Non State sector has contributed 91 430 work opportunities . 21

9. Deployment of Data Capturers 8

10. Deployment of data capturers contd IDT 60 data capturers Infrastructure = 26 Data Bureau: 10 ( Supporting all provinces) City of Tshwane =5 City of JHB= 4 DPW = 5 (supporting 5 provinces) Mpumalanga = 2 Environment = 14 Data Centre: 7 DPW = 1 DWAF = 2 Tourism = 4 Social : 13 Data centre: 10 City of Tshwane :1 City of Johannesburg: 1 Westrand: 1 Non state (4) all in the data centre  5. Vacant (3) 9

11. Technical Support to Municipalities • 174 Municipalities are currently being provided with Technical support in terms of implementation of EPWP. • The EPWP plans to support additional municipal in the 11/12 financial year. Additional 6 Deputy Directors based in Provinces have been employed in this regard. 10

12. Technical Support to Municipalities. Cont 11

13. National Youth Service Programme • The programme’s focus is on training of youth in artisan trades in the built environment. • The DPW NYS programme consists of one year of training which consists of 6 months of theoretical training and 6 months of practical training. • For the 10/11 financial year, 3,235 youth have been recruited on the programme so far. • 100 youth who exited the NYS programme in the Northern Cape have been placed on an artisan training programme with the Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa( NECSA). • The Department plans to place some of the youth who have exited the programme on the Pothole Repair Programme and cooperatives cleaning the land ports of entry. 12

14. Average duration of a work opportunity • Table 1 shows that an increased average duration of 100 days in 6 provinces in the social sector was achievedthis year (2010/11) as opposed to 2009/10 where the average was below 50 • Average duration of more than 70 days was reported in the infrastructureand Non State (Non Profit Organisation) and the Environment and culture Sector. • The community works programme recorded an average duration ofless than 50 days and that lowers the overall average duration of projects • See tables below 13

15. Table 1 14

16. Progress of the Infrastructure sector incentive in the 10/11 financialyear • Provincial Departments in 7 out of the 9 Provinces have been able to access the EPWP infrastructure sector incentive. • R185.9 million will be paid out of the R330 million available for the 10/11 financial year considering 3rd quarter reporting. This represents 56% of the Provincial allocation. • Only the Northern Cape and North West Provinces have not accessed their incentive allocation for the 10/11 financial year. • For Municipalities, R 273.306 million of the R 622.996 million will be paid considering 1st quarter reporting. • This represents 44% of the Municipal allocation for the 10/11 financial year. • Considering the overall infrastructure incentive allocation, R 459 Million of the R 954 Million or 48% has been accessed. 15

17. Performance on the EPWP infrastructure incentive by Provinces after the 3rd quarter of the 10/11 financial year reporting ( Paid in 4th quarter ) 16

18. 1.2 Performance on the EPWP infrastructure incentive by Municipalities after 3rd quarter 10-11 reporting 18

19. Measures put in place to improve performance on EPWP incentive draw down • Public bodies ( Provincial Departments and Municipalities) are being provided with support to report on EPWP. The 90 data capturers employed are helping in this regard. • A partnership with DBSA through the Siyenza Manje programme has been put in place to support municipalities jointly. • Training of officials in Municipalities in Labour-intensive methods of construction with LG-SETA is currently being rolled out. • Training on reporting is also being done to Public body officials to enable them to report better on EPWP. • Technical support being provided to Public bodies to implement their projects more labour-intensively so as to create more work opportunities and Full Time Equivalents that will increase the incentive drawn down. 19

20. Report on the EPWP reporting system • EPWP Monitoring and Evaluation has two systems: the MIS and the Web-Based System. The use of two systems has created confusion to EPWP part • The two systems will be intergrated to produce a single EPWP system that can be interfaced with other systems. • Process development was completed on 5 January 2011.The process include the consultation of internal and external stakeholders to determine the system requirement and reporting requirements 20

21. Report on the EPWP reporting system contd System requirements and reporting requirements were determined during the Joint Application and Development sessions (JADs). The timeframes for development are: Integrating the MIS and Web-based system(March to June 2011) Interfacing the system with the GIS and SAS (July to September 2011) Piloting the system and training users (June to December 2011 and ongoing)