EXPANDED PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMME

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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

• Presidents 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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DEFINITION

• 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

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OBJECTIVE

• To utilise public sector budgets to alleviate
  unemployment

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This will be achieved by

• 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

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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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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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SCOPE

• Covers all spheres of government and SOEs
• 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

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Implementation in infrastructure

• 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

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Infrastructure Sector Provinces
Department of Public Works
National Treasury
Support to province
Provinces report indicators
Equitable Share
Province
Other Provincial Expenditure
Provincial Infrastructure Grant earmarked for the
EPWP through the Division of Revenue Act and
Audited by the Auditor General
Infrastructure Budget from Equitable Share
Provincial Infrastructure Budget
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Infrastructure Sector Municipalities
National Treasury
Public Works
Reporting
DPLG
Support
Rates, Levies and Taxes
Municipality
Other Provincial Expenditure
Municipal Infrastructure Grant earmarked for the
EPWP through the Division of Revenue Act and
Audited by the Auditor General
Infrastructure Budget from Rates, levies and Taxes
Municipal Infrastructure Budget
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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

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Spreading
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Trenching
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Sloping
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Camber Formation
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Loading
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Culverts and headwalls
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Completed product
On time at required standard and cost
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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 minimum
• Appendices 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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Base courses
Emulsion treated gravel
Foamed bitumen gravel
Cast in-situ block paving
Waterbound Macadam
Hysen Cells
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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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BESA Building System for housing, schools and
clinics (bitumen emulsion stabilised adobe
blocks)
CIDB Best Practice Guidelines for Labour-Based
Methods and Technologies for Employment Intensive
Construction Works
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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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LABOUR INTENSIVE CONTRACTOR LEARNERSHIP PROGRAMME

• 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 Limpopos Gundo Lashu programme
  (expansion of best practice)

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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
IDT
CETA
DPW
DOL
Mentors for training providers
Trainers of trainers
Programme Management support
Community Facilitation Support
Training providers for learnerships
Province / municipality
Mentors for learners
Training projects
Training providers for workers
Learner contractor 2 learner supervisors
Access to credit
ABSA
Unemployed EPWP beneficiaries
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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 Unit
• Department of Public Works
• Internet www.epwp.gov.za
• E-MAIL EPWP_at_dpw.gov.za
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Gautent Programme Manager
• Swazi Maja Swazi.Maja_at_dpw.gov.za
• Maikel R. Lieuw Kie Song
• maikel_at_dpw.gov.za