1. Strategic Integrated Projects NSA meeting with PSDF & SETAs
Presentation by Adrienne Bird
Special Projects Unit
Department of Higher Education and Training
14 June 2017

2. NIP/SIP & NDP
The National Development Plan (NDP) has 14 chapters – the fourth of which relates to the rolling out of a National Infrastructure Plan (NIP) which consists of 18 Strategic Integrated Projects (SIPs)
The SIPs seek to reverse the under-development of ‘homeland’ areas in SA (apartheid history) and to ‘crowd in’ private sector investment into targeted areas/sectors – roads, railways, harbours, energy, water systems, broadband etc, across all nine provinces.
DHET given the task of ‘Skills for and through SIPs

3. 2. Enabling socio-economic
Overview of the Strategic Integrated Projects
1. Catalytic
2. Enabling socio-economic
Unlocking Northern mineral belt
Durban-Free State-Gauteng Corridor Development
South Eastern Node & Corridor Development
Saldanha-Northern Cape Corridor Development
Greening the South African economy
Electricity Generation
Electricity Transmission and Distribution
Integrated Municipal Infrastructure
Integrated Urban Space and Public Transport
Agro-logistics and rural Infrastructure
Regional Integration
Heavy Haul
Industrial Haul
Electricity
Pipeline
Heavy Haul ……..
3. Crosscutting
Access to communication technology,
SKA and MeerKat
National school build
Higher Education
Revitalisation of public hospitals
Unlocking the economic opportunities in North West Province

4. SIP Projects
A SIP is a portfolio of projects which complement one another in a particular geographical area and/or for a given socio-economic purpose. They comprise:
5 Geographic SIPs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
3 Spatial SIPs 6,7,and 11
3 Social Infrastructure SIPs 12, 13 and 14
3 Energy SIPs 8, 9 and 10
2 Knowledge SIPs 15 and 16
1 Regional SIPs SIP 17
1 Water and Sanitation SIP 18

5. DHET Mandate
DHET Mandate
Outcome 5: A skilled and capable workforce for inclusive growth
Delivery partners: Post-School Education and Training Institutions (Universities, TVET, CETC, Quality Assurance bodies and SETAs)
2012: Special Projects Unit (SPU) established and mandated to formulate and drive the implementation of the SIPs Skills Plan

6. 21 STEP Methodology

7. 21 STEP Methodology Steps 1 – 9: Identify occupations in demand
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21 STEP Methodology
Steps 1 – 9: Identify occupations in demand
Steps 10: Training on project sites
Steps 11 – 16: Develop occupations in demand
Steps 17 – 20: Building the skills of govt.
Step 21: Governance

8. Steps 1 – 9 Projection of demand
Compiled project lists
Typical skills for project types
Estimate skills needed & scarcity
SCARCE SKILLS LIST
(which ones?, how scarce?)
Managers
Professionals & associate professionals
Service and clerical workers
Artisans
Plant and machine operators
Elementary skills

9. ‘Skills for and through SIPs’ Report 2/9/2014
Chapter 1 – National Development Plan and the New Growth Path
Chapter 2 – Estimating the skills required for the SIPS
Chapter 3 – Where are the gaps?
Chapter 4 – Occupational Teams
Chapter 5 – Professionals and Associate Professionals
Chapter 6 – Clerical and Support Workers
Chapter 7 – Trades
Chapter 8 – Plant and Machine Operators
Chapter 9 – Elementary Occupations
Chapter 10 – Managers
Chapter 11 – Planning and Resourcing
Chapter 12 – Gearing the Supply Side to Respond to Occupational Team Recommendations
Chapter 13 – Employment and Career Development Services
Chapter 14 – Going Forward

10. Occupations in demand
SIPs Report includes:
Description
Learning pathway
Challenges
Solutions
For each occupation in demand

11. Trades for the SIPs and more…
Priority trades required across ALL SIPs (and more)
Phakisa √
War on Leaks √
Presentation to HRDC Secretariat 26 May 2017

12. Steps 11 – 16 Developing the skills needed
Professions & associate Professionals:
SETAs asked to support
University Branch in DHET included in Mid-Year Review
Trades
Centres of Specialisation Programme (with focus on 13 priority trades – including building the capacity of the TVET colleges to deliver these with industry partners (SEIFSA, RMI, IOPSA and SAIW as contracted partners)
Provinces
Take the methodology to the provinces to nuance the skills lists

13. A PROTOCOL (Agreement) drafted between DG: DHET and DG: Office of the Premier to collaborate on implementation of method
PROTOCOL CLAUSES:
Preamble
Interpretations and definitions
Commencement and duration
Obligations of the DG of DHET
Provide training in 21 steps
Provide portal and support its use
Occupational teams etc.
Obligations of the DG of the Premier’s Office
Appoint manager
Establish a Provincial Sip Skills Committee (reps per Steps)
Functions of the Provincial Sip Skills Committee
Implement 21 steps in the province
Other legal matters

14. Provincial SIP Skills Committee
Membership
Chairperson (Province)
Steps 1-3 Province planning office reps
Step 6 STATSA / DOL
Step 10 cidb
Step 11 DBE and career development
Steps on supply side – DHET reps
Steps 17 – 20 DPSA/COGTA/MISA/NT
Step 21 Project manager
Support staff: IT; communications, secretariat
Functions
Prepare a plan
Determine priority occupations
Inform DHET for Strategic Planning approval process
Engage with providers to address gaps (colleges, universities, SETAs etc.)
Set targets
Unblock challenges
Employer campaigns for workplace learning (with SETAs)

15. 21 Step process being taken to provinces
Provinces signed to date: KZN, Eastern Cape, Free State, North West and Mpumalanga. Gauteng and Northern Cape ‘promising’.
KZN: has used methodology to analyse skills required for both the SIP and catalytic projects in the province. First scarce skills list now complete. Will now meet with SETAs, Universities and Colleges in province to embed needs into strategic plans.
NW: we have received project lists
from Sanral and now will run
the model to project demands. First
scarce skills list will be completed
by second quarter.
Other provinces – in process

16. KZN
First scarce skills list already submitted to DHET, it talks to the SIP projects and provincial catalytic projects
Assembled four committees for implementation of the 21 step methodology
Provincial SIP Skills Steering Committee (PSSSC) which oversees the work of the sub-committees;
Infrastructure Technical Team (ITT); a group of engineers and project managers gathered to produce a comprehensive scarce skills list (Step 1 – 3)
State Capacity Technical Team (SCTT); employees from different departments gathered to assess the capacity of the state in terms of implementation of the 21 step and more
Skills Supply Technical Team (SSTT); employees from different departments to assess elementary schools up to university in terms of delivery for the SIPs

17. Discussion
How best can these executive Protocol structures complement the PSDF work? Is improved alignment possible?