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LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT WORKSHOP

LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT WORKSHOP. CAPACITY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO SUPPORT YOUTH EMPOWERMENT- Presentation by David Gengan: MSUNDUZI MUNICIPALITY. THE ROLES OF MUNICIPALITIES . National Youth Economic Empowerment Strategy

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LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT WORKSHOP

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  1. LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT WORKSHOP CAPACITY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO SUPPORT YOUTH EMPOWERMENT-Presentation by David Gengan: MSUNDUZI MUNICIPALITY

  2. THE ROLES OF MUNICIPALITIES • National Youth Economic Empowerment Strategy • To promote and support youth economic empowerment in the municipalities; • To develop youth economic empowerment policies, strategies and programmes aligned with the NYEES; • To mainstream youth in all their core LED and IDP programmes; • To establish youth directorates/desks in the districts and local municipalities to coordinate and facilitate youth economic development activities;

  3. CAPACITY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO SUPPORT YOUTH EMPLOYMENT • Key Performance Areas of Local Government • Municipal transformation and institutional development • Financial viability and management • Infrastructure development and service delivery • Social and economic development • Good governance and community participation • This is an onerous responsibility placed on municipalities • Social and economic development is a new mandate • Struggle to fulfill this mandate, especially by the smaller municipalities

  4. CAPACITY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO SUPPORT YOUTH EMPLOYMENT • Local government is the face of government to the people • We are the point of delivery • Yet, local government, in the main, does not have the capacity to raise the financial and human resources to deliver on its mandate • Limited funding sources: property rates, profits from service charges, grants • 87% of municipalities in the country are in serious financial trouble

  5. CAPACITY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO SUPPORT YOUTH EMPLOYMENT • Proposed interventions: • Improving basic education • Assistance with job searching • Access to start up funds for small enterprises • Wage subsidies • Employer subsidies • Learnerships, apprenticeships and internships • Improved government policies and programmes • Targetted skills development programmes • Career guidance and counselling • Labour market interventions • Private sector commitment

  6. CAPACITY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO SUPPORT YOUTH EMPLOYMENT • Notwithstanding the capacity challenges faced by municipalities, there are some innovative support programmes that are being implemented in some municipalities – from case studies presented • A potential major area of support is in the procurement of goods and services • All municipalities procure goods and services • Preferential procurement policies must reflect support for youth owned businesses • Specific targets should be set annually, and monitored

  7. CAPACITY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO SUPPORT YOUTH EMPLOYMENT • Community based maintenance and service delivery projects – unskilled unemployed youth, ward based • Most municipalities are struggling to provide a basic level of service – refuse removal, grass cutting, road maintenance, street cleaning • Environmental management – public open spaces, alien vegetation • Increasing the number of internships, apprenticeships and learnerships

  8. CAPACITY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO SUPPORT YOUTH EMPLOYMENT • Targetted skills training – external, in partnership with tertiary institutions • Creating a conducive environment for small business development – incentives programme • Well resourced Youth Advisory Centres • Job search information access • Identification of potential entrepreneurs

  9. MSUNDUZI INTERVENTIONS • Municipality has signed an MOU with the NYDA • Local Youth Advisory Centre was re-launched in March 2012 • Staffing: • 3 staff members: • Officer for Economic Development • Officer for Career Guidance • Officer for Outreach Programmes • The NYDA provided training for the staff

  10. MSUNDUZI INTERVENTIONS • The Advisory Centre follows the programme of the NYDA • In the main services of business support and career guidance are provided • July 2012 – 91 youth contacted the centre • Computer training – 23 • Business support – 36 • Job Information – 16 • Community based service projects • Skills training – ICT • Mainstreaming – capital projects

  11. MSUNDUZI -Employed by age

  12. Unemployed by age and educational level

  13. CONSTRAINTS • Lack of youth development policy and strategy • Funding and human resources • Limited capacity to absorb learnerships, internships • Limited direct employment capacity • No control over the external drivers of job creation

  14. CONCLUSION • I want to comment on a more long term intervention – overhaul of our education and training system which is crucial to the calibre of school leavers that we are producing • Teacher training and retraining • Curriculum changes • More relevant learning areas • Vocational training • Re-introduction of technical subjects • Better skills – ethos of enterprise • Discipline

  15. THANK YOU

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