1. Skills development 2001/2 Manager: Sector Skills Planning Tebogo Makgatho

2. Grant A Deadline was 31 January 2002 630 companies are participating this year All done online 60% have been paid Information currently being analysed

3. Grant B F/Y 2001/2 1 st Phase Deadline – 30 April 2002 2 nd Phase Deadline – 31May 2002 Template available Guideline available Online grant system will be live on 2 April 2002

4. Grant C Non- discretionary 1 st Phase Deadline – 30 April 2002 2 nd Phase Deadline – 31May 2002 Proposal Guideline available SSP Executive summary available

5. Grant C Discretionary 1 st Phase Deadline – 30 April 2002 2 nd Phase Deadline – 31 May 2002 Proposal guideline available SSP Executive summary available

6. Online grant system/ Call Centre Call center service to be purchased – currently reviewing proposals First point of contact for stakeholders To support SDF’s with the following queries Grants/levies/financials Inter SETA transfers SDF registration, WSP’s and Implementation Report Implementation soon

7. Grant deadlines Financial year 2002/3 Grant A – 31 July 2002 Grant B – March 2003 Grant C – March 2003

8. SDF Training SDF’s requested training intervention to help and support them ISETT to provide this training at two levels: In partnership with UWC as a qualification NQF5 Diploma over 12 months In partnership with another service provider on 3 day workshops to be held throughout the country Address unit standards on SDF functions To be implemented soon

9. ACHIEVEMENTS!!! Completed International benchmarking study Completed careers guide Completed SMME needs analysis survey Collection of labour market statistics Maths and Science and Computer literacy projects KZN –PMB ( 120 Learners) VENDA (1000 learners) Eastern Cape ( 150 learners)

10. ACHIEVEMENTS!!! ISETT Mobile built in WC to be deployed in EC Research survey on SMME needs completed and culminated in support to 23 SMME’s to comply in order to qualify for pilot training project SDF Qualification delivered in conjunction with UWC to 50 SDF’s (WC,Gauteng,KZN)

11. ACHIEVEMENTS!!! 90 Independent SDF’s appointed throughout the country ( responsible for 400 new companies participating) Increased participation of companies by 260%

12. Ongoing new projects SMME Training programme (23 Piloted) Training for disabled and unemployed youth in NP (In conjunction with IBM ACE) Java, C++,VB,etc) Training programme for unemployed youth in NC Training for 24 youths in software development and database systems Maths, Science and computer literacy – Soweto SDF 3 day training workshops to commence

13. Thank You tebogo.makgatho@isett.org.za Please visit our website www.isett.org.za