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NPWP & POLICY BRANCH. Strategic Planning Workshop for Public Works Portfolio Committee 12 – 15 March 2006. Contents of the Presentation. Strategic objectives of the Branch; Construction Industry Transformation; National Construction Week (NCW); Skills Development Programme; - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
NPWP & POLICY BRANCH
Strategic Planning Workshop for
Public Works Portfolio Committee
12 – 15 March 2006
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Contents of the Presentation
• Strategic objectives of the Branch;
• Construction Industry Transformation;
• National Construction Week (NCW);
• Skills Development Programme;
• Forum of SADC Public Works Ministers;
• Property Industry Transformation;
• Disposal Policy;
• Emerging Sector Programmes;
• Verification Exercise
• ASGISA
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Strategic Objectives
• a) To provide strategic leadership to the Construction and Property Industries to promote sustainable economic growth, transformation and development.
• b) To provide a custodial function for the property portfolio the Department is responsible for; and
• c) To address poverty and unemployment through the Expanded Public Works Programme.
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Construction Industry Transformation
• Transformation of the IndustryConstruction Charter:-- Text and Scorecard finalised (September 2004)- Handed over and accepted by Minister- To be signed off by all stakeholders (17/03/06)- Process underway to set up the charter council.
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National Construction Week (NCW)
• National Construction Week:-
To promote the image of the industry through:
- exposing youth to exciting opportunities in the industry;
- platform for stakeholders to celebrate opportunities & achievements.
Cooperation between public and private enterprises involved in the industry
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National Construction Week (NCW)
• NCW 2006 Campaign
- to change the image of the industry
- to create awareness of wide range of careers opportunities to aspiring professionals & artisans
- to encourage skills development & retention
- to celebrate achievements – people, institutions, processes and innovation
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National Construction Week (NCW)
• Buy-in: - National, provincial and local government, organised labour, NEDLAC, Research & Standards Bodies
- Professions, employer & volunteer associations
- Material supplier bodies
- Financial institutions
- International & Development Organisations & Donors
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National Construction Week (NCW)
• Marketing, PR, Media, Advertising:o Radio & TV adverts in five languages
o Website
o All forms of media (national & provincial) to receive Newsflash of events in their Provinces
o Call Centre Service to enable companies & schools without access to internet to log in their event information and obtain event information
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Skills Development Programme• MSD:
- 40 post-matriculants were selected for the 2006 intake
- Selected using DPW & SANDF selection criteria
• 2014 Youth Foundation:
- 3 pilot schools in 2005: WC, LM, Mpuma
- Roll-out to 3 additional: FS, EC, NC
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Skills Development Programme• Total of 72 youths now on the programme• Programme entails:
- competition to design projects for development of their schools (2005)
- new design projects to be completed by the start of NCW in July 2006;
• Industry support: finance for winning project, bursaries, mentors.
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Forum of SADC DPW
• Status quo report on the SADC industry finalised• Terms of Reference finalised• Draft programme developed (to be discussed with
Minister)• Conference on 24 -25/04/06
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Property Industry Transformation
• Property Charter:- Charter accepted by stakeholders- Submitted and accepted by Minister- Charter to be signed by all stakeholders on
17/03/06- Plans to establish Charter Council underway
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Disposal Policy
• Context:
- Biggest portfolio – platform for service delivery;
- Cost of management of unutilised assets high
- Disposal backlog
- Opportunities: o Property Charter
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Disposal Policy
• Constraints (PPPFA (90/10; 80/20) principles
• DPW policy:o to guide officials on sales, donations, letting, or exchange,
PPP, transfer between spheres of government, unsolicited bids, disposal to govt officials and public office bearers, etc;
o adjudication guidelines: overall target 70% of the property value or Level 4
contributor in terms of the Property charter.
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Disposal Policy
• Process- Policy & adjudication mechanisms developed- Discussions with DPE to consolidate DPW
and SOE disposal documents for uniformity among govt agencies - Joint Cabinet memo to be submitted asap- This policy has been discussed with Provincial
Public Works and will be promoted to other custodians
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Emerging Contractor Development Programme (ECDP)
• Dept continues to support emerging contractors. A review of the existing ECDP conducted in 2004 highlight some weaknesses in our ECDP such as
- access to finance
- effectiveness of support programmes
- capacity issues, etc
• The dept has since realigned its programme to focus it more on developmental and training issues through learnership programme supported by CETA.
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Contractor Incubator Programme (CIP)
• To further accelerate the development of emerging contractors, a CIP programme was developed to focus on contractors managing projects from R1m to R30m.
• Since inception, a total of 81 contractors were selected to be on database of pre-selected contractors for CIP.
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Contractor Incubator Programme (CIP)
• These contractors were subjected to a verification process to confirm their BEE status.
• The result of this exercise was:o 69 were confirmed to be BEE
o 9 did no respond
o 3 were non BEE.
Thus: 69 contractors are on the CIP database of which 22 (31.8%) are women. The available space (11) may be filled by women contractors.
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Contractor Incubator Programme (CIP)
• A total of 170 Projects ranging from R1m to R30m have been identities for the CIP.
• At least 30% of these will target women owned construction companies.
• Mentors will be identified to support the contractors.
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Women In Property• The Dept has supported the establishment of an association
for women in property.
• A dedicated official has been appointed and accommodation and equipment have been provided.
• The Dept is in the process of appointing an Manager for a period of three years.
• Targets for women-owned enterprises and individuals have been set in all empowerment programmes of the Dept
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Women in Construction
• The Dept continues to support women owned construction enterprises.
• As mentioned above, over 30% of enterprises on the CIP are women owned – this figure may increase to at least 40%.
• The projects identified for this year (170) are enough to support most of these enterprises
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Emerging Landlord Programme
• Opportunity: leasing annual budget of about R1,3m
• More leases running on month-to-month basis or short term
• Emerging landlord programme to be developed to promote BEE
• Discussions underway with financial institutions to develop accessible financial facilities for emerging landlords (ABSA, Nedbank)
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Verification exercise
• Progress:
- MOU between NPA & DPW being finalised for
DPW to fund & for NPA to authourise investigation
- have started preliminary investigations
- getting contracts from regions and affidavits
- PriceWaterhouse Coopers to do forensic audit
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ASGISA
• Govt infrastructure spend of R370bn• Women under represented in most sectors• Fact-finding mission to UAE in Feb initiated by
DP’s office• Reason for choosing UAE: two Emirates visited
are some of the fastest growing cities in the world, 12% of the world cranes are in Dubai, large scale projects.
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ASGISA
• Concrete officer from SA House:
- placement of 100 women
- sectors: infrastructure development, finance, hospitality
- to start work on 1 April 2006
- Period: 6 – 12 months
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ASGISA
• Package: return tickets, accommodation, allowance, medical assurance, transport
• Recruitment: Received 502 applications, shorlisted 176, selected 100 women
• Orientation workshop 17 – 19/03/06• Departure 24/03/06
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