Baseline Information on Poverty in the City of Tshwane
Welfare and safety nets are an integral part of the government’s response to poverty and inequality. The Division: Integrated Community Development in the Tshwane Metropolitan Council aims to ensure that the needs of women, children, youth, people with disabilities and older person are catered for in an integrated manner. The division commissioned the Human Sciences…
read more >>Early Childhood Development Services in Tshwane Scoping Study Findings and Strategy Report
Altman and Motala assess the delivery of ECD services provided by the City of Tshwane. They propose critical strategic interventions for responsibly and effectively meeting the needs of young children, providing quality care for them, and enhancing the employment opportunities for (mainly low-skilled) women. The strategic interventions identified in this report will contribute to the…
read more >>Strategic interventions to support youth employability
Altman and Marock outline a proposed approach to improving the employability of young people in the Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality. These Strategic Interventions for Youth Employability (SIYE) will become a subset of Tshwane‘s Youth Employment Strategy which is in the process of being designed. These early interventions will therefore focus on specific target groups that have…
read more >>Employment Creation through Preferential Procurement and Enterprise Development
Initiated in 2008, the Human Sciences Research Council’s Employment through Procurement Project developed a knowledge base of procurement and enterprise development strategies to achieve socio-economic objectives, with an emphasis on employment creation. It focused on whether programmes contributed to: The creation of enterprises that supply previously imported goods and services – Increased competitiveness of existing…
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