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CWP Employment Creation Fund

 

The Community Work Programme (CWP) Employment Creation Fund aimed to foster economic development and create employment opportunities. It was funded by the South African Department of Trade and Industry and handled by TIPS during 2011 on behalf of the Department of Cooperative Governance (DCoG), which houses the CWP.  

The fund had three components:

  • Watershed Services River Cleaning Pilot Programme
  • CWP Innovation Fund
  • Innovations in Public Employment: Community Work Programme Leadership Course 

Watershed Services River Cleaning Programme

The Watershed Services River Cleaning Programme was piloted in 2011.

The following profile provides an overview of the pilot:

Watershed Services River Cleaning Project – Restoring our rivers

CWP Innovation Fund

The CWP Innovation Fund was created to finance innovative projects able to strengthen and improve the delivery of the CWP. This programme will improve the sustainability of the CWP as well as strengthen capacity at local level. TIPS managed the Call for Proposals and participated with DCoG in the selection of projects. A total of 69 applications were received.

Four grants were made in February 2011 for the following projects:
 
Human Sciences Research Council: Early childhood education
Siphumelele Youth Organisation: Environment waste management
Teba Development: Seedling nurseries
Zululand Centre for Sustainable Development: Water conservation

The following profiles provide an overview of the four selected projects:

Early childhood development – Giving children a head start in life
Waste management ¬– Turning waste into work
Seedling nurseries – Sustaining food security
Water conservation – Bringing resources closer to home 

Innovations in public employment: CWP Leadership course

This course was held in Hazyview, Mpumalanga, South Africa in July 2011. The aim was to contribute to the CWP capacity-building process by combining two learning methodologies: firstl the international course called ‘Towards the right to work: Innovations in Public Employment’, developed by the Employment Intensive Investment Programme (EIIP), run by the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organisation, based in Turin, Italy; and second, the ‘Course Organisation Workshop’ - a methodology based on an action-learning approach that has been used within the CWP context.

The course was run for key roleplayers in the CWP, with support from DCoG. The course was organised by the Employment Intensive Investment Programme and the International Training Centre (ITC-ILO) of the International Labour Organization, in collaboration with (TIPS). Participants spent seven days analysing and working through various aspects of organisational design, institutional set up, decent work, labour-intensity, capacity-building, and efficient ways of designing and implementing works.