Infrastructure Sector
Infrastructure Sector Overview
The infrastructure sector is led by the Department of Public Works (DPW). The Department also collaborates with the Departments of: Transport; Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs; Water Affairs; Mineral Resources; and Energy.
The Infrastructure sector involves the use of labour-intensive methods in the construction and maintenance of public sector funded infrastructure projects. Labour intensive infrastructure projects under the EPWP entail:
- using labour-intensive construction methods to provide work opportunities to local unemployed people;
- providing training and skills development to the locally unemployed people; and
- building cost effective and quality assets.
Most projects are implemented by the provinces and municipalities. While all provinces and 99% of municipalities are already contributing to the EPWP, many provincial departments and municipalities could increase their contribution further and the continued growth of the sector will depend on the degree to which some of the underperforming provinces and municipalities 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.
EPWP Infrastructure Sector Programmes
The key EPWP Infrastructure programmes include:
- Vukâuphile: pertains to training of individuals in labour intensive methods of construction to become contractors at NQF level 2 and supervisors at NQF level 4,
- National Youth Service: A year-long skills training and development intervention. It aims to provide unemployed youth with technical skills and life skills training, access to practical work experience and mentoring;
- Large Projects: these are projects with a minimum budget of R30m or more. Ensure that delivery of large budgets projects will be based on EPWP principles and ensure meaningful development of emerging contractors; and
- Provincial Roads: In the Provincial roads programme, assistance is provided to Provincial Roads Departments to help them implement projects and programmes labour-intensively. The support provided to Provincial roads departments is done in partnership with the National Department of Transport. The focus in the Provincial roads programme is on rural access roads.
In addition, DPW provides technical support to assist them to: design and implement programmes/ projects labour intensively and to report on EPWP projects.
- EPWP Integrated Grant Manual 24-25
- EPWP Integrated Grant Manual 22-23
- EPWP Integrated Grant Manual 2020/21, Version 12, April 2020
- EPWP Infrastructure Guidelines 3rd Edition June 2015
- EPWP Integrated Grant Manual 2019/20 Version 11 April 2019
- EPWP Integrated Grant Manual 2018/19 Version 10 April 2018
- EPWP Integrated Grant Manual 2017/18, Version 9, April 2017
- EPWP Integrated Grant Manual 2014/15, Version 6, April 2014
- EPWP Integrated Grant Manual: Annexures 2014/15, Version 6, April 2014
- EPWP Integrated Grant Manual 2013/14, Version 5, April 2013
- EPWP Integrated Grant Manual: Annexures 2013/14, Version 5, 2013
- 2012/13 EPWP Grant Manual
- 2011 EPWP Incentive Grant for Provinces and Municipalities
- 2009 EPWP Infrastructure Sector Incentive Manual
- GUIDELINES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE PROGRAMME (COVER)
- GUIDELINES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE PROGRAMME
- National Youth Service Brochure
- Amendment of Sectoral Determination 5: Learnership Sector Basic Conditions of Employment Act no: 75 of 1997
- Basic Conditions of Employment Act, 1997
- Basic Conditions of Employment Act, 1997 Ministerial Determination 4: Expanded Public Works Programme
- National Youth Service (NYS) Application Form
- National Youth Service (NYS) Acceptance Letter
- National Youth Service (NYS) Additional Specifications
- National Youth Service (NYS) Advert
- National Youth Service (NYS) Briefing Notes
- National Youth Service (NYS) Exit Framework
- Youth Service (NYS) Learner Contract of Employment
- National Youth Service (NYS) Learner-Contractor Contract
- National Youth Service (NYS) List of Learner Tools
- National Youth Service (NYS) Orientation and Life Skills
- Skills National Youth Service (NYS) Time Sheet
- National Youth Service (NYS) Workplace Logbook
- National Youth Service Programme (NYS) Implementation Framework 2012
- EPWP Technical Brief: Project Cycle Management, 19 May 2012
- EPWP Technical Brief: Principles for Project Cost Estimating, 13 December 2011
- EPWP Technical Brief: Task System, 31 May 2011
- Good Practice Guide to Labour-Based Methods - Construction of Low Volume Sealed Roads 2013
- Labour Intensive Construction Guideline for Water Provision, Sanitation, Solid Waste and Building Works 2011
- The Impact Assesment of the effectiveness of the Vukuphle Learnership Programme
- EPWP Contractor Learnership Programme: Management Plan for Labour Intensive Construction Learnership (Revision 6) March 2006
- Construction Education and Training Authority: Allowance Guideline
- Construction Education and Training Authority: Construction Contractor NQF Level 2
- Construction Education and Training Authority: Learnership Agreement Registration
- Construction Education and Training Authority Construction: Supervisor NQF Level 4
- EPWP Contractor Learnership Programme Management Plan for Labour Intensive Construction Learnership
- Expanded Public Works Programme: Learnership Memorandum of Agreement
- Expanded Public Works Programme: Learner Application Form
- Payment of allowance template
- Expanded Public Works Programme: Learnership Advertisement
- Expanded Public Works Programme: Example Contract for Learner Contractors
- Expanded Public Works Programme: Contract between Learner Contractor and Learner Supervisor
- Expanded Public Works Programme: Guideline on Project Selection for Learner Contractors
- Expanded Public Works programme: Standard Budget Template
- Expanded Public Works Programme: Contractor Learnership Programme Template
- Expanded Public Works Programme: Learner Profile Template
- Construction Education and Training Authority Learnership Contract
- Expanded Public Works Programme: Generic Learnership Plan
- Memorandum of Agreement between the Department of Public Works and Construction Education and Training Authority
- Letter from Tender Board
- Memorandum of Agreement between Department of Public Works, Construction Education and Training Authority and ABSA
- Expanded Public Works Programme: Responsibility Matrix
- EPWP Contractor Learnership Programme: Management Plan for Labour Intensive Construction Learnership (Revision 4b) August 2005
- EPWP Learnership Programme: Mentor Terms of Reference (Revision 6) January 2005
- Letter from Treasury-2005