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Sunday, 17 June 2018

Community Work Programme - background materials

  • Year 2018
These background materials on the Community Work Programme were prepared as part of induction training for non-profit agencies appointed to implement the CWP, and as an introduction for other stakeholders. The materials were originally developed for the Department of Co-operative Governance by TIPS in 2013. They have been partly updated…
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Sunday, 08 December 2013

The Community Work Programme: Building a Society that Works

  • Year 2013
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Kate Philip
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
In the context of a global jobs crisis, there is renewed interest in the role of public employment in providing work opportunities. This context has also seen a range innovation in public employment, with new forms of work and new approaches to implementation and delivering different kinds of outcomes. The…
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Friday, 23 August 2013

An Appraisal of Local Economic Development Impact Assessment Methodologies in the Context of the Community Work Programme

  • Year 2013
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Evans Chinembiri; Mbofholowo Tsedu
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper looks at the strengths and weaknesses of current methodologies in capturing the kinds of local economic development impacts from the CWP. It aims to fill the gap of methodologies available for measuring economic multipliers in a local economy. (The Employment Promotion Programme (EPP) Research)
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Tuesday, 20 August 2013

The Transformative Potential of Public Employment Programmes

  • Year 2013
  • Organisation University of Cape Town Graduate School of Development Policy and Practice
  • Author(s) Kate Philip
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
After the Great Depression in the 1930s, part of the recovery in the United States of America relied upon a massive programme of public works, under the Works Progress Administration. Its impact was not just as a stimulus; it also provided a focus of social participation and inclusion. Yet, in…
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Thursday, 25 April 2013

The South African Community Capability Study: The Context of Public Primary Education and the Community Work Programme

  • Year 2013
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Centre for Democratising Information
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
A key part of the motivation to potentially scale up the CWP to a million participants included a proposed strategy of support to schools. This research looks at the impact of CWP's schools support at a sample of schools that have received such support. (The Employment Promotion Programme (EPP) Research)  
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Thursday, 25 April 2013

The South African Community Capability Study: The Community Work Programme

  • Year 2013
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Centre for Democratising Information.
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This qualitative study assessed the impact of the Community Work Programme (CWP) on the capabilities of participants and communities. It showed the programme had significantly expanded participants capability set and had contributed to improving both individual and community wellbeing. (The Employment Promotion Programme (EPP) Research)
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Thursday, 25 April 2013

Predicting Poverty Impacts of Expanding the Community Work Programme in South Africa

  • Year 2013
  • Organisation Development Policy Research Unit
  • Author(s) DPRU
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper looks at the role that potential poverty-reducing impact that the CWP could have is expanded. While acknowledging that there are significant non-monetary impacts, the focus is on measuring the impact that earning the CWP wage would have on household poverty and inequality. (The Employment Promotion Programme (EPP) Research)
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Monday, 23 January 2012

Assessment of crèches supported by the Bohlabela Community Work Programme October 2011 by Lima Rural Development Foundation

  • Year 2012
  • Organisation TEBA; Lima
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The Community Work Programme (CWP) was implemented as a pilot programme in Bushbuckridge and several other municipalities in 2009. The programme is essentially an employment safety net employing 2 200 people in Bushbuckridge within four sectors of community work, these being food security, palliative care, community infrastructure refurbishment and teacher…
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Monday, 14 November 2011

A qualitative evaluation of the Community Work Programme - Umthwalume CWP October 2011 by Thutong Training and Development

  • Year 2011
  • Organisation Thutong Training and Development
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The findings clearly answer the question of how beneficiaries have been impacted by CWP. The findings show that the beneficiaries are pleased with the quality of services that are provided through the CWP programme such as home based care, cleaning of cre?ches and teachers assistants etc. It becomes evident that…
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Wednesday, 09 November 2011

Studying the impact of the Community Work Programme on its participants , Matric geography project 2011 Bohlahela CWP

  • Year 2011
  • Author(s) Megan Cochrane
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Aim: The Community Work Programme (CWP) is an initiative of the State President's office which is designed to create an employment safety net in rural areas. The aim of this investigation is to study whether or not the CWP has made a positive impact on the lives of its participants…
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Friday, 15 July 2011

Inequality and economic marginalisation: How the structure of the economy impacts on opportunities on the margins

  • Year 2011
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Kate Philip
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
In the face of a long-standing unemployment crisis that increasingly threatens social and economic stability, employment has at last taken centre stage in South African policy, and with this, focus is shifting to the structural constraints on employment creation within the economy. The New Growth Path, approved by Cabinet in…
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Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Towards a Right to Work: The Rationale for an Employment Guarantee in South Africa

  • Year 2011
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Kate Philip
  • Countries and Regions India, South Africa
What if unemployed people in South Africa had a right – a real right – to a minimum level of regular work on decent terms? In 2005, India passed a law guaranteeing rural households up to 100 days of work per annum, at minimum wage rates. Over 55 million households…
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Thursday, 09 December 2010

Towards a Right to Work: The Rationale for an Employment Guarantee in South Africa

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Kate Philip
  • Countries and Regions India, South Africa
What if unemployed people in South Africa had a right – a real right – to a minimum level of regular work, on decent terms?   In 2005, India passed a law guaranteeing rural households up to 100 days of work per annum, at minimum wage rates. Over 55 million…
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Thursday, 23 September 2010

Mitigating a Jobs Crisis: Innovations in Public Employment Programmes (IPEP)

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation International Labour Office - Geneva
  • Author(s) Maikel Lieuw-Kie-Song; Kate Philip
Description Unemployment and other employment-related problems do not occur only in times of crisis. As observed by the ILO, there was a Jobs Crisis before the financial crisis, a structural unemployment problem as a result of jobless growth in many areas of the world. Investment in infrastructure development can play an…
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Thursday, 23 September 2010

Inequalities in Emerging Economies: What role for Labour Market and Social Policies?

  • Year 2010
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Kate Philip
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The OECD held a one-day workshop in Paris in May 2010 to present the findings of a series of papers commissioned on this topic from Brazil, India, China and South Africa. Kate Philip was there. For South Africans attending the OECD conference, watching the comparative slides on global trends flashing…
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