Presented during Tshikululu Social Investments' second annual Serious Social Investing workshop, which took place on 17 and 18 March 2011. Janina Martin (Director: K3 Strategies) discusses job creation attempts, using the platform of Setas as examples.

1. IT MUST MEAN JOBS!
Janina Martin
K3 Strategies
18 March 2011

2. What is Decent Work?
 Decent work is the availability of employment in conditions of freedom, equity, security and
human dignity.
 According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), Decent Work involves
opportunities for work that is productive and delivers a fair income, security in the workplace
and social protection for families, better prospects for personal development and social
integration, freedom for people to express their concerns, organize and participate in the
decisions that affect their lives and equality of opportunity and treatment for all women and
men.
“Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Higher Education has called on the National Skills Fund
(NSF) not to spend millions of rands funding service providers who give youth worthless short-
term course certificates which don’t help them find jobs.”
Francis Hweshe, Article, Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:21, ”NSF criticised for funding short-course certificate programmes”
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3. Employment (South Africa)
30.0
25.0
20.0
Millions/Percent
Employment
15.0
Unemployment
Labour Force
10.0 Unemployment Rate
5.0
0.0
2009Q1
2008Q1
2008Q2
2008Q3
2008Q4
2009Q2
2009Q3
2009Q4
2010Q1
2010Q2
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
Key Labour Market Aggregates, 2001-2010
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4. NSDS III
Vision
• To provide an opportunity for South Africa to achieve its goals towards an integrated
Education & Training System
Purpose
 Improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the skills development system
 Encourage the linking of skills development to career paths, career development &
promoting sustainable employment and in‐work progression.
 Encourage and actively support the integration of workplace training with theoretical
learning
 Facilitate the journey from school, college or university, or even from periods of
unemployment to sustained employment
 Emphasis on training to enable entry into the workforce
 Promote a skills development system and architecture that effectively responds to
labour market needs & social equity needs
 Establish and promote closer links between employers and training institutions and
SETAs.
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5. Partnerships
Collective responsibility for the strategy – between:
• Government
• Business
• Trade unions
• Constituency bodies
• SETAs
• Training providers (incl. HE & FET institutions)
• CBOs, NGOs & Cooperatives
• Trade & Professional bodies
Partnerships are crucial for:
• Increasing productivity
• Developing a skilled & capable workforce
• Improving the efficiency, quality & impact of skills development
Linkages between universities, colleges, SETAs & employers
Leads to training that meets needs of communities & employed
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6. Eight Goals of NSDS III
1. Establishing a credible institutional mechanism for skills planning
2. Increasing access to occupationally-directed programmes
3. Promoting the responsive growth of a public FET college system (local, regional & national)
4. Addressing the low level of youth & adult language and numeracy skills to enable additional
training
5. Encouraging better use of workplace based skills development
6. Encouraging & supporting co-operatives, small enterprises, worker-initiated,
NGO & community training initiatives
7. Increasing public sector capacity for improved service delivery and supporting the building of
a developmental state
8. Building career and vocational guidance.
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7. Outputs of Goal 6
Goal 6: Encouraging & supporting co-operatives, worker-initiated,
NGO & community-initiated training
i. SETAs to identify cooperatives & their skills needs
ii. Sector projects identified by stakeholders and supported by NSF
iii. National database of cooperatives supported with SD is established
iv. SETAs to pilot sector projects & expand with partnership funding
v. Impact of SD support to small businesses is determined and reported on
vi. SETAs to engage with trade unions & cooperatives & NGOs to ID skills needs &
strategies
vii. SETAs to establish quality pilot projects
viii. Stakeholders to expand successful pilots using NSF funds
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8. How will this partnership facilitate decent work?
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9. Why did the chicken cross the road?
 Deregulation of the chicken's side of the road was threatening its dominant market
position.
 The chicken was faced with significant challenges to create and develop the
competencies required for the newly competitive market.
 The organisation, in a partnering relationship with the chickens’ association helped the
chicken by rethinking its physical distribution strategy and implementation processes.
 Using the Poultry Integration Model (PIM), the organisation helped the chicken use its
skills, methodologies, knowledge, capital and experiences to align the chicken's people,
processes and technology in support of its overall strategy within a Program Management
framework.
 The organisation convened a diverse cross-spectrum of road analysts and best chickens
along with subject matter experts with deep skills in the transportation industry to
engage in a two-day workshop in order to successfully architect and implement an
enterprise-wide value framework.
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