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2. UNLOCKING EMPLOYMENT
OPPORTUNITIES IN LINE WITH EPWP
PHASE 3
African Economic Expansion Summit
11 November 2014

3. • Introduction
• Evolution of EPWP
• Maximising Employment within the Existing Economy
• Expanding Employment within Maintenance Activities
• Using the Zibambele Model as a Best Practice
Guideline
Presentation Outline

4. EPWP Phase 3 – Evolution of efforts to generate meaningful
employment in the response to South Africa’s significant number
of unemployment
 Provide a framework for generating sustainable employment
 Promote job creation, wealth creation and economic activity for South African’s
 Focuses on employment generation that contributes towards development
 Provides social services – Education, Skills Development Facilitate social upliftment
and empowerment of the disenfranchised
Introduction
Economic Growth and Development through the provision of
Social Services

5. Evolution of EPWP -
6 Key Lessons from EPWP Phase 1 & 2
Clarifying the
Key Objectives
of PEPs – The
“Trilemma”
Better Balance
Between Work
Opportunity
Headcounts &
Other
Outcomes
Greater
Emphasis on
the Duration of
Work
Opportunities
Perception of
Risk for Public
Bodies Taking
on EPWP
Projects
Mitigate the
Risk of Projects
Being Captured
for Patronage
Purposes
Need for
Greater Co-
ordination and
Integration of
Efforts
Framework
for EPWP
Phase 3

6. Improved Monitoring
& Evaluation
• Create temporary employment opportunities with a sustainable livelihood
focus
• Contribute to social protection of unemployed
• Increasing Labour Intensity of infrastructure investments
• Emphasis on skills development – Promote transition into mainstream
economy
• Expand on social capital – Community Works Programme
Paradigm Shift towards EPWP Phase 3
Evolution of EPWP -
Design of EPWP Phase 3
Greater Coordination
Across EWP & Other
Developmental Initiatives
Increase Scope of
Infrastructure
Maintenance

7. Creation of
meaningful
work
opportunities
“ To provide work opportunities and income support to the poor and
unemployed through the delivery of public and community assets
and services, thereby contributing to development”
Evolution of EPWP -
Objective of EPWP Phase 3
Improved targeting &
beneficiary selection
processes – Promote
community
involvement
Greater degree of
uniformity &
standardization
across programmes
Improving strategic &
operational aspects
of EPWP
Improved monitoring
& evaluation
Promote synergies
between
implementing agents
& stakeholders

8. HOW?
• Seek employment opportunities in existing budgets
• Increase Labour Intensity of Government’s infrastructure investment
• Plan for Labour Intensive activities during the design stage of projects –
Proactive approach to employment generation vs ad-hoc reactive
implementation
• Programmes vs projects – Long term sustainability as oppose to
emergency interventions
• Emphasis on training and skills development – Appropriate training
strategies & policies
• Shift focus from Infrastructure projects to Maintenance Activities
Maximising Employment within
the Existing Economy

9. Expanding Employment within
Maintenance Activities
• Employment opportunities within existing service delivery requirements
• Promote labour intensive activities
• Increased scope of infrastructure maintenance
• Emphasis on monitoring and evaluation of assets created
 Promote community participation
 Enhance social cohesion
 Longer duration work opportunities
 Skills development
 Cost efficiency
 Contribute towards development
Integrated, Holistic Approach to Employment
Creation
Zibambele as a model
for best practice

10. • The Zibambele Programme targets destitute women-headed households to
provide essential road maintenance and other labour intensive activities.
• Households, rather than individuals, are contracted to carry out the activities
– facilitates continuity of employment for the household as opposed to the
individual
• Contractors are assigned a length of road varying between 300-500m
dependent on the terrain type, i.e. mountainous terrain 300m; relatively flat
and flat terrain = 500m.
Using the Zibambele Model as a Best
Practice Guideline

11. • The selection process is a consultative one which engages the community
where the neediest of households are identified and this is verified through a
Means Test.
• Creates an enormous sense of community ownership and partnership with
government.
• Programme provides Contractors with sense of dignity associated with being
gainfully employed.
Using the Zibambele Model as a Best
Practice Guideline (Continued)
 Improved beneficiary
targeting
 Promote community
involvement

12. • Initiating a project of this nature
requires a strategy, which includes:
– Understanding the principles of employment-
intensive construction,
– Adopting a long-term perspective in which a
Programme is developed (rather than ad hoc
projects), and
– Identifying possible projects within the
Implementing Authority that are conducive to
labour intensive methods
Using the Zibambele Model as a Best
Practice Guideline (Continued)
 Improving strategic & operational
aspects of EPWP

13. Using the Zibambele Model as a Best
Practice Guideline (Continued)
• Successfully implemented in:
 eThekwini Municipality
 KwaZulu Natal Department
of Transport
 Mangaung Metropolitan
Municipality (Pilot Project)
40000
6005
1100
0
5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
30000
35000
40000
45000
KZN DoT eThekwini Mangaung
No. Beneficiaries

14. Using the Zibambele Model as a Best
Practice Guideline (Continued)
Feasibility
Planning
Implementation
Monitoring &
Evaluation
• These programmes can be
phased as follows:
 Improving strategic & operational aspects of EPWP
 Holistic approach to the design of EPWP
programme
 Understand monitoring and evaluation
requirements
 Efficiency across project lifecycle

15. Using the Zibambele Model as a Best
Practice Guideline (Continued)
• Implementation Methodology

16. Using the Zibambele Model as a Best
Practice Guideline (Continued)
• Generic Implementation Model
• Structured monitoring and evaluation
mechanisms
• Facilitate skills development

17. Using the Zibambele Model as a Best
Practice Guideline (Continued)
Reporting and EPWP
Compliance
All reporting should comply with EPWP guidelines
and legislation. Some import features include:
 Standard contracts,
 Records of beneficiary details and payments,
 Monthly reporting,
 Hard and soft copy of documents,
 Beneficiary database, and
 Total transparency of systems available to registered
users.
Benefits of compliance include:
 Access to incentive grant funding (DORA),
 Meeting Government targets on job creation, and
 Ultimately the sustainability of the Programme and
continued alleviation of poverty.
 Greater degree of
uniformity &
standardization across
programmes
 Improved monitoring
& evaluation

18. Using the Zibambele Model as a Best
Practice Guideline (Continued)
 Live, web-based system providing
real time information.
 Simple, effective and user friendly
interface.
 Efficiently manage individual
Beneficiary details.
 Allows for the geo-spatial
representation of collected field
data.
 Website is accessible to the Client
and other authorized stakeholders
Generic Information Management System - ZIMS

19. Using the Zibambele Model as a
Best Practice Guideline (Continued)
• Compliance with Treasury,
PFMA, MFMA & EPWP
regulations.
• Fully audit compliant.
• EPWP Reporting.
 FTEs generated – Access
to Grant Funding
System is live, web-based and provides actual and real time
information.
Provides a simple, effective and user friendly interface to
efficiently manage individual Beneficiary details.
Compliant with Treasury regulations, Public Finance
Management Act and Municipal Finance Management Act for
full audit compliance.
System also allows for the geo-spatial representation of
collected field data.
Website is accessible to the Client and other authorized
stakeholders
 Greater degree of
uniformity &
standardization across
programmes
 Promote synergies
between
implementing agents
& stakeholders

20. EPWP Phase 3 will be facilitated through the
Implementation of models such as Zibambele
 Facilitate drawing unemployed into productive work opportunities
 Generate skills development
 Provide for social upliftment
 Promote employment through the provision of assets and services
 Enhance labour intensive activities without increasing the cost per work
opportunity
Conclusion
Economic Growth and Development through the provision of
Social Services
Together lets move South Africa Forward