A project supporting a range of programmes, which include expanding public employment, protecting existing jobs and creating new jobs through market-based mechanisms. Building on the policy of inclusive and sustainable economic growth, the Presidential Employment Stimulus (PES) is designed to fast-track new job-creation initiatives that complement existing public employment programmes.

Key Results Areas (KRAs):
KRA 1: Active Labour Market Policy Interventions for the Poor
KRA 2: SMMEs and the Informal Sector
KRA 3: Further Education and Skills Development

A government-led plan to transition young people into the labour market and significantly reduce the high rate of youth unemployment. The PYEI is intended to coordinate, enhance, and scale up existing programmes, bringing together a wide range of partners within government and the private sector. It is the largest and most comprehensive plan to address youth employment in South Africa’s democratic history.

Key Results Area (KRA):
KRA 3: Further Education and Skills Development

A project that aims to reduce the regulatory burden imposed on informal microenterprises by ensuring that municipal by-laws are cohesive and help informal enterprises to remain economically viable while contributing to employment creation.

Key Results Area (KRA):
KRA 2: SMMEs and the Informal Sector

This project aimed to help the City of Tshwane manage the integration of informal waste pickers into the waste-management value chain. It did this through the development of an enabling policy environment, regulatory framework and implementation guidelines.

Key Results Area (KRA):
KRA 2: SMMEs and the Informal Sector

This project aims to institutionalise SCORE methodology within the clothing and textile sector. In the initial stages, by working with selected businesses, it helped demonstrate a boost in productivity and agility. From there, the potential for adopting the SCORE methodology in other manufacturing sectors is being explored.

Key Results Area (KRA):
KRA 2: SMMEs and the Informal Sector

The 2020 colloquium aimed to inform the wider public and stimulate policy debate through the deliberations of the CBPEP Programme Advisory Committee (PAC).

This study tour saw a delegation from GTAC, with support from CBPEP, attending a gathering for public sector innovators called the Creative Bureaucracy Festival, held in Berlin on 20-21 September 2019. 

Key Results Area (KRA):
KRA 4: Implementation and Visibility

This colloquium for the DSBD and relevant stakeholders, served to highlight the importance of this sector in achieving the goals of the National Development Plan (NDP). The aim was to share knowledge, and interrogate research findings and recommendations in order to develop tangible policy interventions that stimulate growth, promote SMME viability, and further employment creation.

Key Results Area (KRA):
KRA 2: SMMEs and the Informal Sector

This project is developing a series of policy proposals and reports around improving the incomes and livelihoods of up to 2-million subsistence-oriented small holders and 200,000 market-oriented smallholders. It is also exploring the logistics behind the implementation of these policies, including the building of appropriate institutional capacities within Government, partners and beneficiaries.

Key Results Area (KRA):
KRA 2: SMMEs and the Informal Sector

This project was designed to provide insights into how Government can configure itself to best support SMMEs and the growth of entrepreneurship. It set out to build capacity at the Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) and GTAC. Using a Design Thinking methodology, 87 entrepreneurs and stakeholders in the SMME ecosystem were consulted and a range of secondary sources, including an international benchmarking exercise, were extensively reviewed. The project delivered research findings, a policy position paper and institutional design options to realise the proposed recommendations; ultimately, making further progress towards responsive, citizen-centric policymaking in South Africa.

This 3-day Design Thinking in Practice Programme, hosted by the Hasso Plattner School of Design Thinking at UCT (d-school), focused on developing capacity using Design Thinking methodologies. Design Thinking is a human-centred, context responsive approach that works towards developing effective and sustainable solutions. The programme involved multiple stakeholders including the national Departments of Small Business Development and Higher Education and Training, and the Western Cape Department of Economic Affairs and Tourism.

With a view to assisting young people in South Africa who are not in employment, education or training (NEET), this project centres on the development of a Basic Package of Support (BPS). To provide the necessary support and opportunities, it builds on policies, research evidence, international best practice and consultation with youth and other stakeholders.

Key Results Area (KRA):
KRA 1: Active Labour Market Policy Interventions for the Poor

A project that brought together Government, business, labour and community organisations to advance job-creation. The aim was to provide a platform for open discussion on the challenges faced by all social partners in the creation of jobs. The Summit itself is a step towards a coordinated effort to raise employment by 11-million to reach 24-million by 2030, in-line with the National Development Plan.

This research and action project had two main aims: 1) to advance digital skills in order to help stimulate employment and future-proof the Western Cape economy, and 2) to assist the province in becoming a leading digital hub in the global economy by 2030. To achieve these aims, the project helped to embed digital skills across all sectors in the Western Cape. Particular emphasis was placed on strategic growth sectors: Information and communication technology (ICT); retail and wholesale; business and financial services; media and film; and tourism.

Key Results Area (KRA):
KRA 3: Further Education and Skills Development

Capacity-building project to broaden the knowledge base of the Nedlac constituency members through workshops, the collation of literature and analytical capacity assessing projects and proposals tabled throughout the Jobs Summit processes.

In order to better understand the Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) employment outcomes, this project uses a TVET college graduate destination survey mechanism. Data generated will contribute to effective policy and planning, and will also complement the use of labour market intelligence and the Pathway Management System being developed as part of the Presidential Youth Employment Intervention (PYEI).

Key Results Area (KRA):
KRA 3: Further Education and Skills Development

The aim of this project was to update Schedule 1 of the National Small Business Act (NSBA), which defines various parameters of micro, small and medium-sized Enterprises (SMMEs).
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Amendments to this schedule will ensure that these definitions are relevant and applicable to the current structure and nature of SMMEs. The proposed amendments will be informed by various methodologies and statistical research, along with input from a stakeholder workshop and proposal document.

Key Result Area (KRA)
KRA 2: SMMEs and the Informal Sector

This project aimed to support GTAC in fulfilling its role as a collaborative intermediary organisation of choice in building a capable state. It focused specifically on the adoption of a Partnering Framework in order to identify the tools, processes and principles required to do development differently. It also identifies the conditions that would enable successful partnerships and sustainable influence.

A workshop to review the GTAC strategic processes with the aim of improving its value proposition. In particular the workshop explored how Design Thinking principles could be incorporated into GTAC’s capacity-building work. Design Thinking is a citizen-centric approach to problem-solving that employs rapid prototyping and solution iteration, while also encouraging collaborative, multi-stakeholder engagement.