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MEDIUM TERM BUDGET POLICY STATEMENT (MTBPS)
PRESENTATION TO THE JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE
NATIONAL DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
Z Ntsaluba
Chief Financial Officer
18 NOVEMBER 2003
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EMPLOYMENT AND
ECONOMIC
THEME 4
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KEY ACHIEVEMENTS BY NDPW
Thousands of rural infrastructure projects completed to speed up development for the poorest of the poor
Growth and stimulation of broader participation of citizens in the construction and property industry. To date 79 construction related projects worth R180 million had been awarded to women. More than 3250 emerging contractors have been registered on our database. Since 1996/97 about 50000 projects valued around R400 million have been awarded to this group
In 2002/03 about R400 million worth of jobs have been awarded to the targeted business as part of the Department’s BEE policy
This trend is expected to increase over the medium term
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REPRIORITISATION OF BASELINE
• The Department’s priorities are analyzed and grouped as follows:
• Main Commitments – Capital Works, Maintenance, Leasing, Rates and Taxes, Municipal Services
• Transfer Payments
• Minor Commitments – Agreme’nt Board, Interstate Boundary Fences, CIDP projects, Investigation of Sites, Land Division Committee
• Administrative Budget – Personnel, Administration, Inventory, Equipment, Professional Services
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REPRIORITISATION OF BASELINE• 81% of our Baseline figures represents committed funds
• 19% represents our Personnel Costs, Administrative Expenditure, Inventory, Equipment & Professional Services mainly for construction related projects
% SHARE OF BASELINE FUNDS BETWEEN COMMITTED & ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES
81%
19%
Committedactivities
Administrativeactivities
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REPRIORITISATION OF BASELINE
• Our reprioritization over the next three financial years has been analyzed as follows
% SHARE OF BASELINE AMOUNTS 2004/05 - 2006/07
80%
14%5%1%
0%
Major commitments
Transfer payments
Minor commitments
Personnel
Other admin costs (includesAdmin, Inventory, Equipmentand Professional serv)
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PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Property Management constitutes, inter alia, Rates and
Taxes, Municipal Services and Leasing. These are commitments that NDPW must honour so that
services offered by client departments are not disrupted. Failure to honour such commitments could result in: - Eviction of client departments by landlords Essential services being disrupted Law suits against the department Negative audit report resulting from unauthorised expenditure Poor service delivery by organs of state affected
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CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS In the past 3 years, serious damages have occurred
to buildings and infrastructures due to ground movement as a result of sinkholes.
An additional funding of R82 million is urgently
needed for the execution of engineering services in dolomite areas.
Such problems not being attended could result in serious consequences for the State with regard to loss of Sate assets, loss of life and legal claims instituted against the State
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INCREASED SPENDING ON CONSTRUCTION
Since 1994 the construction component of GFCF (gross Fixed Capital Formation) has steadily grown. Most of this growth has however resulted from increased private sector investment with a real decline in public sector spending.
The construction component of GFCF is currently at 5.6% of GDP with general government contributing approximately 1.7% to GDP and public co-operations contribute a further 0.8% to GDP
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INCREASED SPENDING ON CONSTRUCTION
Increased investment in infrastructure delivery will thus have to be accompanied by extensive skills and enterprise development in both public and private sector.
This skills development programme will provide direct support to the EPWP, the contractor incubation programme and other programmes that support the beneficiation of communities in South Africa.
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THE EXPANDED PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMME
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ESSENCE OF THE PROGRAMME
Focus on using government expenditure to provide employment opportunities and training to unemployed people
Main areas of expenditure with potential are in infrastructure, environmental, social and economic sectors
Programme is cross-cutting and decentralised, like BEE – all government bodies must attempt to achieve the EPWP goals where possible
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INFRASTRUCTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SECTORS
In infrastructure sector, focus is on creating jobs through labour-intensive construction:
Most potential for increasing jobs through increasing labour intensity is in civil infrastructure – roads and municipal infrastructure such as stormwater and trenches for pipelines
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DPW has carried out detailed research into government expenditure on infrastructure:
Total infrastructure spend over next five years > R150 bn
Total conditional infrastructure grants to provinces and municipalities over next five years = R45 billion
R15 billion of the conditional grants will be earmarked for labour-intensive construction under the EPWP
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Aim to create 900 000 work opportunities from labour-intensive infrastructure projects over the next five years (five-year budget:
R15 billion from conditional infrastructure grants
Additional allocations to be determined from other infrastructure departments)
Range of environmental programmes are up and running, will create 200 000 jobs with training over the next five years (five-year budget: R4 billion )
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SOCIAL SECTOR
Social sector to focus on community-based care and early childhood development:
Highly labour-intensive, low overheads, cheapest jobs
Common delivery models through NGO’s and CBO’s need to be refined
Five-year budget: R600 million, to create at least 20 000 jobs with training
Large potential for expansion when delivery models are in place
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ECONOMIC SECTOR Economic sector to include income generating projects
and micro-enterprise development programmes:
Select unemployed people to go on enterprise learnerships
Include access to micro-finance
Target of 3000 learnerships with 15 000 employees over five years
Use general government expenditure on goods and services to provide practical work experience to learners
Training to be funded by SETA’s
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TRAINING AND EXIT STRATEGIES
Department of Labour to coordinate
Department of Labour and SETA’s to fund
Exit strategies to inform training
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Examples of possible exit strategies
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
YEAR
Unemployed enter EPWP and obtain work experience and training, under special conditions of employment
Exit EPWP with work experience and training after max 2 years
Examples of exit strategies
- Further education and training
- Self employment
- Ongoing employment with same employer, at normal conditions of employment
- Better equipped work seeker
- Employment with a new employer
EPWP
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INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS
Institutional arrangements:
Overall coordination by EPWP unit in DPW
Environmental and cultural, social and economic sectors to be coordinated by DEAT, DSD and DTI respectively
DG’s Steering Committee to drive the programme
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CONCLUSIONS
Cabinet approved framework in November 2003
Sectoral plans to be in place by end February 2004
Environmental programmes already underway
Infrastructure programmes to start in April 2004
Social and economic programmes will start after more detailed planning
END