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Government programmes and projects

Programmes per subject

• Employment
• Economic issues
• Social and community development
• Justice, crime prevention and security
• Housing and infrastructure
• Education
• Transport
• Energy
• Youth
• Women
• Health
• Environment
• Tourism
• Arts and culture
• Agriculture
• Communications
• Governance and administration

Browse these programmes per Government cluster

Employment

• Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa (AsgiSA) - a national initiative resulting from Government's commitment to halve unemployment and poverty by 2014.
• Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) - provides poverty and income relief through temporary work for the unemployed. EPWP includes the Home-Based Community Care and Food for Waste Programmes.

Economic issues

• Small Business Development provides support for small, micro and medium businesses.
• The Contractor Incubation Programme (CIP) supports small contracting enterprises.
• Automotive Development Programme - Government support forthe automotive industry.
• Customised Sector Programme for the clothing and textile industry.
• Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) - Government Assistance & Support Programme includes marketing, easy entry into SA for the expansion of existing BPO operations, skills development.
• National Industrial Participation Programme supports the development of the South African industry through government procurement.
• Competitive Supplier Development Programme (CSDP) aims to increase the competitiveness, capacity and capability of the local supply base.
• Small Enterprise Development Agency (Seda) supports the growth of small business.
  • Cooperatives Incentives Scheme provides grants to cooperatives.
  • Black Business Supplier Development Programme offers black-owned businesses grants in a cost-sharing scheme for business skills training.
• Finance for Small Businesses
  • Khula Enterprise Finance Ltd
  • South African Micro-Finance Apex Fund
  • Technology for Sustainable Livelihoods
  • Registering Your Business
• RSA Retail Savings Bonds - government developed these bonds to encourage the public to start saving.

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Social and community development

• Neighbourhood Development Grant programme - a conditional grant to municipalities to stimulate and accelerate investment in poor, underserved residential neighbourhoods.
• Comprehensive Rural Development Programme is aimed at creating sustainable rural communities throughout the country.
• Home-Based Community Care Programme provides health and social services to vulnerable people in their homes, and trains caregivers to administer these services.

Justice, crime prevention and security

• Implementation of anti-crime initiatives - the crime situation in South Africa lead to the implementation of anti-crime initiatives in 2007.
• Review of the Criminal Justice System - interventions to transform the country's Criminal Justice System (CJS) into one where crimes are fully investigated, courts are efficient and prisons support the rehabilitation of offenders.

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Housing and infrastructure

• National Infrastructure Maintenance Strategy improves infrastructure and underpins services sustainability, while contributing towards economic growth and long term jobs.
• The housing delivery plan Breaking New Ground replaces informal settlements with sustainable human settlements on well-located land.

Education

• Early Childhood Development - a comprehensive approach to programmes and policies for children from birth to nine years of age.
• Kha ri Gude Mass Literacy Campaign - teaches adults to read and write.

Transport

• Bus Rapid Transit System (BRT) is an efficient bus transport system linking different parts of cities.
• The Taxi Recapitalisation Programme aims to replace old, unsafe taxis with new vehicles.

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Energy

• The Energy Efficiency Programme deals with the problems with electricity supply. The National Electricity Emergency Programme provides background information.

Youth

• Youth development - the National Youth Development Agency will enhance service and development opportunities provided to the youth.
• National Youth Service Programme (NYSP) addresses high levels of youth unemployment by creating opportunities for voluntary service and skills development.

Women

• Technology for Women in Business (TWIB) aims to make science and technology more accessible to women in business
• South African Women Entrepreneurs Network (SAWEN) helps women overcome the obstacles that they still experience in business.

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Health

• Partnership Against HIV and AIDS - Government launched this partnership in 1998 fight the spread of HIV and AIDS.

Environment

• Working for Water - eradicates invasive alien vegetation to conserve water and the environment.
• Working on Fire is a multi-partner organisation focused on integrated fire management and veld and wild firefighting.
• Working for Wetlands works towards protecting wetlands
• LandCare - communities and individuals are urged to manage South Africa’s environment and natural resources using an ecologically sustainable approach.

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Tourism

• Small Medium Enterprise Development - a grant programme offering financial help to tourism-related projects.
• Transfrontier Conservation Areas - a cross-border programme that establishes wildlife conservation areas across national boundaries.
• Tourism Enterprise Development - a grant-making, training and on-going assistance programme.

Arts and Culture

• Investing in Culture Programme provides access to skills and markets.
• National Youth, Arts, Culture and Heritage Campaign (NYACHE) trains young people through learnerships in the arts, culture and heritage sector.
• Mosadi wa Konokono Campaign celebrates the achievements of women who use arts, culture and heritage to uplift themselves and their communities.
• Arts and Culture Education and Training Campaign aims to draw arts, culture and heritage practitioners and teachers together.

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Agriculture

• Female Farmer of the Year empowers women in agriculture by recognising their contributions and increasing their visibility.
• Micro-Agricultural Financial Institutions of South Africa (Mafisa) - a micro and retail agricultural finance scheme for financially active poor people.
• Land Redistribution for Agricultural Development provides grants to previously disadvantaged individuals to get land for agriculture.
• Integrated Food Security and Nutrition Programme provides relief to households affected by food security, in the form of agricultural help

Communications

• Digital migration involves the migration from analogue to digital broadcasts.

Governance and administration

• Single Public Service will ensure that government services are easily and simply accessed.
• Batho Pele - the Batho Pele principles were developed to guide government employees in their work with the public.

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Last modified: 07 December 2009 10:53:07.