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Provinces capture condition assessment information in the Education Facilities Management System, which is used to inform planning and quantify infrastructure backlogs such as classrooms requiring repair, replacement, upgrading or additional construction.
- Who it is for:
- provinces and the education infrastructure planning and monitoring system across the sector
- How to act on it:
- Provincial custodians conduct condition assessments and capture the information in the Education Facilities Management System to inform planning and quantify backlogs.
To address climate change challenges, the department conducts ongoing research in partnership with academic and research institutions to support climate resilience for the sector.
- Who it is for:
- small-scale timber growers and the forestry sector needing climate-change resilience support
- How to act on it:
- Benefit from the department’s ongoing research conducted with academic and research institutions.
The DBE provides a structured national support framework (Care and Support for Teaching and Learning) with tools for provinces and schools to identify vulnerable learners and support them with poverty-related needs that can include uniforms and footwear. Assistance is provided continuously at provincial, district and school level based on identified need, available resources, and local support arrangements.
- Who it is for:
- vulnerable learners whose poverty-related circumstances undermine dignity, attendance, participation and learning (including orphaned learners, learners in child-headed households and learners from severely impoverished households)
- How to act on it:
- Use the CSTL Framework processes at school, district and provincial level to identify vulnerable learners and facilitate support arrangements/partnerships for material needs such as uniforms and footwear.
The Department of Higher Education and Training says Higher Health provides integrated services, including GBV prevention and support programmes, to students across public universities and TVET colleges.
- Who it is for:
- students across public universities and TVET colleges
- How to act on it:
- Use the GBV prevention and support programmes provided through Higher Health as part of the Department’s integrated services across public universities and TVET colleges.
Projects procured under the REIPPPP are required to make provision for funds necessary for decommissioning of the plant and rehabilitation of the site at the end of the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) term.
- Who it is for:
- projects procured under the REIPPPP (project developers/contracted parties)
- How to act on it:
- Make provision for the funds necessary for decommissioning of the plant and rehabilitation of the site at the end of the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) term.
The Department is conducting a study to develop a framework (informed by international best practice) for recycling and repurposing key equipment including solar PV panels, and it will incorporate the study’s recommendations into contractual frameworks for projects procured under the IPPPP; the study will also consider beneficiation opportunities for communities and businesses to participate in recycling and repurposing across the value chain.
- Who it is for:
- communities and businesses that may participate in recycling and repurposing activities across the value chain, and projects procured under the IPPPP
- How to act on it:
- No application process is described; the opportunity is the development of a framework whose recommendations will be incorporated into contractual frameworks for relevant projects.
Companies on the verge of invoking Labour Relations Act Section 189 and 189A are provided with an opportunity to apply for funds to assist workers who may be retrenched, with the aim of preserving or retaining or saving existing jobs.
- Who it is for:
- companies on the verge of invoking Labour Relations Act Section 189 and 189A
- How to act on it:
- Companies apply for funds that should be used to assist workers who may easily find themselves being retrenched.
Companies in distress are provided with strategies on how to save themselves from collapsing when they apply for relief funds in order to save jobs; the applications are considered.
- Who it is for:
- companies in distress seeking relief funds to save jobs
- How to act on it:
- Companies apply for relief funds; their applications are considered after being provided with strategies on how to save themselves from collapsing.
The Department provides transfer funding to Productivity South Africa to promote Small Macro and Medium Enterprises and their productivity and competitiveness.
- Who it is for:
- Small Macro and Medium Enterprises (via Productivity South Africa)
- How to act on it:
- The Department provides transfer funding to Productivity South Africa (application process not specified in the excerpt).
The Department provides transfer funding to Supported Employment Enterprises to provide special employment to work seekers with disabilities.
- Who it is for:
- Supported Employment Enterprises and work seekers with disabilities
- How to act on it:
- The Department provides transfer funding to Supported Employment Enterprises (application process not specified in the excerpt).
Through the Unemployment Insurance Fund’s Labour Activation Programme, funding is provided to various organizations to provide work experience and to secure employment opportunities for the unemployed including graduates.
- Who it is for:
- organizations providing work experience and employment opportunities; unemployed people including graduates
- How to act on it:
- Organizations receive funding to provide work experience and secure employment opportunities for the unemployed including graduates (application process not specified in the excerpt).
The Department of Employment and Labour provides funding through the Unemployment Insurance Fund’s Labour Activation Programme (LAP) to support employability, jobs preservation and entrepreneurship, including training and enabling skills for unemployed people and funding to organizations for work experience and employment opportunities.
- Who it is for:
- unemployed work seekers (including graduates) and organizations providing work experience and employment opportunities
- How to act on it:
- The unemployed are provided with training and enabling skills; the Unemployment Insurance Fund through its Labour Activation Program provides funding to various organizations to provide work experience and to secure employment opportunities for the unemployed including graduates.