Presentation to Portfolio Committee on Labour Budget Hearings 13 March 2007

Presentation outline About UYF Access & Visibility Key National Priorities –National Youth Service Programme –Micro Finance –Graduate Placement & Development Programme Increased attention to other aspects –Volunteer mentorship –Partnership with the private sector –Support to People with Disabilities

About UYF Major thrust is to focus on: facilitating access to exit opportunities and linkages to opportunities. –Linking to employment through Information linking employers & job seekers – Jobs & Opportunities Seekers Database (i.e. graduate database) Job preparation - Graduate Development Programme

About UYF Facilitating self-employment by: –Entrepreneurship education – In-school & out-of- school entrepreneurship education (including New Venture Creation Learnership) & cooperatives training –Linking to procurement – Business Opportunities Support Service –Business development support - Voucher programme & Volunteer Mentorship Programme –Providing access to finance to SMMEs & Cooperatives – Micro loans, Small Loans, & Medium loans

About UYF Manage the National Youth Service Programme & provide project management support to ASGISA / JIPSA related programmes Provide access to programmes, products & services through: –Service Delivery Channel – Youth Advisory Centres, Portal, Call Centre & Youth Card –Information and counselling - using the Service Delivery channel (on employment, self-employment, career development, civic participation)

Access & Visibility Suffered from Wholesale approach whereby intermediaries where the face of the organisation Service Delivery Channel means having presence in communities through YACs, etc. 30 additional Youth Advisory Centres are planned (mostly access points linked to UYF operated offices). Aim to be in all municipalities also through partnerships (Labour Centres & Municipal Offices). In discussion with Department of Justice – to have information desks at their facilities

Key National Priorities State of the Nation Address –National Youth Service – unemployed youth; volunteers –EPWP – NYSP – 5000 youth in building maintenance programme –Increased access to Micro Finance –Youth Cooperatives Programme –Business support –Graduate Placement

Key National Priorities ASGISA –Most of the programmes are part of ASGISA –Manage key programmes under JIPSA – e.g. Partnership with TATA Motors, Micro Soft, Training of youth in India, Support from Chinese government

Increase attention Volunteer Mentorship Programme – a call to business to support youth Increased partnership with the private sector

Corporate Social Investment CSI expenditure by development sectors: 2006 Sector% CSI budgetRand value Education31R893 million Health17R490 million Social development16R461 million Job creation12R346 million Training11R317 million Sports development4R115 million Environment3R86 million Arts and culture3R86 million Safety and security2R58 million Housing1R29 million Total100R2.88 billion

Support to People with Disabilities Framework being developed to focus: –Improving accessibility – e.g. material to be accessible to blind people, specific outreach to people with disabilities –Youth Service Programmes – focus on specific programmes (e.g. Siyanceda programme) and developing capacity to support disabled youth –Awareness – e.g. “Bring a disabled person to work day/ week”

3 rd Quarter Results 128 operational YACs include; 112 YAC Points, 3 Labour Centres, 9 GCIS’s Information Resource Centres, 1 UYF Operated YAC and 7 former NICRO and The Nations Trust offices. 4 Mobile YAC vehicles hits have been registered against a target of 3 million hits calls to Call Centre against a target of With a target to register 10,000 young people - To date young people served in the NYS programmes

3 rd Quarter Results 650 (year target of 1000) in the Graduate Development Programme learners and 360 teachers in 100 schools in all nine (9) provinces attend the EE programme learners and 704 teachers in 154 schools in 6 provinces. A further learners and 60 teachers will be admitted to the programme in the Western Cape, NorthWest and Northern Cape by April 2007.

3 rd Quarter Results SME Finance : R56 million to 105 SMEs target – R64 million to 77 SMEs 7000 vouchers against a target of micro loans against a target of 9000 issued