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Growth and Development Summit - matters for the dti -

This presentation provides an overview of the Growth and Development Summit (GDS) agreement and processes, key agreements involving the Department of Trade and Industry (dti), and how to manage implementation and post-summit processes.

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Growth and Development Summit - matters for the dti -

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  1. Growth and Development Summit - matters for the dti - Presentation to Trade and Industry Portfolio Committee August 2003

  2. OUTLINE • Overview of the GDS agreement and process • Key agreements involving the dti • Managing implementation and post-summit processes

  3. Overview of the GDS agreement • Vision • More jobs, better jobs, decent work for all • Addressing the investment challenge • Advancing equity, developing skills, creating economic opportunities for all and extending services • Local action and implementation for development • Post-summit engagement: • Decent work and casualisation • Social dialogue at local level

  4. Commitment to engage with unions and business to develop and implement sector strategies • Priority sectors: • Clothing and textile • Cultural industries • Agriculture and agro-processing • Call centres and back office processing • Tourism • Minister to lead 6-monthly review of progress with business and labour • Business to second expertsto the dti and release snr shop stewards Sector partnerships and strategies

  5. Local procurement • Strengthening of the PSA Campaign • Label of origin in clothing sector • Christmas campaign • Procurement in trade negotiations

  6. Support for cooperatives • Endorsement of the ILO Recommendation • Nedlac Task Team to complete work by Nov on a comprehensive strategy • Legislation to be tabled this year • the dti to: • establish cooperatives unit • establish coops advisory board • study tour for all constituencies during 2003 • education campaign • develop appropriate offerings • National conference in mid-2004 to review progress

  7. Jobs impact and monitoring • Gov departments, agencies and parastatals to report on total employment in their annual reports • Marketing of the Workplace Challenge

  8. Investment Mechanisms • Post-GDS process to discuss appropriate investment mechanisms to facilitate the intermediation of funds into ‘deserving investment areas’ • Infrastructure-related and labour-intensive sectors • Possible mechanisms include the IDC and Khula

  9. Input Prices • A review will take place on: • Administered prices • Import Parity Pricing

  10. BEE • Support for gov’s BEE strategy • Constituencies undertook to support the implementation of this strategy particularly wrt procurement

  11. Local Economic Development • Business will mobilise its capacity to work with the dti to extended enterprise support services • Business will work with the dti to explore synergies between LED strategies and sector and sub-sector strategies

  12. Way Foward • Implementation will be monitored by Nedlac’s Executive Council • Relevant issues have been placed on the Trade and Industry Chamber agenda • Nedlac’s Management Committee is preparing an implementation plan • Budget implications for Nedlac (unfunded mandates) • In the dti: • Exbo will monitor implementation

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