The infrastructure sector will be led by the Department of Public Works and  will work together with Departments of Transport, Provincial and Local Government, Water Affairs and Forestry, Minerals and Energy and Sports and Recreation.

Most projects are implemented by the provinces and municipalities and this will continue in the second phase of the programme. While all provinces are already contributing to the EPWP, many provincial departments could increase their contribution further and the continued growth of the sector will depend on the degree to which some of the underperforming provinces can increase their performance by implementing their projects more labour intensively and by establishing dedicated labour intensive maintenance programmes which have the potential to provide regular employment to large numbers of people, especially in rural areas.

At the local government level the focus will also be on:

·     Ensuring that those municipalities that already exceeding their targets based on their MIG allocations keep performing and are able to continue growing their EPWP programmes through accessing the wage incentive

·         Ensuring that those municipalities already implementing the EPWP, but not yet meeting their targets based on their MIG allocations improve their performance so that they can meet the minimum requirements to access the wage incentive

·   Ensuring that those municipalities not yet implementing and reporting on the EPWP start implementing and reporting as required

It is anticipated that the sector will continue to grow and remain the largest sector of the EPWP because of the large investments and allocations already planned for this sector and the continued scope to increase the labour intensity of the infrastructure spending of government.  . While this has proved difficult in the first phase of the programme, it is anticipated that the wage incentive will provide a real boost to the efforts to increase the labour intensity in the second phase of the programme.  The planned output for the five years is the creation of 900 000 full time equivalents of employment.

Infrastructure 5-year Targets:  No. of Work opportunities

Infrastructure 5-year Targets: No of Full time Equivalents