- Title
- An evaluation of the expanded public works programme in the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, Eastern Cape Province
- Creator
- Ntwasa, Andisa
- Subject
- Public works -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Poverty -- Government policy -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MPA
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/8802
- Identifier
- vital:33599
- Description
- The evaluation of the EPWP within the BCMM will assist the municipality in enhancing the metropolitan’s capacity to deliver the services of the EPWP by ensuring that challenges are addressed, an integrated approach is adopted and that the programme implementation receives the necessary support in order to develop communities. Cabinet has adopted the EPWP as its main tool for creating job opportunities. It has been approved as a conceptual framework with a specific role and targets for each municipality programme. The EPWP also engages the creation of job opportunities for unemployed people which enables them to participate in the economy; eventually they will make a contribution to their communities’ development and to the country as a whole. (National EPWP Guidelines, 2003:4). The EPWP is significant because it aims to expand the creation of temporary job opportunities which will give unemployed and poor people some income. The BCMM has focused on strengthening and expanding its EPWP, predominantly in the infrastructure sector. The emphasis has been on job creation through intensive methods in housing and infrastructure projects, as well as on improving reporting, monitoring and evaluation. Thus, the decision was taken to house the EPWP unit within the Directorate of Infrastructure Services for efficient administration, as most infrastructure projects are implemented within the directorate. To improve the implementation of the EPWP, and to be effective within the metropolitan, the programme should incorporate all activities within the municipality. Therefore, every project implemented, as per the municipality’s Integrated Development Plan (IDP), should be required to promote all possible EPWP opportunities. All existing projects should be restructured in order to promote greater employment opportunities. The municipality needs to increase emphasis on labour intensive construction methods, the rollout of the EPWP in the social and environmental and culture sectors, and the municipality should evince a greater level of EPWP participation.
- Format
- 64 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Management and Commerce
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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