NPWP

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NPWP POLICY BRANCH

• Strategic Planning Workshop for
• Public Works Portfolio Committee
• 12 15 March 2006

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Contents of the Presentation

• Strategic objectives of the Branch
• Construction Industry Transformation
• National Construction Week (NCW)
• Skills Development Programme
• Forum of SADC Public Works Ministers
• Property Industry Transformation
• Disposal Policy
• Emerging Sector Programmes
• Verification Exercise
• ASGISA

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Strategic Objectives

• a) To provide strategic leadership to the
  Construction and Property Industries to promote
  sustainable economic growth, transformation and
  development.
• b) To provide a custodial function for the
  property portfolio the Department is responsible
  for and
• c) To address poverty and unemployment through
  the Expanded Public Works Programme.

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Construction Industry Transformation

• Transformation of the Industry
• Construction Charter-
• - Text and Scorecard finalised (September 2004)
• - Handed over and accepted by Minister
• - To be signed off by all stakeholders
  (17/03/06)
• - Process underway to set up the charter
  council.

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National Construction Week (NCW)

• National Construction Week-
• To promote the image of the industry through
• - exposing youth to exciting opportunities in
  the industry
• - platform for stakeholders to celebrate
  opportunities achievements.
• Cooperation between public and private
  enterprises involved in the industry

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National Construction Week (NCW)

• NCW 2006 Campaign
• - to change the image of the industry
• - to create awareness of wide range of careers
  opportunities to aspiring professionals
  artisans
• - to encourage skills development retention
• - to celebrate achievements people,
  institutions, processes and innovation

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National Construction Week (NCW)

• Buy-in
• - National, provincial and local government,
  organised labour, NEDLAC, Research Standards
  Bodies
• - Professions, employer volunteer
  associations
• - Material supplier bodies
• - Financial institutions
• - International Development Organisations
  Donors

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National Construction Week (NCW)

• Marketing, PR, Media, Advertising
• Radio TV adverts in five languages
• Website
• All forms of media (national provincial) to
  receive Newsflash of events in their Provinces
• Call Centre Service to enable companies
  schools without access to internet to log in
  their event information and obtain event
  information

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Skills Development Programme

• MSD
• - 40 post-matriculants were selected for the
  2006 intake
• - Selected using DPW SANDF selection criteria
• 2014 Youth Foundation
• - 3 pilot schools in 2005 WC, LM, Mpuma
• - Roll-out to 3 additional FS, EC, NC

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Skills Development Programme

• Total of 72 youths now on the programme
• Programme entails
• - competition to design projects for
  development of their schools (2005)
• - new design projects to be completed by the
  start of NCW in July 2006
• Industry support finance for winning project,
  bursaries, mentors.

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Forum of SADC DPW

• Status quo report on the SADC industry finalised
• Terms of Reference finalised
• Draft programme developed (to be discussed with
  Minister)
• Conference on 24 -25/04/06

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Property Industry Transformation

• Property Charter
• - Charter accepted by stakeholders
• - Submitted and accepted by Minister
• - Charter to be signed by all stakeholders on
  
• 17/03/06
• - Plans to establish Charter Council underway

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Disposal Policy

• Context
• - Biggest portfolio platform for service
  delivery
• - Cost of management of unutilised assets high
• - Disposal backlog
• - Opportunities
• Property Charter

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Disposal Policy

• Constraints (PPPFA (90/10 80/20) principles
• DPW policy
• to guide officials on sales, donations, letting,
  or exchange, PPP, transfer between spheres of
  government, unsolicited bids, disposal to govt
  officials and public office bearers, etc
• adjudication guidelines
• overall target 70 of the property value or Level
  4
• contributor in terms of the Property charter.

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Disposal Policy

• Process
• - Policy adjudication mechanisms developed
• - Discussions with DPE to consolidate DPW and
  SOE disposal documents for uniformity among govt
  agencies
• - Joint Cabinet memo to be submitted asap
• - This policy has been discussed with Provincial
  Public Works and will be promoted to other
  custodians

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Emerging Contractor Development Programme (ECDP)

• Dept continues to support emerging contractors. A
  review of the existing ECDP conducted in 2004
  highlight some weaknesses in our ECDP such as
• - access to finance
• - effectiveness of support programmes
• - capacity issues, etc
• The dept has since realigned its programme to
  focus it more on developmental and training
  issues through learnership programme supported by
  CETA.

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Contractor Incubator Programme (CIP)

• To further accelerate the development of emerging
  contractors, a CIP programme was developed to
  focus on contractors managing projects from R1m
  to R30m.
• Since inception, a total of 81 contractors were
  selected to be on database of pre-selected
  contractors for CIP.

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Contractor Incubator Programme (CIP)

• These contractors were subjected to a
  verification process to confirm their BEE status.
• The result of this exercise was
• 69 were confirmed to be BEE
• 9 did no respond
• 3 were non BEE.
• Thus 69 contractors are on the CIP database of
  which 22 (31.8) are women. The available space
  (11) may be filled by women contractors.

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Contractor Incubator Programme (CIP)

• A total of 170 Projects ranging from R1m to R30m
  have been identities for the CIP.
• At least 30 of these will target women owned
  construction companies.
• Mentors will be identified to support the
  contractors.

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Women In Property

• The Dept has supported the establishment of an
  association for women in property.
• A dedicated official has been appointed and
  accommodation and equipment have been provided.
• The Dept is in the process of appointing an
  Manager for a period of three years.
• Targets for women-owned enterprises and
  individuals have been set in all empowerment
  programmes of the Dept

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Women in Construction

• The Dept continues to support women owned
  construction enterprises.
• As mentioned above, over 30 of enterprises on
  the CIP are women owned this figure may
  increase to at least 40.
• The projects identified for this year (170) are
  enough to support most of these enterprises

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Emerging Landlord Programme

• Opportunity leasing annual budget of about R1,3m
• More leases running on month-to-month basis or
  short term
• Emerging landlord programme to be developed to
  promote BEE
• Discussions underway with financial institutions
  to develop accessible financial facilities for
  emerging landlords (ABSA, Nedbank)

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Verification exercise

• Progress
• - MOU between NPA DPW being finalised for
• DPW to fund for NPA to authourise
  investigation
• - have started preliminary investigations
• - getting contracts from regions and affidavits
• - PriceWaterhouse Coopers to do forensic audit

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ASGISA

• Govt infrastructure spend of R370bn
• Women under represented in most sectors
• Fact-finding mission to UAE in Feb initiated by
  DPs office
• Reason for choosing UAE two Emirates visited are
  some of the fastest growing cities in the world,
  12 of the world cranes are in Dubai, large scale
  projects.

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ASGISA

• Concrete officer from SA House
• - placement of 100 women
• - sectors infrastructure development, finance,
  hospitality
• - to start work on 1 April 2006
• - Period 6 12 months

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ASGISA

• Package return tickets, accommodation,
  allowance, medical assurance, transport
• Recruitment Received 502 applications,
  shorlisted 176, selected 100 women
• Orientation workshop 17 19/03/06
• Departure 24/03/06

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