Government programmes on employment, economic issues, etc. This is not an exhaustive list - for more information visit the departmental websites and read the latest South Africa Yearbook.
Education
Health
Safety & security
Economic growth & employment
Skills development
Infrastructure
Rural development
Human settlements
Local government
Environment
International relations
Public sector
Social protection
Nation-building & social cohesion
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Programme of Action
Government's Programme of Action reflects its strategic plan for the 2014-2019 electoral term, the Medium Term Strategic Framework (MTSF). The MTSF is the first five-year implementation phase of the National Development Plan (NDP). It is structured around 14 priority outcomes which cover the focus areas identified in the NDP and Government’s electoral mandate: education, health, safety and security, economic growth and employment, skills development, infrastructure, rural development, human settlements, local government, environment, international relations, public sector, social protection, nation-building and social cohesion.
Operation Phakisa was designed to fast-track the implementation of solutions on critical development issues. This is a unique initiative to address issues highlighted in the NDP such as unemployment and poverty.
Outcome 1: Education
- Early Grade Reading Programme - aims to improve learner’s reading proficiency levels in the foundation phase. Interventions in the foundation phase have the most significant impact on learning outcomes in the long term
- Student Sponsorship Programme - assists academically distinguished learners to realise their potential during their high school years with scholarships and bursaries
- Early Childhood Development - a comprehensive approach to programmes and policies for children from birth to nine years of age.
- Health Promotion - aims to create a healthy school environment by promoting the general health and wellbeing of learners and educators, and by addressing key health and social barriers to learning in order to promote effective teaching and learning
- Kha ri Gude Mass Literacy Campaign - teaches adults to read and write.
- National School Nutrition Programme - aims to enhance the learning capacity of learners through the provision of a healthy meal at schools
- Funza Lushaka Bursary Programme - provides bursaries to prospective teachers.
Outcome 2: Health
- Partnership Against HIV and AIDS - Government launched this partnership in 1998 fight the spread of HIV and AIDS.
- National Health Insurance - The National Health Insurance (NHI) is a financing system that will make sure that all citizens are provided with essential healthcare.
- The Albertina Sisulu Executive Leadership Programme in Health (ASELPH) provides executive-level training and support to build the capacity of leaders and managers who drive health system transformation in South Africa.
Outcome 3: Safety and security
- Implementation of anti-crime initiatives - the crime situation in South Africa lead to the implementation of anti-crime initiatives in 2007.
Outcome 4: Economic growth and employment
- the dtic 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
- RSA Retail Savings Bonds - government developed these bonds to encourage the public to start saving.
- 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.
- Community Work Programme - aims to create one million work opportunities by the 2018/19 financial year, covering all local municipalities.
- Local Economic Development (LED) is an approach towards economic development which allows and encourages local people to work together to achieve sustainable economic growth and development thereby bringing economic benefits and improved quality of life for all residents in a local municipal area.
- Youth Build is a community based National Youth Service programme that offers volunteers a comprehensive programme that integrates academic achievement, work experience, social action, leadership development, and personal transformation in a single project.
Outcome 5: Skills
- The establishment of the Quality Council for Trades and Occupations
- The establishment of a consolidated national qualifications framework
- Moving towards a Green Economy.
Outcome 6: Infrastructure
- The Energy Efficiency Programme deals with the problems with electricity supply.
- The Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme alleviates the electrical energy shortfall.
- The New Build Programme aims to add more than 17 000 MW to the national electricity grid by 2018.
- The Municipal Infrastructure Grant aims to eradicate municipal infrastructure backlogs in poor communities to ensure the provision of basic services such as water, sanitation, roads and community lighting.
- Bus Rapid Transit System (BRT) is an efficient bus transport system linking different parts of cities.
- Square Kilometre Array (SKA) -The SKA project is an international effort to build the world’s largest radio telescope, with a square kilometre (one million square metres) of collecting area.
Outcome 7: Rural development
- 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.
- Recapitalisation and Development Programme (RADP) - develop and provide strategic support to farmers and cooperatives
- Comprehensive Agricultural Support Programme (CASP) grant - provides post-settlement support to targeted beneficiaries of land reform and redistribution, as well as to other producers who have acquired land privately and are engaged in domestic value-adding enterprises or exporting agricultural produce.
- More agricultural programmes
Outcome 8: Human settlements
- Finance Linked Individual Subsidy Program (FLISP) is specifically intended for the market segment whose income is inadequate to qualify for a home loan, but exceeds the maximum limit applicable to access Government's 'free basic house' subsidy scheme.
- The Bucket Eradication Programme aims to eradicate all bucket toilets across the country.
Outcome 9: Local government
- Back-to-Basics is a programme devised to build and strengthen the capability and accountability of municipalities.
Outcome 10: Environment
- Green Fund - focuses on innovative projects that require financing to cover funding gaps
- Working for Water - eradicates invasive alien vegetation to conserve water and the environment.
- Working on Fire - job-creation programme focusing on implementing Integrated Fire Management
- Working for the Coast - deals with some of the challenges in line with the Integrated Coastal Management Act
- Working for Wetlands uses wetland rehabilitation as a vehicle for job creation, skills development, and the wise use of wetlands.
- Oceans economy (Operation Phakisa) - to unlock the potential of our country’s vast coastline.
- Youth Jobs in Waste - focuses on landfill operation and management, planning administration relating to waste collection and planning and undertaking waste awareness campaigns
Outcome 11: International relations
South Africa has relations within southern Africa, on the continent of Africa and in the world.
- African Union
- SADC
- BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa)
- IBSA (The India-Brazil-South Africa Dialogue Forum)
- New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad)
Outcome 12: Public service
- 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.
- Access to information - The Promotion of Access to Information Act 2000 (PAIA) guarantees the public access to information that is not classified secret.
Outcome 13: Social protection
- 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.
- The National Responsible Gambling Programme integrates research and monitoring, treatment and counselling, public education and awareness, as well as industry training
Outcome 14: Nation-building and social cohesion
- The Bill of Responsibilities aims to teach children that with the rights that they enjoy under the Constitution, they also have responsibilities.
- The Public Art Development Programme aims to strengthen and grow the arts, culture and heritage sector.
- The Department of Arts and Culture is driving nation-building and social cohesion programmes.
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- The Smart Identity Document (ID) card will eventually replace the current green bar-coded ID document.
- The Tourism Grading Support Programme. offers a measured structure for diversified inclusivity, which entails reducing the cost of quality grading for small enterprises
- Green Tourism Incentive Programme provides financial support to privately owned tourism enterprises and promotes responsible practices by offering solutions for the sustainable management of resources
- Tourism Grading Support Programme introduced to encourage wider participation in the tourism grading system and to reduce the cost burden of grading on small tourism enterprises
- Women in Tourism Programme an initiative that propels and supports the development and empowerment of women in the tourism sector
- Tourism Enterprise Development Programme provides training and support for emerging and existing tourism businesses to ensure their sustainability in the sector
- Integrated National Electrification Programme is responsible for assisting municipalities with funding for implementation of electrification projects so that universal access to electricity is reached by 2025
