INTRODUCTION
Background
- FIETA is a value chain based SETA
- Often referred to as Forestry SETA
- Forestry is only one of the four chambers
· Forestry
· Furniture
· Pulp & Paper
· Wood Products
- Many Enterprises have vertically integrated operations
INTRODUCTION
|
|
Black |
Coloured |
Indian |
White |
Total |
|
Female |
3 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
7 |
|
% |
25 |
16.7 |
8.3 |
8.3 |
58.3 |
|
Male |
3 |
|
|
2 |
5 |
|
% |
25 |
|
|
16.7 |
41.7 |
|
Total |
6 |
2 |
1 |
3 |
12 |
|
% |
50 |
16.7 |
8.3 |
25 |
|
FIETA Organisational Structure
FlETA BOARD Chamber Committees
CEO
Derek Weston
Financial Administration
Rosetta Xaba
HOD ETQA
Alwyn Jackson
Leanership Manager
Monika Erasmus
Accreditation Manager
Michelle Vijoen
Project Manager
Jabu Gezane (Tender / Projects)
NSF Project Administrator
Clarissa Lyle
Skills Planning Manager
Simangaliso Mkwanazi
SKILLS PLANNING
COMPLETED WORKPLACE SKILLS TRAINING
|
2001 -2004 |
African |
Coloured |
Asian |
White |
TOTAL |
|
MALE |
16876 |
1612 |
918 |
8312 |
27718 |
|
FEMALE |
6596 |
318 |
618 |
4716 |
12248 |
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|
23472 |
1930 |
1536 |
13028 |
39966 |
(Excludes Discretionary grants)
Discretionary training excluding training reported in Workplace Skills Plans
Beneficiaries of Enterprises employing 1-49 employees
|
Gender |
African |
Coloured |
Asian |
White |
TOTAL |
|
Male |
1041 |
0 |
0 |
9 |
1050 |
|
Female |
375 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
377 |
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|
1416 |
0 |
0 |
11 |
1427 |
Discretionary training excluding training reported in Workplace Skills Plans
Beneficiaries of Enterprises employing +150 employees
|
Gender |
African |
Coloured |
Asian |
White |
TOTAL |
|
Male |
1965 |
772 |
180 |
2830 |
5747 |
|
Female |
672 |
65 |
17 |
414 |
1168 |
|
|
2637 |
837 |
197 |
3244 |
6915 |
Completed Training from Implementation Reports, Sector Project and Discretionary Grants
|
Gender |
African |
Coloured |
Asian |
White |
TOTAL |
|
Male |
19882 |
2384 |
1098 |
11151 |
34515 |
|
Female |
7643 |
383 |
635 |
5132 |
13793 |
|
|
27525 |
2767 |
1733 |
16283 |
48308 |
Workplace Skills Plan Participation (Submissions 2004 - 2005)
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Chamber |
0-49 |
50-149 |
+150 |
TOTAL |
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PuIp&Paper |
0 |
3 |
7 |
10 |
|
Wood Products |
10 |
11 |
21 |
42 |
|
Furniture |
32 |
21 |
17 |
70 |
|
Forestry |
16 |
26 |
35 |
77 |
|
|
58 |
61 |
80 |
199 |
PROJECTS
TOTAL 48
264 SMME impacted by these projects Over 2000 employees have been trained
QUALITY ASSURANCE
FIETA is accredited with SAQA as an ETQA
- Compliance Audit by SAQA in March 2004
There were 9 areas that FIETA needs to give attention to:
1. Registration of Standards & Qualifications on the NQF for the Forestry sub-sector
- This is a SAQA / NSB function
- FIETA has engaged SAQA & SGB's on delivery
- 6 Learnerships have now been registered
2. Capacity to perform designated functions
- SETA's may spend only 10% of income on administration
- 2 additional staff members have been appointed in the ETQA Department
- Fl ETA will continue to make use of external experts
3. Quality Management System
- FIETA does have a comprehensive quality management system place
Audit identified certain gaps
Quality Management System
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COMPLIANCE ACHIEVED
Accreditation requirements for providers
No adequate guidelines for assessment of providers to
5. Process for de-accreditation of providers
- Process not clearly defined
- Accreditation is against registered qualifications
- Providers have had accreditation visits
- Monitoring is scheduled on a bi-annual basis
- No providers have reached schedule monitoring date
- Database system in place
- Database not yet fully populated and could not be tested
SUCCESSES
- Impassioned and commitment of ETQA manager and team
- Excellent relations with providers
- Innovative problem solving
- Innovation and ingenuity in identifying projects such as SHINTSHA Furniture Project
- Level of support for providers
- Accreditation workshops for potential providers held nationwide
- Well defined appeals policies for providers assessors and learners
LEARNRESHIPS
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% |
African |
Coloured |
Asian |
White |
TOTAL |
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Female >30 |
7.86 |
1.12 |
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|
8.98 |
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Female <30 |
11.07 |
0.96 |
0.32 |
0.16 |
12.51 |
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Male >30 |
30.49 |
6.58 |
|
0.48 |
37.55 |
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Male<30 |
31.13 |
8.50 |
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1.44 |
41.06 |
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Female |
18.9 |
2.08 |
|
0.16 |
21.14 |
|
Male |
61.63 |
15.08 |
0.32 |
1.76 |
78.79 |
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LEARNERSHIPS
- Furniture 12
- Lumber Milling 16
- Pulp & Paper 1
8 Pulp & Paper in process
8 Forestry in process
8 Wood Products in process
FINANCE OVERVIEW
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2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
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PER YEAR |
R’000 |
R’000 |
R’000 |
R’000 |
|
Project expenses paid |
_ |
1452 |
2 383 |
11 431 |
|
Adjusted income (#) |
17 560 |
37 221 |
33 644 |
42 910 |
|
lncome % variance |
_ |
112% |
-10% |
28% |
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Administration costs |
2 166 |
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|
|
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Admin cost % variance |
_ |
79% |
28% |
7% |
|
Administration surplus - Rand |
1 760 |
|
|
|
|
Administration surplus |
39% |
1% |
5% |
1% |
# Income adjusted for changes in estimates in respect of previous years
Surplus funds- Projects
|
|
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
|
CUMULATIVE |
R’000 |
R’000 |
R’000 |
R’000 |
|
Surplus funds available (A) |
6 757 |
18 541 |
32 472 |
57 505 |
|
Surplus funds allocated (B) |
- |
18 541 |
19 787 |
37 187 |
|
(B) as % of (A) |
- |
100% |
61% |
65% |
|
Surplus funds spent (C) |
- |
1 452 |
3 835 |
15 266 |
|
(C )as % of (B) |
- |
8% |
19% |
41% |
Mandatory grants
|
|
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004(#) |
|
PER SCHEME YEAR |
R’000 |
R’000 |
R’000 |
R’000 |
|
Mandatory grants |
789 |
20 430 |
21 792 |
8 640 |
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Pay-out % |
|
70.1% |
62.4% |
22.2% |
#2004 Implementation grants approval in process
GOVERNANCE
· FIETA has a board representative of all stakeholder groups in terms of the Skills Development Act
· Each chamber has a chamber committee representative of the relevant stakeholder groups
· The Board meets a minimum of 4 times a year
· The Executive committee of the board meets 4 times a year
· The Executive committee serves as a finance committee
· Each chamber committee meets 5 times a year
A properly constituted audit committee meets a minimum of 4 times a year
· FIETA meets all the requirements of reporting to the Department of Labour including quarterly monitoring reports
FIETA meets all the requirements of reporting to the Department of Labour including quarterly monitoring reports
· All required policies are in place including financial policies & procedures, an audit charter, a fraud prevention policy, human resource policy
· No regional offices have been established. The board and all committee's provide regional representation.
· Swift and decisive action taken by the Executive Committee FIETA, early in 2001, when collusion between the CEO and the CFO resulted in FIETA being defrauded of R2.8million, resulted in the only criminal conviction of offenders in any SETA to date and the recovery by the Assets Forfeiture Unit of RI .8million.
· The perpetrators were each sentenced to 20 years imprisonment.
NSDS
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NSDS Indicators at March 2005 |
SETA Target |
Achieved |
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70% at least at NQF level 1 |
56% |
14570 are either in the system or have completed. All chambers have ABET projects using unclaimed grants Survey results due 18 August Indicating profile of current employees |
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15% Workers on Structured Learning Programmes and 50% completed programmes successfully |
17.4% |
Total = 39966 32% |
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Average of 20 Enterprises & 5 Gov. Depart. committed to Investors of people standard |
20 Enterprises committed to Investors of People Standard FIETA to have achieved this standard. |
Assessed in September Companies currently being recruited. No Gov. Departments are aligned with FIETA. |
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75% Enterprises > 150 workers receiving skills development grants and contributions towards productivity and employer/employee benefits measured |
75% |
Currently 49% Strategy in place to achieve target |
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40% of enterprises with between 50 and 150 workers receiving skills development grants and contribution towards productivity & Employer/employee benefits measured |
40% |
Currently 25% Strategy in place to achieve target |
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Learnerships available in every sector |
Learnerships within each sub- sector |
Learnerships in 3 sub-sectors Learnership application 4th sub-sector |
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20% of new and existing registered small businesses to be supporting skills devlop. Initiatives and the impact of such support to be measured |
20% |
2% are claiming grants 14% have benefited from direct intervention. |
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100% of the NSF apportionment is spent on viable development projects |
100% |
All performance objects of the NSF project will be achieved. There may be operational savings. |
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Impact of the NSF is measured by project type and duration including details of placement rates, which shall be at least 70% |
70% |
This evaluation is built into the NSF project. |
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A minimum of 80 000 people under the age of 30 have entered learnerships |
3200 learnership agreement |
1811 Learnerships agreements signed. |
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A minimum of 50% of those who have completed learnerships are within 6 months of completion, employed, in full-time study or further training or are in social development programmes |
50% |
As candidates complete leamerhsips, they will be placed. |
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SUCCESSES
· FIETA considered a marginal SETA at establishment but has subsequently proved to be economically viable.
Swift and decisive action taken by the Executive Committee of FIETA when fraud perpetrated.
· Meeting the criteria of the SAQA ETQA Audit with a limited number of qualifications.
Exceeded commitment of learnerships for GDS.
ALL CHAMBERS
· Accredited providers
- 27 providers
- 7 providers
- 15 providers
· Provisional Programme Approval
- 6 providers
· In process of applying for Accreditation
- 21 providers
Providers -Geographic
· Mpumalanga
- Graskop, Sabie, Witrivier, Piet Retief
Gauteng
- Midrand, Springs, Benoni
· North West
- Brits, Shoshanguve, Temba
KZN
- Estcourt, Pietermartizburg, Merrivale
· Free State
- Kroonstad, Welkom,Bethlehem,
· Limpopo
- Tzaneen
· W. Cape
- Cape Town, George, Knysna
· E.Cape
- Port Elizabeth
· N.Cape
- Kimberley
- Tzaneen
CHALLENGES
· Employers operating in rural areas - 80% of employees illiterate
· Slow delivery of qualification and unit standards
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