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Of Special
Interest at the DPRU |
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 Please
visit the
Employment Promotion Programme
website, specifically focused on the research tasks in this programme,
for
more information.
About this Programme:
In 2005, the DPRU was awarded a two year grant from the United Kingdom
Department of International Development (DFID) to implement its national
initiative, the Employment Promotion Programme (EPP).
The Employment Promotion Programme is aimed at providing an enabling
environment in South Africa for the expansion in aggregate employment
and in part to assist in achieving the stated government objective of
halving unemployment by 2014.
Following the successful implementation of the first phase of the
project (which ended in September 2007), the grant was extended by two
years.
Policy and research work in Phase I of EPP had a strong focus on the
design of programmatic solutions – rather than just the identification
of issues. A key focus for Phase II is the implementation of these
solutions – in other words implementing actual changes to policy.
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The Development Policy Research
Unit (DPRU) is part of the School of Economics at
the University of Cape Town. We conduct
research in the fields of labour markets, poverty and
inequality. |
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