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In
October 2004, DFID approved a programme aimed at promoting an
enabling environment for employment creation in South Africa,
and contributing to the Governments goal to reduce unemployment
from 28 per cent in 2003 to 18 per cent in 2009. This programme
is entitled the Employment Promotion Programme (EPP).
This initial two-year project, the Employment Promotion
Programme (EPP) has been designed to assist South Africa to
address the unemployment challenge. Consideration will be given
to broadening the geographic focus of the programme to SACU and
perhaps SADC should the first two-year phase be successful and a
larger second phase considered.
The success of EPP will
be measured at the purpose level through quantitative and
qualitative assessments of the institutional framework for job
creation i.e. how conducive this framework is, or is not, for
reducing unemployment. |
The EPP Labour Market
Interventions have three main outputs:
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A reliable evidence-base to inform better
employment-related policy, legislation and
regulation;
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Structures in place to monitor and assess policies
and regulations from a public good perspective;
Labour Market institutions (rules of the game) and
organisations (those that administer the rules)
operate more effectively
Through EPP, DFID will form two partnerships. First, a
partnership with an appropriate institution, to implement the
labour market information, institutional and organisational
framework issues which are set out in the first three output
areas of the logframe.
Secondly, a partnership with the
Department of Public Works (DPW)
to support the GoSAs Expanded Public Work Programme (EPWP). DPW
received a Cabinet mandate to coordinate EPWP initiatives,
driven by the Infrastructure, Social, Environment and Economic
Clusters. DPW will enter into various partnerships with; inter
alia, the
Business Trust,
Human Sciences Research
Council (HSRC)
and the
International Labour
Organisation (ILO). DPW has requested DFIDs
limited contribution to focus largely on supporting the
Infrastructure Cluster in the implementation of EPWP initiatives
at local level. Through a partnership with DFID, DPW can draw on
inputs by major international research organisations and
trainers, which it could otherwise not procure through its own
procurement processes.
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