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Department: Public Works and Infrastructure
x Optimising entrepreneurship and job opportunities for socio-economic transformation of emerging
SMMEs (Cooperatives, emerging contractors, town and village economies) and HDIs in general;
x Robust skills development for quality, efficient and sustainable infrastructure delivery, employability and
/ or active participation in the economic activities;
x Utilisation of government land and buildings in urban and rural areas as a catalyst for spatially balanced
economy that facilitates socio-economic transformation and progressively changes the spatial
disparities that are symbolic of apartheid geography of the province;
x Promoting Local Economic Development through procurement processes;
x Targeted youth employment and Broad-Based Black economic empowerment for designated groups;
and
x Re-looking at the professional services within the built environment with the intention to address skills
required within the various sectors and address skewed patterns of professional representations in the
built environment professional councils.

Programme 3 with a budget of R136.862 million in 2023/24 addresses the United Nations and African
Union priorities stated in SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic growth; SDG 4: Quality Education to ensure
inclusive and equitable education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all; P-MTSF Priority 2:
Economic Transformation and Job Creation, P-MTSF Priority 3: Education, Skills and Health, PDP Goal
1: Innovative and inclusive growing economy, PDP Goal 2: An enabling infrastructure network, PDP Goal
4: Human development, and the EC 5 Point Recovery Plan- Equitable and Inclusive Transformation. These
priorities will be implemented through the 2 sector-aligned departmental outcomes of “Transformed Built
Environment and Optimised job Opportunities”.

Optimised Work Opportunities
This outcome focuses on the restructuring some of the programmes of the department to optimise the
creation of work opportunities in the delivery of infrastructure and through the Expanded Public Works
Programme (EPWP) to create more decent and sustainable jobs. Furthermore, the department will
coordinate the reporting of jobs created by all public bodies through EPWP and all Public Infrastructure
including Strategic Infrastructure Projects (SIPs) and Provincial Strategic projects (PSPs), thereby
contributing towards poverty alleviation and the reduction of unemployment.

Programme 1 with a budget of R482.806 million in 2023/24, focuses on ensuring that the department is
capacitated to become a capable, ethical and developmental institution of the state. It means that, this
programme should configure the technical functioning and day-to-day operations to meet the requirements
of a technically efficient, strategically capable and ethically sound developmental institution that will
ultimately address the legitimate needs and expectations of the people for a better quality of life and a
decent standard of living.
This is in line with National Priority No. 1: Building a Capable, Ethical and Developmental State, aligned
with the Provincial Goal No. 6 that talks to the establishment and strengthening of capable democratic
institutions, which emanates from the African Union (AU) Agenda 2063. The department has also linked
the AU agenda with the Sustainable Developmental goals SDG No. 16 that talks to Peace, Justice and
Strong Institutions.
In creating an enabling environment and supporting all programmes to be capable of efficiently driving the
developmental agenda of the country within the ambit of the department’s mandate. The programme will
focus on the following outcomes:
x Building a resilient and capacitated Public Works and Infrastructure by focusing on ensuring
skilled and capable departmental workforce including, technical, leadership and management staff;
prudent and sustainable management of departmental financial resources including implementation of
a Local Economic Development Framework; improved governance and accountability; transformed,
integrated and innovative service delivery; and agile technology and enabling systems.

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