Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP)
The Social Sector EPWP Incentive Grant is a specifically and exclusively appropriated budgetary allocation to incentivise eligible social sector provincial departments to strengthen and expand existing and potential EPWP programmes belonging to the Social Sector as identified and included in the Social Sector Log Frame to achieve a targeted number of Work Opportunities (W/O) and Full Time Equivalents. T his is a Division of Revenue Act 3 of 2016, Schedule 5A conditional grant transferred by National Public Works (Vote 11) for Provinces. The Incentive Grant as one of the critical fundamentals to guarantee that the 5-year EPWP Social Sector Plan 2014 – 2019 expresses focus on current and new areas for improvement and expansion to contribute to reducing unemployment by creating temporary employment for the unemployed annu ally.
The principles of the Social Sector EPWP Incentive Grant
Central to the Social Sector EPWP Incentive Grant is that the EPWP work and programmes must comply with the Ministerial Determination and the Code of Good Practice for Expanded Public Works Programme as issued by the Department of Labour as well other legislation e.g. Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act (COIDA) and Unemployment Insurance Fund Act (UIF)
The Incentive Grant fundamentally supplements existing funding resources for provincial social sector programmes by providing a dedicated source of expansion funding to performing provincial social sector programmes. These programmes are currently co-funded by national government (through conditional grants), provincial government (through the equitable share) and well as by civil society (non-government) organisations. As long as the provincial department continues to fund these programmes, and they create work, report on the EPWP Reporting System; the incentive grant can be accessed.
The Department of Social Development plans to utilize its allocation to strengthen or expand on all its current eligible programmes delivering services to communities within the Northern Cape. An increased Incentive allocation will enable the Department where possible to further expand or fund new social sector programmes whose outcomes will be to:
The Department of Social Development had for the 2017/18 Financial Year co-funded the following programmes through its equitable share allocation as well as the Social Sector EPWP Incentive Grant;
Social Sector EPWP Incentive Grant for 824 participants, namely:
Equitable Share Allocation for 33 participants namely:
Department of Social Development
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