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PRESENTATION TO THE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON WOMEN, CHILDREN

AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITY

PRESENTED BY MR. SIPHO ZIKODE : DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL

ENTEPRISE DEVELOPMENT AND EMPOWERMENT DIVISION

DATE: 23 MAY 2012

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VISION OF THE DTI

THE DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY’S VISION IS OF

A SOUTH AFRICA THAT HAS A VIBRANT ECONOMY,

CHARACTERISED BY GROWTH, EMPLOYMENT AND EQUITY,

BUILT ON THE FULL POTENTIAL OF ALL CITIZENS.

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• Provide leadership to the SA economy through its understanding of the economy, its ability to identify economic opportunities and potential, and its contribution

• Act as a catalyst for the transformation and development of the economy and respond to the challenges and opportunities of the economic citizens, in order to support the government's economic goals of growth, employment and equity.

• Respond to the challenges and opportunities in the economy and society.

• Provide a predictable, competitive, equitable and socially responsible environment for investment, enterprise and trade.

THE DTI’S MISSION

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• The Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) recognises the vital importance of women’s economic empowerment as a main aspect towards mainstreaming women’s business within the boarder South African economy

• The Gender and Women Empowerment (GWE) Unit of the dti was established to ensure that the empowerment of women forms part of the broader mandate of the dti.

• Through this unit, the dti is tasked with the responsibility to champion women economic empowerment and participation, as well as ensuring that women owned enterprises are integrated into the mainstream economic activity in South Africa

THE DTI’S MISSION CONTINUED

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LOCATION OF THE GENDER UNIT

GWE is located within the Empowerment & Enterprise Development Division meant to facilitate broad participation and the overall restructuring of South Africa’s economy- MAINSTREAM ECONOMIC PARTICIPATION. To promote, contribute to and provide:

•Gender - sensitive policies and programs for trade and industry

•Implement Women Specific Programs

•Foster networks, linkages and partnerships for strategic opportunities-

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•Lobbying and policy advocacy

VISION & LOCATION

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LOCATION OF THE GENDER UNIT CONTINUED

• Intensify our research in the area of women enterprises/ gender

equality to gain better understating of the opportunities and the

challenges presented.

• Introducing Women into higher value add production in the 10

Set Aside

• Inclusion of new entrants in the economic space, registration of

women owned businesses operating in the informal sector.

VISION & LOCATION

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GENDER UNIT PROGRAMSEEDD

GWE UNIT

Strategic Framework on Gender and Women’s Economic Empowerment

Technology for Women In

Business (TWIB)

South African Women Entrepreneurs’ Network (SAWEN)

Isivande Women’s

Fund(IWF)

Women owned

factories ( China –

Sa)

ROLE OF THE GENDER UNIT

Techno-girl entrepreneur

ial programme

Capacity Building

(Bavumile)

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NATIONAL STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK

• the dti is in the process of finalizing the National strategic Framework

on Women’s economic Empowerment. This process was informed by a

detailed research on the enabling environment for women

entrepreneurs as well as a national consultation with women and key

stakeholders .

• The Framework is championed by the Deputy Minister and seeks to

provide guidance, focus, and specific recommendations for the support

required to ensure women’s full participation in our economy. As such,

it is an important milestone in the economic emancipation of women in

South Africa.

PROGRAMMES

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NATIONAL STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK CONTINUED

• This framework outlines several programme initiatives focused

specifically on women enterprise, women in business and other

target group, and address gender inequalities with the aim to

enhance resource allocation and pave way for women and full

participation in the economic growth of the country

PROGRAMMES

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ISIVANDE WOMEN’S FUND

• An exclusive women’s fund that aims to accelerate accelerate women’s economic empowerment by providing affordable, usable and responsive finance than is presently the case. IWF targets formally registered, 60% women owned and/or managed enterprises that have been existing and operating for two or more years with a loan range of R30 000 - R2 million.

• Fund is managed by IDC on behalf of the dti, though a development fund manager

• IWF assists with business support services to enhance the success of the business

• The fund pursues deals involving start up funding, business expansion, business rehabilitations , franchise and bridging finance

PROGRAMMES

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BAVUMILE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

• The Bavumile project is a women’s empowerment initiative aimed at identifying talent in clothing and textile and arts and crafts sectors among women. It is a formal training programme to develop their expertise in production of marketable goods and creation of formal enterprises in the creative industry

• With the emphasis on both skills development and empowering women economically, Bavumile seeks to:

– Recruit women who are currently involved in the creative, clothing and textile industries, with skills in embroidery, sewing, weaving and beading.

PROGRAMMES

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BAVUMILE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

• Provide specialist skills training and assist women to establish their own enterprises or cooperatives

• In partnership with Seda provide additional training in packaging, customer service, basic bookkeeping and registering a business

• Five day training sessions is provided to groups of women in municipalities who are then provided with sewing machinery to grow their businesses.

• A number of Women who have undergone this training run successfully businesses in a number of province and have been further assisted through other dti products, e.g Cooperatives incentive scheme

PROGRAMMES

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BAVUMILE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

• Provide specialist skills training and assist women to establish their own enterprises or cooperatives

• In partnership with Seda provide additional training in packaging, customer service, basic bookkeeping and registering a business

• Five day training sessions is provided to groups of women in municipalities who are then provided with sewing machinery to grow their businesses.

• A number of Women who have undergone this training run successfully businesses in a number of province and have been further assisted through other dti products, e.g Cooperatives incentive scheme

PROGRAMMES

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TECHNOLOGY FOR WOMEN IN BUSINESS

CONTINUED

• Technology for women in Business- was introduced to accelerate women’s empowerment and women owned enterprises development through the facilitation of technology- based business applications and systems and in the process, unlock constraints to enterprise innovation and growth, as well as Global competitiveness.

• Twib facilitate focused action by women entrepreneurs through the introduction of technology based solutions to their businesses

• Reward women who uses technology to grow their businesses through the TWIB awards in partnership with the SEDA Technology Programme

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PROGRAMMES

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TECHNOLOGY FOR WOMEN IN BUSINESS

CONTINUED

• The programme focuses on women entrepreneurs at all levels of business, from micro to macro enterprises and seeks to fast track their skills development to enable them to embrace appropriate technologies.

• 2011 Twib winner is :

– Telemedicine, a women owned company that provides healthcare practice supported by electronic processes and communication (e-Health) and mobile health (m-Health) services.

– Her company is also involved in conducting healthcare needs assessment of communities, provision of diagnostic and treatment services, technical support and personnel training for healthcare facilities, assessing the costs and benefits of different but appropriate ICT solutions, and the introduction of new and appropriate technologies.

PROGRAMMES

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TECHNOLOGY FOR WOMEN IN BUSINESS

CONTINUED

• The mandate of Twib extends to programmes that encourages girls to choose careers in engineering, science and technology bay facilitating access to educational information, career opportunities, academic and extramural learning programmes.

• Under the theme” A GIRL TODAY, A SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEUR TOMMORROW”. The angle taken by the dti in the campaign is to encourage the young girls to contribute to the country’s economic development and growth by becoming creators of wealth and job opportunities

PROGRAMMES

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TECHNOLOGY FOR WOMEN IN BUSINESS

CONTINUED

• The programme targets 10 best schools from the previously disadvantaged communities. 10 learners per school are selected to participate in the programme. A total of 100 learners per province participate. Each school comes up with the best entrepreneurial idea which is measured in term of Credibility & feasibility, Practicability, Originality and Durability. This programme is conducted annually in different Provinces

• the dti has entered into a partnership with the Ministry of Women, Children and People with Disabilities on a Tech-no-girl programme. This programme aims to provide girls with access to the world of work to enable them to take up scarce careers required by the economy- dti will place 100 girls for job shadowing for a period of three years .

PROGRAMMES

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SAWEN

• the dti identified and adopted SAWEN as a strategy for fast tracking support provided to women in addressing challenges faced when establishing, strengthening and sustaining their enterprises :

• SAWEN is a membership organization that has a mandate to represent and articulate the aspirations of all women entrepreneurs that operate within the South African SMME sector.

• Support services under the banner of SAWEN programme include

– Effective network forums– Training and Capacity building programmes– Pertinent business information and advice that leads to business

opportunities– Facilitating trade missions and exposure to global economy– Maintaining a reliable data base of South African women

entrepreneurs

PROGRAMMES

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BUSINESS WOMEN ASSOCIATION

• the dti has adopted a partnership model with a range of women association in its implementation of the women economic empowerment

• Partnership with Business women Association of South Africa, BWA is the largest and most prominent association of business and professional women in SA, with 10 full time branches across the country. This platform was created as a platform for the inspiration and empowerment of women in business through various initiatives to assist women in business.

• The partnership was for the research and publication of the South African women in Leadership Census 2011.This census focused on female representation at board and management level in Government and business in South Africa. In her foreword the dti Deputy Minister, Hon. Thabethe acknowledged that this partnership was critical in ensuring that our programmes are driven by research as well as constant monitoring of women participation in the key structures of the economy.

PARTNERSHIPS

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BUSINESS WOMEN ASSOCIATION CONTINUED

The International Federation of business and Professional Women ( BPW) is an international non profit organization that has a consultative status with the United Nations through the Economic and Social Council ( ECOSOC)

BPW aims to develop the professional, leadership and business potential of women through advocacy, mentoring, networking, skills building and economic empowerment programmes and projects.

•The dti has partnered and supported BPW on a number of programmes:

PARTNERSHIPS

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BUSINESS WOMEN ASSOCIATION CONTINUED

• UN Women’s Empowerment Principles, Launched by the dti Minister, Dr. Rob Davies. These are the UN Global compact that encourages engagement with the private sector and Governments to advance and empower women. This was attended by over 100 CEO of companies, who signed a pledge to advance women through a CEO statement of support.

• The women on Boards programme which is designed to discover, train and deploy female management talent by fostering and strengthening the participation of women in Boards. Through this programme a register of trained women will be established, where companies, including dti, can recruit women for directorships.

PARTNERSHIPS

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CHINA - SA HONGHE MODEL WOMEN OWNED FACTORIES

the dti entered into a partnership agreement with the Republic of China on the introduction of the Honghe sweater model which is a multi –billion clothing and textile factory involved in the production of knitted garments in China. The agreement is based on introducing the model to South Africa.

– Understanding the Honghe Model

– Learn from the Efficient and Effective Chinese Models

– Formalise the training, skills development and technology support measures for the Textiles & Clothing Sector

PARTNERSHIPS

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WOMEN OWNED FACTORIES CONTINUED

– Ensuring the participation and empowerment of Women

– Improving the geographical spread of the programs through strategically identified projects.

– Establish women owned factories, starting with a pilot at the East

London IDZ as an incubator, creating jobs for women in the identified Provinces.

PARTNERSHIPS

COOPERATIVES INCENTIVES SCHEME

• The Co-operative Incentive Scheme (CIS) is a 90:10 cost-sharing grant for registered primary co-operatives (a primary co-operative consists of five or more members)

• The objective of the CIS  is to improve the viability and competitiveness of co-operative enterprises by lowering their cost of doing business

• The incentive funds the following:

• business development services (e.g. feasibility studies; business, manufacturing and production systems; and production efficiency and improvement, etc);

• Technological improvements; Machinery, equipment and tools; • Commercial vehicles; Infrastructure linked to the project (e.g. 3-phase electricity;

boreholes, etc.); and Working capital.

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COOPERATIVES INCENTIVES SCHEME

• Since 2005, more than 300 women have received support from the cooperatives incentives scheme

• Most of the applicants were from Limpopo, Gauteng, Kwazulu -Natal and Eastern Cape.

• The support was spread across all the provinces

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ACCESS TO MARKETS FOR WOMEN

• The Export Marketing and Investment Assistance (EMIA) scheme develops export markets for South African products and services and to recruit new foreign direct investment into the country.

• Its objectives is to provide marketing assistance to develop new export markets and grow existing export markets

• Assist with the identification of new export markets through market research• The EMIA programme provides the following benefits to enterprises:

– Individual Exhibition Participation– Primary Market Research & Foreign Direct Investment– Individual Inward Missions:

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ACCESS TO MARKETS FOR WOMEN

• The dti continues to provide market access support to women through various trade missions

• In 2011/12 missions took place amongst others in India, Russia, Brazil and Zimbabwe and women owned enterprises participated.

• The India International Trade Fair supported 12 women in total

• Between April 2011 and September 2011, 132 women enterprises were supported through the EMIA scheme. Most of the women were from Gauteng, KZN, and WC.

• The support was spread across provinces.27

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RESTRUCTURED WOMEN EMPOWERMENT MODEL:

A GOVERNMENT RESPONSE

• Leveraging the capital expenditure programme and broader government procurement to stimulate demand and support the local manufacturing base- Initiating women owned factories in line with the 10 products and IPAP Sectors.

• Improving competitiveness of local industries by intensifying awareness campaigns on incentive schemes that the department currently offers.

• Addressing growing global protectionism through active participation in multilateral and bilateral trade negotiations.

• Engendering the Trade Agreements.

RESPONSES

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GOING FORWARD & CONCLUSIONS

• Enhanced cooperation with key stakeholders including women

associations to enhance joint implementation and outreach .

• Intensify our research in the area of women enterprises/ gender equality to gain better understating of the opportunities and the challenges presented.

• Introducing Women into higher value add production in the 10 Set Aside Products and those of IPAP 11.

FORWARD LOOKING

PROGRESS IN IMPLEMENTATION OF EE TARGETS: 2008 TO 2011

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Population Group

Target 2008 status (%)

2010 status (%) 2011 status (%) Variance in 2011(Target– Yr 2011)

Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female

African 39.6 34.5 29.4 39.8 32.3 42.3 34 43.8 -5.6 9.3

Asian 1.8 1.1 2.6 3.8 2.2 3.2 2.1 2.8 0.3 1.7

Coloured 5.5 4.7 2.2 2.6 2.7 2.7 1.8 2.7 -3.7 -2

White 7.3 5.7 7.9 11.5 5.4 9.5 4.9 7.9 -2.4 2.2

SOURCE: OWN CALCULATIONS BASED ON: EE PROGRESS REPORT 2008 TO 2010, THE DTI TOTAL ESTABLISHMENT - JUNE 2011

Population Group

Target(%)

2008 status (%)

2010 status (%)

2011 status (%)

Variance in 2011

(Target – Yr 2011)

Male Female

Male Female

Male Female Male Female Male Female

African 39.6 34.5 29.4 39.8 32.3 42.3 34 43.8 -5.6 9.3

Asian 1.8 1.1 2.6 3.8 2.2 3.2 2.1 2.8 0.3 1.7

Coloured 5.5 4.7 2.2 2.6 2.7 2.7 1.8 2.7 -3.7 -2

White 7.3 5.7 7.9 11.5 5.4 9.5 4.9 7.9 -2.4 2.2

Blacks in SMS 70 76 76.6 77.2 7.2

Women in SMS 50 39 42 41.5 -8.5

People with disability 2 1.2 2.2 2.0 0

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THANK YOU

SIYABONGA !!!!