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Government programmes and projects

Programmes per subject

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

Employment

• 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.
• The New Growth Path (NGP) is aimed at enhancing growth, employment creation and equity.
• the dti provides financial support to qualifying companies in various sectors of the economy. Financial support is offered for various economic activities, including manufacturing, business competitiveness, export development and market access, as well as foreign direct investment.
• Finance for Small Businesses
  • Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SEFA)
  • Technology for Sustainable Livelihoods
  • Registering Your Business
• Working for Water eradicates invasive alien vegetation to conserve water and the environment, providing jobs and training to approximately 20 000 people per annum.
• Working on Fire is a multi-partner organisation focused on integrated fire management and veld and wild fire fighting, combined with the need to create jobs and develop skills.
• Working for Wetlands uses wetland rehabilitation as a vehicle for job creation, skills development, and the wise use of wetlands.
• Small Medium Enterprise Development - a grant programme offering financial help to tourism-related projects.
• Tourism Enterprise Development is a grant-making, training and on-going assistance programme.
• The South African Decent Work Country programme: through this programme, the International Labour Organisation and government, organised business, organised labour and the community constituency give support to initiatives aimed at promoting the decent work agenda.

Economic issues

• The New Growth Path - aimed at enhancing growth, employment creation and equity.
• the dti provides financial support to qualifying companies in various sectors of the economy. Financial support is offered for various economic activities, including manufacturing, business competitiveness, export development and market access, as well as foreign direct investment.
• Finance for Small Businesses
  • Small Enterprise Finance Agency (SEFA)
  • 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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Rural development

• Comprehensive Rural Development Programme is aimed at creating sustainable rural communities throughout the country.
• National Rural Youth Service Corps programme aims to enhance skills development by providing unemployed youth in the rural areas with opportunities to work in their communities and to be trained to provide the necessary services for local socio-economic development.

Social and community development

• Neighbourhood Development Grant programme - a conditional grant to municipalities to stimulate and accelerate investment in poor, underserved residential neighbourhoods.
• 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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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

• S'hamba Sonke (walking together) is a labour-intensive road-maintenance programme involving all provinces.
• 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.

Youth

• Youth development - the National Youth Development Agency will enhance service and development opportunities provided to the youth.
• Youth Economic Partcipation - coordinate the efforts of State Owned Companies (SOC) under the Department of Public Enterprises towards maximising their inputs towards youth economic empowerment.

Women

• Women Economic Empowerment Financial Assistance - financial incentives from the Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) that helps women in various areas of business development.

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Health

• Partnership Against HIV and AIDS - Government launched this partnership in 1998 fight the spread of HIV and AIDS.
• HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) Campaign

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.

Science and technology

• Square Kilometre Array (SKA) - South Africa is leading Africa’s bid to host the world's most powerful radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).

Arts and Culture

• Legacy projects - Government has initiated several national legacy projects to establish commemorative symbols of South Africa's history and to celebrate its heritage.
• Arts, Social Development and Youth Programme is working towards greater arts access for all communities, particularly marginalised groups.
• Flag in Every School Project
• 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.
• LandCare - a community-based and government-supported approach to the
  sustainable management and use of agricultural natural resources.
• Comprehensive Agriculture Support Programme (Casp) provides support to new and existing smallholder farmers.
• Land and Agrarian Reform Project (LARP) is aimed at accelerating and aligning land and agrarian reform.
• Ilima/Letsema Campaign motivate communities to plough, plant and produce
  their own food.

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.
• Disaster management - The National Disaster Management Centre ensures integrated institutional capacity for disaster risk management.
• Centre for Public Service Innovation nurtures innovation in the public sector.

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