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
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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
- Eco-Schools programme - an international programme of the Foundation for Environmental Education that was developed to support environmental learning in the classroom
- Early Childhood Development - a comprehensive approach to programmes and policies for children from birth to nine years of age.
- Integrated School Health Programme - school health services to leaners in primary and secondary schools.
- 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
- School Safety Programme - links schools to local police stations and raise awareness amongst children and young learners regarding crime and violence, as well as its impact on individuals, families and education.
- Funza Lushaka Bursary Programme - provides bursaries to prospective teachers.
- Care and Support for Teaching and Learning (CSTL) Programme - aims for schools becoming inclusive centres of learning, care and support.
Outcome 2: Health
- Partnership Against HIV and AIDS - Government launched this partnership in 1998 fight the spread of HIV and AIDS.
- HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) Campaign
- 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.
- Domestic violence - The rigorous steps the justice, crime prevention and security (JCPS) cluster is taking to root out genderbased violence is the adoption of zero-tolerance towards rape, violation of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people and other forms of violence towards women and children.
Outcome 4: Economic growth and employment
- The New Growth Path - aimed at enhancing growth, employment creation and equity.
- the dti 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.
- Mine rehabilitation programme - managing and rehabilitating derelict and ownerless mines
Outcome 5: Skills
- The Department of Higher Education and Training reports that significant changes have happened in the skills development landscape between 2011 and 2013, including:
- The establishment of the Quality Council for Trades and Occupations
- The rationalisation of the Sector Educating and Training Authority (SETA) framework and the strengthening of the SETA administration controls
- The establishment of a consolidated national qualifications framework
- The shift of the National Skills Development Strategy (NSDS) from being a targets-driven strategy to an outcomes-driven strategy
- 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 Integrated National Electrification Programme increases access to electricity.
- The New Build Programme aims to add more than 17 000 MW to the national electricity grid by 2018.
- The Working for Energy programme aims to provide sustainable clean energy solutions to rural and low income urban communities.
- 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.
- 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.
- Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project was launched on 8 October 2007 to ease increasing congestion on Gauteng roads.
- 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.
- Alternative energy solution - alternative energy opportunities and off-grid renewable energy solutions.
Outcome 7: Rural development
- Comprehensive Rural Development Programme - creating sustainable rural communities throughout the country.
- 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.
- The Animal and Veld Management Programme focuses on rehabilitation of degraded lands to improve crop production; de-bushing as well as infrastructure to support the livestock industry.
- The LandCare Programme is a government-supported community-based initiative to address land and water degradation.
- The Land Reform Programme underpins approach to sustainable land reform.
- The Agri-Parks Programme supports rural enterprises, develops rural industries and facilitates the efficient movement of rural produce to markets.
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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.
- Human settlements programmes and projects
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
- Good Green Deeds - aims to promote environmental actions that take into consideration sustainable living practices
- 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
- LandCare - communities and individuals are urged to manage South Africa’s environment and natural resources using an ecologically sustainable approach.
- National water security - the prolonged lower-than-normal rainfall since the beginning of 2015 has necessitated plans to mitigates the effects of the drought.
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
- Anti-Substance Abuse Programme of Action - combating substance abuse in South Africa
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.
- The Heritage Promotion and Preservation Programme is responsible for the identification, collection, safeguarding, promotions and transformation of the South African heritage, archives, heraldry and libraries.
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- Increasing access to courts: increasing access to justice services in previously marginalised communities.
- The Smart Identity Document (ID) card will eventually replace the current green bar-coded ID document.
- Road safety - Arrive Alive: a road safety plan that peaks over the festive periods in December and Easter.
- The National Youth Development Agency will enhance service and development opportunities provided to the youth.
- Digital migration: migration from analogue to digital broadcasts.
- The green and blue drop certification programmes.are incentive‐based regulatory tools that measure the capacity and environmental, financial, technical and quality compliance of water service institutions
- Water Resources Management programme. the process of planning, developing, and managing water resources, in terms of both water quantity and quality, across all water uses
- The Water Allocation Reform Programme. to ensure equitable access to water, eradicate poverty and promote social and economic developmen
- National Chemical Monitoring Programme. assesses and reports on the chemical status of water resources in South Africa
- The Road Transport programme facilitates activities related to maintaining the country’s national and provincial road networks.
- Taxi Recapitalisation Programme. the scrapping process and facilitation of an upgrade in the fleet of new TRP-compliant vehicles through a scrapping allowance paid directly to taxi operators
- Aviation infrastructure programme provide support to the ACSA’s Recover and Sustain Strategy that includes playing an active role to support provincial airports and invest in specialised airports such as drone airports
- Strategic corridor recovery programme. modernising its core infrastructure, which includes the replacement of old rolling stock and investment in signalling infrastructure
- The Tourism Grading Support Programme. offers a measured structure for diversified inclusivity, which entails reducing the cost of quality grading for small enterprises
- Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) enhancing and developing tourism infrastructure through labour‐intensive methods targeted at young people, women, unemployed people, people with disabilities and small, medium and micro enterprises
- Food Quality Assurers Programme provides for technical skills in food preservation within the hospitality and tourism sector
- 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
- Strategic infrastructure programme promotes policy coherence and budget support in government’s strategic
- Policy and Research Service the programme is to provide policy and research support to the President and Deputy President in exercising their constitutional mandate within the context of government priorities
- Social Transformation and Economic Empowerment the programme is to manage policies that mainstream women’s social transformation and economic empowerment
- Rights of Persons with Disabilities the programme is to oversee the implementation of initiatives pertaining to the rights of persons with disabilities.
- National Youth Development the programme is to oversee the implementation of national youth development initiatives.
- NSP on GBVF the programme to fight GBVF, and broaden access to economic opportunities for women.
- Mzansi golden economy programme seek to unlock this potential by facilitating the creation of job opportunities in the arts, culture and heritage sector by supporting interventions designed to develop audiences, stimulate demand, increase market access and develop skills.
- Recreation Development and Sport Promotion programme Support the provision of mass participation opportunities, the development of elite athletes, and the regulation and maintenance of facilities.
- Provincial arts programmes ensure that they remain the nerve centres for community participation and development in the area of arts and culture, and encourage young people to engage in positive activities
- Public Art Development Programme It is implemented to strengthen and grow the arts, culture and heritage sector, with particular emphasis on giving the youth, women, children and persons with disabilities the opportunity to participate and benefit from the PADP
- International cultural diplomacy programme create opportunities for artists and showcase South African talent
- Social Assistance Programme is an important element in government’s strategy to tackle poverty and inequality
- Social Policy and Integrated Service Delivery is to support community development and promote evidence‐based policy making in the DSD and the social development sector
- Welfare Services Policy Development and Implementation Support to create an enabling environment for the delivery of equitable developmental welfare services through the formulation of policies, norms, standards and best practices; and the provision of support to implementing agencies.
- HIV and AIDS Youth Programme deploys child and youth care workers in communities to assist children in vulnerable homes.
- Food for All Programme provides short-term relief for poor households, government recognises that longer-term solutions are needed.
- Victim Empowerment Programme is based upon the concept of restorative justice
- Home Community-Based Care Programme is the centrepiece of government’s interventions to build a protective and caring environment for vulnerable children
- Basic Police Development Learning Programme Police recruits undergo a Basic Police Development Learning Programme (BPDLP) when they enlist in the South African Police Service.
- Visible policing to enable police stations to institute and preserve safety and security and provide for specialised interventions and the policing of South Africa’s borders.
- Crime Intelligence Programme manages and analyses crime information, and provides technical support for investigations
- Protection and Security Services provide protection and security services to all identified dignitaries and government interests.
- Force Employment provide and employ defence capabilities, including an operational capability, to successfully conduct operations, as well as joint, interdepartmental, interagency and multinational military exercises
- Landward Defence Programme provide prepared and supported landward defence capabilities for the defence and protection of South Africa.
- The Air Defence Programme provide prepared and supported air defence capabilities for the defence and protection of South Africa
- Military Health Support Programme provide prepared and supported health capabilities and services for the defence and protection of South Africa.
- Maritime Defence Programme provide prepared and supported maritime defence capabilities for the defence and protection of South Africa.
- Health and Safety Inspectorate programme promotes mine health and safety, and aims to contribute to skills development and transformation.
- 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
- Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Pro- gramme is designed to contribute to the development of a local green industry and the creation of green jobs.
- Minerals and Petroleum Regulation programme regulates the mining, minerals and petroleum sectors to promote economic growth, employment, transformation and sustainable development
- Mineral and Energy Resources Programmes and Projects manages, coordinates and monitors projects focused on access to mineral and energy resources
- Mining, Minerals and Energy Policy Development programme formulates, maintains and implements integrated minerals and energy policies to promote and encourage investment in the mining and energy industry
- Mine Health and Safety Inspectorate programme promotes mine health and safety, and aims to contribute to skills development and transformation
- Nuclear Energy Regulation and Management programme manages the South African nuclear energy industry and controls nuclear materials in terms of international obligations, nuclear legislation and policies to ensure the peaceful use of nuclear energy