1. Community Work Programme
Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance
And
Traditional Affairs
15 November 2011

2. A. Introduction
The Community Work Programme (CWP) was initiated by the Second Economy Strategy Project an initiative of the Presidency.
In 2007, a pilot programme to test the approach was implemented under the auspices of a partnership between the Presidency and the Department for Social Development, who constituted a Steering Committee and provided oversight.
As a result of initial performance during the pilot phase, the CWP was accepted in 2008 as a new element within the second phase of the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP), and provisionally located within its new ‘non-state’ sector. 2

3. A. Introduction…
In 2009, as further lessons from the pilot emerged, it became clear that the CWP could achieve significant scale, and could also contribute to a number of key strategic goals of government. In the State of Nation Address on the 3 June 2009, President Zuma committed government to ‘fast- track’ the CWP.
To go to scale, it was necessary to establish the CWP as a fully-fledged government programme, with access to full programme funding. Accordingly, the decision was taken to locate CWP within the Department of Co-operative Governance (DCoG) from 1 April 2010. 3

4. B. What is the Community Work Programme?
The CWP aims to provide an employment safety net, by providing a minimum level of regular work opportunities to participants, with a predictable number of days of work provided per month.
This supplements the existing livelihood strategies of participants and provides a basic level of income security through work.
It is targeted at unemployed and/or underemployed people of working age, including those whose livelihood activities are insufficient to lift them out of poverty. 4

5. B. What is the Community Work Programme?....
The Community Work Programme provides access to a minimum level of regular work - 2 days a week = 100 days a year at a wage rate of R60.00 per day.
2. It is an area-based programme, intended to be ongoing; this allows it to target the poorest areas: where market-based jobs are unlikely to come any time soon.
The CWP uses community participation to identify ‘useful work’ and priorities.
‘Work’ is decided in Ward Committees or local development fora; it is multi-sectoral and contributes to public/community goods and services;
Start-up scale: 1,000 participants per site
CWP sites have a 65% labour intensity. 5

6. C. The Community Work Programme and Government Outcomes
Implementation of the Community Work Programme is Output 3: Outcome 9: "A Responsive, Accountable, Effective and Efficient Local Government System“;
The CWP is also one of the Local Government Turn Around Strategy (LGTAS) priorities;
3. The programme also contributes to the following Outcomes:
  Outcome 4: “Decent Employment through Inclusive Growth”. The CWP contributes directly to Jobs Driver 4: Investing in social capital and public services of the New Growth Path (NGP). The NGP explicitly commits government to “extend the Community Work Programme to more wards”.
Outcome 7: “Vibrant, Equitable and Sustainable Rural Communities and Food Security for All”, particularly Output 4: Improved employment opportunities and promotion of economic livelihoods 6

7. C. The Community Work Programme and Government Outcomes
4. The Community Work Programme is a key priority for short-term employment creation as per resolutions of the Cabinet Lekgotla of 26–28 July The Cabinet Lekgotla adopted the scaling up of the Community Work Programme to a million work opportunities by 2013/2014.
The realisation is that the economy and South Africans need a stronger short-term employment boost while new investment projects take root.
The advantage of the CWP is that it has proven its ability to expand rapidly and flexibility while strengthening of the community structures provides a platform for other programmes.
The programme also creates an institutional mechanism that facilitates integrated development at the local level. 7

8. D. CoGTA and the Community Work Programme
CoGTA provides the most appropriate institutional home for CWP :
Local Government is a critical success factor for the CWP.
The programme will have a positive contribution to the objectives of Local Economic Development and Public Participation and Empowerment.
The CWP has the potential to strengthen the interface between local government and communities.
CWP helps deepen community participation in local development planning-a key part of the agenda of strengthening a developmental state. 8

9. E. CWP AND Expanded Public Works Programme
The EPWP is a nationwide programme covering all spheres of government and state-owned enterprises.
It aims to draw significant numbers of unemployed, unskilled people into productive work, so that they increase their capacity to earn an income.
While the EPWP provides an important avenue for labour absorption and income transfers to poor households in the short to medium- term, it was not designed as a policy instrument to address the structural nature of the unemployment crisis
The CWP is a programme within the Non State sector of the of the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) that was introduced in the 2nd Phase of the Programme

10. EPWP and CWP Expanded Public Works Programme Community Work Programme1.
Various ratios of labour intensity
65:35 2.
Sector/Project based work opportunities
Work decided by communities 3.
Number of days depended on sector
Offers 100 days of work spread throughout the year (Regular part-time work) 4.
Scale of participation (Minimum number of participants) varies
1000 participants per site 5.
Managed by contractors/NGOs
Local Management Structures

11. Community Work Programme
Progress to date (2011/2012)
April-September 2011

12. Performance Indicators: Annual Targets
For the period April to September 2011 the programme offered work opportunities to participants. The work opportunities were created in all 9 provinces, across 63 municipalities and covering 480 wards
Indicator
Annual performance
Projections
2010/11
2011/12
2012/13
2013/2014
Total number of work opportunities to be created as per Outcome 9 Delivery Agreement
87 000
Cumulative work opportunities created
89 689 *
* 01 April September 2011 12

13. Performance Indicators: Annual Targets
The actual participation rate in September is 69, 807 and the cumulative participation for April to September is 83, For the last financial year April 2010 to March , 689 participants were part of CWP. 13

14. SUMMARY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS PER PROVINCE (2)14

15. SUMMARY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS PER PROVINCE (2)15

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18. Community Work Programme
Upscaling of the Community Work Programme

19. CWP as an Opportunity to Fast-track Job Creation
CWP’s track record so far demonstrates that it can scale up far faster than its current targets suggest;
With waiting lists of over 1000 participants in most of its existing sites, the programme could double the projected numbers per site with little difficulty;
There is significant demands for new sites;
There are a range of opportunities to scale up particular areas of work already tested in CWP especially in the following areas:
Schools support: Placing matriclulants at public schools
Food security: Food gardens (households, school, ECD)
Environmental work: land rehabilitation, erosion control, greening activities
Home-based care 19

20. The target is to implement the CWP countrywide in all 234 local municipalities and metros and to reach people by 2013/214
Map with Wards

21. Community Work Programme
Expansion Plan

22. 1. The Strategy to reach 1 million participants by 2013/2014
The strategy to reach one million participants by 2013/14 is
based on the following three linked elements:
Extension of CWP’s geographical coverage to additional wards within municipalities.
Intensification of existing work activities, in ways that improve the quality and effectiveness of the work performed: Community Based Care, food security, basic services, Clean Cities and Towns.
Expanding areas of innovation tested in CWP, to contribute additional work opportunities in relation to specific forms of work such as the schools support programme; watershed services in priority River Catchment areas.
By expanding to an average of participants per municipality, a target of 1 million is achievable within the timeframe, using the existing CWP model; with some intensification of work activities.

23. 2. Extension of CWP Geographical Coverage Rollout and Site selection
The target is to ensure a CWP presence in every municipality by 2012/13.
Each of the current sites will also expand to cover all poor wards per municipality by 2013/2014. At present, the CWP covers an average of five to 10 wards per municipality.
There is convergence of information on the identification of the most deprived wards in South Africa.
The greater majority of most deprived wards are in areas serviced by distressed local municipalities
The most populous provinces of KZN, EC, LP and MP happen to have the largest number of poor wards between them.

24. 3. CWP Rollout and Site Selection
Considerations for selection of initial roll-out Municipalities
and wards will be based on the following:
Provincial Indices of Multiple Deprivation (PIMD)-Area-based measures of deprivation. 5 domains of deprivation:
Income and material deprivation
Employment deprivation
Health deprivation
Education deprivation
Living environment deprivation.
Alignment with other National and Provincial Interventions and Programmes: War on Poverty Programme, Presidential Nodal Areas-ISRDP, LGTAS Assessments (vulnerable municipalities), CRDP

25. Community Work Programme
Implementation Model

26. Department of Cooperative Governance
Implementation Model
Department of Cooperative Governance
Lead Agents
Provincial Implementing Agents
Local Implementing Agent
Each IA will have a range of LIA’s

27. Community Work Programme
Job Creation Targets
and
Financial Requirements

28. 1. Scaling up from 2012/13 CURRENT MTEF (‘000) 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15
CWP per current MTEF
CWP additional resources required 3 
11 
CWP budget now required 4  9 
12 
2012/13
2013/14
2014/15
New inception municipalities
171 -
Number of current municipalities 63
Number of municipalities at full capacity
234
Total municipalities at year end
TARGET PARTICIPANTS
2010/11
2011/12
2012/13
2013/14
2014/15
Outcome 9 Delivery Agreement (Participants at year end)
87 000
2012- MTEF: No of participants at year end (1 Million)
89 689
83 791 28

29. Thank You!