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Government programmes and projects

Programmes per Government cluster

• Economic issues and employment
• Infrastructure development
• Human development
• Governance and administration
• Social protection and community development
• Justice, crime prevention and security

Browse these programmes per subject.

Economic issues and employment

• The New Growth Path - aimed at enhancing growth, employment creation and equity.
• 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.
• 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.
• LandCare - manage South Africa’s environment and natural resources using an ecologically sustainable approach.
• Female Farmer of the Year empowers women in agriculture by recognising their contributions and increasing their visibility.
• Small Business Development - support for small, micro and medium businesses.
• Automotive Development Programme - Government supports the automotive industry in order to further expand it.
• Customised Sector Programme for clothing and textile industry.
• Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) - Government Assistance & Support Programme - marketing, easy entry into SA for the expansion of existing BPO operations, skills development.
• National Industrial Participation Programme supports the development of South African industry through government procurement.
• Competitive Supplier Development Programme (CSDP) - increase the competitiveness, capacity and capability of the local supply base.
• Digital migration - the migration from analogue to digital broadcasts.
• Small Enterprise Development Agency (Seda) supports the growth of small business.
  • Cooperatives Incentives Scheme provides grants to cooperatives from all industries.
  • Black Business Supplier Development Programme offers grants in a cost-sharing scheme to black-owned business 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.
• 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.
• 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).

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Infrastructure development

• The Energy Efficiency Programme deals with the problems with electricity supply. The National Electricity Emergency Programme provides background information.
• National Infrastructure Maintenance Strategy - improves infrastructure and underpins services sustainability; contributes towards economic growth and long term jobs
• Bus Rapid Transit System (BRT) - an efficient bus transport system linking different parts of cities
• The Contractor Incubation Programme (CIP) supports small contracting enterprises
• Taxi Recapitalisation Programme - replaces old, unsafe taxis with new vehicles
• The housing delivery plan Breaking New Ground will replace informal settlements with sustainable human settlements on well-located land.

Human development

• 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.
• Partnership Against HIV and AIDS - Government launched this partnership in 1998 fight the spread of HIV and AIDS.
• Youth development - the National Youth Development Agency will enhance service and development opportunities provided to the youth.
• National Youth Service Programme (NYSP) creates opportunities for voluntary service and skills development.
• 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.
• 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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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.
• Thusong Service Centres - integrate government services in rural communities.

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Social protection 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.
• The housing delivery plan Breaking New Ground will replace informal settlements with sustainable human settlements on well-located land.
• Micro-Agricultural Financial Institutions of South Africa (Mafisa) - a micro and retail agricultural finance scheme for financially active poor people.
• Home-Based Community Care Programme provides health and social services to vulnerable people in their homes, and trains formal and informal caregivers to administer these services.
• 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.

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 into one where crimes are fully investigated, courts are efficient and prisons support the rehabilitation of offenders.

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Last modified: 28 March 2011 10:05:05.