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Implementing the EPWP in the Infrastructure Sector
2 March 2005
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INTRODUCTION TO THE EPWP
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BACKGROUND
President’s State of the Nation Address February 2003
Growth and Development Summit June 2003
Cabinet approved conceptual framework November 2003
National Launch in May by President
KZN Provincial Launch in August by Deputy President
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Nation-wide programme which will draw significant numbers of the unemployed into productive work, so that workers
gain skills while they work, and increase their capacity to earn an income
DEFINITION
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OBJECTIVE
To utilise public sector budgets to alleviate unemployment
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Creating productive employment opportunities
Increasing the labour intensity of government-funded infrastructure projects
Creating work opportunities in public environmental programmes (eg Working for Water)
Creating work opportunities in public social programmes (eg community health workers)
Utilising general government expenditure on goods and services to provide the work experience component of small enterprise learnership / incubation programmes
This will be achieved by:
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Enhancing the ability of workers to earn an income, either through the labour market or through entrepreneurial activity
Provide unemployed people with work experience
Provide education and skills development programmes to the workers
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(not mutually exclusive)
Reduce poverty bythe alleviation/reduction of
unemployment
Government Strategies
Utilise governmentexpenditure to
alleviate and reduceunemployment
Balanceeconomicgrowth with
growth in EAP
Govt. budget/procurement
RegulationEducation
policyMacro-economic
policies
Short/medium-term
Improveenabling
environment
Interventiontype
Improveeducation
sytem
Medium/longterm
Long-termMedium/long
termImpacttimescale
(EAP = economically active population)
Improve socialsecurity net
Govt. socialwelfare budget
Short/medium-term
Expanded PublicWorks
ProgrammeGoal
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TARGETS, SCOPE, AND INSTTUTIONAL
ARRANGEMENTS
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TARGETS
Target the unemployed and marginalised
To provide one million employment opportunities with training to unemployed people, within the first five years of the programme
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Covers all spheres of government and SOE’s
Each public body must formulate plans for utilising its budget to draw significant numbers of the unemployed into productive work, and to provide them with training
SCOPE
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• EPWP involves the large-scale re-orientation of line budgets so that government expenditure results in more work opportunities
•All public bodies are expected to contribute to the programme
•The conditionalities that are attached to the Provincial Infrastructure Grant (PIG) and Municipal Infrastructure Grant (MIG) are contained in the Guidelines
Implementation in infrastructure
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Infrastructure Sector: ProvincesNational Treasury
Province
Provincial Infrastructure Grant earmarked for the EPWP through the Division of Revenue Act and Audited by the Auditor General Provincial
Infrastructure Budget
Infrastructure Budget from Equitable Share
Equitable Share
Other Provincial Expenditure
Department of Public Works Support
to province
Provinces report indicators
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Infrastructure Sector: MunicipalitiesNational Treasury
Municipality
Municipal Infrastructure Grant earmarked for the EPWP through the Division of Revenue Act and Audited by the Auditor General Municipal
Infrastructure Budget
Infrastructure Budget from Rates, levies and Taxes
Rates, Levies and Taxes
Other Provincial Expenditure
Public Works
Support DPLG
Reporting
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Key requirements of the EPWP Guidelines
EPWP conditions will be included in the Division of Revenue Act (DORA) for the conditional provincial and municipal infrastructure grants (PIG and MIG):
Certain types of infrastructure projects must be done labour-intensively projects, in accordance with DPW guidelines
DPW guidelines cover identifying, designing, and producing tender documentation for labour-intensive projects
Guidelines require provinces and municipalities to apply eligibility requirements for appointment of contractors and engineers on labour intensive projects (they must be qualified in the use of labour intensive methods)
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TRAINING REQUIREMENTS
The need has been identified to build capacity to implement large numbers of labour intensive projects
Together with the CETA a strategy for building this capacity is being implemented.
NQF level 2, 4, 5 and 7 unit standards have been registered with the SAQA and CETA targeting: Foremen Site supervisors Contractors/ Consultants/ Officials Engineers/ Consultants
In addition these are being integrated with existing learnerships and skills programmes
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Projects and activities amenable to labour intensive construction and that must be done by hand on EPWP Projects:
•Spreading•Shaping•Camber formation•Loading•Ditching/ Trenching•Sloping•Gravelling and Finishing•Sidewalks
18Spreading
19Trenching
20Sloping
21Camber Formation
22Loading
23Culverts and headwalls
24On time at required standard and cost
Completed product
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Implications of the EPWP on the execution of projects
DORA conditions are aimed at creating a minimum amount of labour-intensive construction. Government bodies are encouraged to do more
While it is recognised that most provinces and municipalities do some labour intensive construction projects, the targets of the EPWP will only be met if the use of these methods is increased significantly.
This means that it will need to go beyond the small common LI contracts and needs to move also executing larger projects labour-intensively
This will mean that larger contractors will also be required to use labour-intensive methods
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Provinces and municipalities prioritise and decide on projects using their PIG and MIG funding, using normal allocation methods, such as Integrated Development Plans (IDPs)
National not involved in allocation of funds to projects – provinces and municipalities allocate in line with DORA conditions
MIG is managed and disbursed through dplg, PIG through National Treasury
DPW will provide support to provinces and municipalities to simplify implementation
CETA and DPW putting in place NQF unit standards, qualifications, and accredited training programmes for contractors and engineers for labour-intensive construction
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Going beyond the minimumAppendices A & B of the Guidelines include references to documents and suggestions on the use of LIC on other higher standard infraustructure
• Agrément South Africa • Construction Industry Development Board• Development Bank of Southern Africa• Southern African Bitumen and Tar Association• Standards South Africa• The School of Civil Engineering , University of
the Witwatersrand
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Rubble Masonry Bridges and Culverts
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Foamed bitumen gravel
Cast in-situ block paving
Emulsion treated gravel
Waterbound Macadam
Hysen Cells
Base courses
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Waterbound Macadam on High Volume Road (N1)
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Bridge built using labour-intensive methods
Before
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After
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Alternative cost effective low-cost
sealing options by LIC
Scarce wearing course material, requires innovative approaches to reducing the maintenance cost of Gravel roads
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Blacktop roads using LIC methods
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Slurry bound macadam
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Concrete Block Paving
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CIDB Best Practice Guidelines for Labour-Based Methods and Technologies for Employment Intensive Construction Works
BESA Building System for housing, schools and clinics
(bitumen emulsion stabilised adobe blocks)
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Gabions
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Key aspects of the EPWP employment conditions frameworks:
Ministerial Determination for Special Public Works Programmes and the Code of Good Practice
Gazetted after negotiations at NEDLAC Allow for special conditions of employment to facilitate
greater employment on Public Works Programmes:
• Employers may set rates of pay locally at self-targeting rates, to avoid attracting workers away from more permanent employment
• Reduced obligations for employers, eg no UIF insurance payments
• Task-based payment for labour-intensive works
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These special conditions of employment are on condition that:
Workers have an entitlement to training
The duration of employment of a worker under these special conditions is limited
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DPW and CETA designed learnership programme
Is a support mechanism to provinces and municipalities: participation is optional
Participation based on province/municipality signing an MOU with DPW and the CETA
Modelled on Limpopo’s Gundo Lashu programme (expansion of best practice)
LABOUR INTENSIVE CONTRACTOR LEARNERSHIP PROGRAMME
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CETA has agreed to fund learnerships for 1500 individuals for the EPWP Labour Intensive contractor learnership programme
Each Contractor Learnership will have three persons trained in the programme: one contractor and two site supervisors
DPW will provide a mentor over the two-year period to the learner contractor
Municipality or province will allocate three training projects to the learner contractors
DPW will also provide programme management support as required
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ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Province / municipality
Learner contractor2 learner supervisors
Unemployed EPWP beneficiaries
CETA DPW DOL
ABSA
Trainingproviders for learnerships
Training providers for workers
Mentors forlearners
Mentors for training providers
Training projects
Trainers of trainers
Programme Managementsupport
IDT
CommunityFacilitationSupport
Access tocredit
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What the EPWP Unit in Department of Public Works has to offer
•There are still learnerships to be taken by municipalities or other public bodies•DPW is together with CETA, LGW SETA and PS SETA coordinating training on NQF 5 & 7 unit standards for all relevant officials in departments and municipalities which will start in January•A learnership manager based in KZN has been appointed•DPW could appoint a contract specialist to align KZN department and municipalities contact documents with the EPWP•Information and advise on use of labour intensive construction methods to public bodies
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Contact Details:
EPWP UnitDepartment of Public WorksInternet www.epwp.gov.zaE-MAIL: [email protected]: 012 337 3115Fax: 012 328 6820Gautent Programme Manager: Swazi Maja: [email protected]
Maikel R. Lieuw Kie [email protected]
