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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
• Science and Technology
• Arts and culture
• Agriculture
• Communications
• Governance and administration

Browse these programmes per Government cluster

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.
• Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa (AsgiSA) - a national initiative resulting from Government's commitment to halve unemployment and poverty by 2014.

Economic issues

• The New Growth Path - aimed at enhancing growth, employment creation and equity.
• 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.
• 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.

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

• 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. 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.

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

• 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.
• Disaster management - The National Disaster Management Centre ensures integrated institutional capacity for disaster risk management

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