Acquisition (Jipsa) and Accelerated Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa
(AsgiSA) annual reports
15 April 2009
The Presidency will tomorrow, 16 April 2009, launch the Joint Initiative on
Priority Skills Acquisition (Jipsa)/ Accelerated Shared Growth Initiative for
South Africa (AsgiSA) annual reports at the Union Buildings.
The launches will follow a meeting of the JIPSA Task Team Meeting.
The media are invited for a Press conference at the end of the meeting
scheduled as follows:
Date: 16 April 2009
Venue: The Union Buildings
Time: 14h00 (media to arrive at 13h30)
Recap of AsgiSA:
Constraints:
* deficiencies in government capacity
* the volatility of the currency
* low levels of investment infrastructure and infrastructure services
* shortages of suitably skilled graduates, technicians and artisans
* insufficiently competitive industrial and services sectors and weak sector
strategies
* inequality and marginalisation, resulting in many economically marginalised
people being unable to contribute to and/or share in the benefits of growth and
development (the "Second Economy").
Interventions:
* infrastructure investment
* second economy initiatives
* skills and education (Jipsa)
* industrial policies and sector strategies
* macroeconomic policy
* governance interventions
Please contact:
Terence Manase
Cell: 082 3386707
E-mail: terrence@po.gov.za
Denzil Taylor
Spokesperson to the Deputy President
Cell: 082 561 3772
E-mail: taylor@po.gov.za or denzil.taylor@gmail.com
Issued by: The Presidency
15 April 2009
