Report of the Portfolio Committee on Women, Children, Youth and People
with Disabilities on the Strategic Plan of the National Youth Development
Agency for the year 2011-14, dated 15 June 2011
The Portfolio Committee on Women,
Children, Youth and People with Disabilities , having considered the strategic
plan of the National Youth Development Agency, reports as follows:
1. Introduction
The strategic plan of the National Youth
Development Agency (NYDA) was tabled on the 09 March 2011 and referred to the
Portfolio Committee on Women, Children, Youth and People with Disabilities on
the 01 June 2011 for consideration and report. The Committee engaged with the National
Youth Development Agency on this matter on the 23 March 2011.
2. Briefing by the NYDA on the Strategic Plan for 2011 - 14
The Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) of the NYDA presented the strategic plan of the NYDA. He
reported that the organisation had identified the following categories of young
people:
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Category 1 was identified as youth who were
unskilled and unemployed. These were identified as young people who may have
passed matric or dropped out of school but with no vocational skills.
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Category 2 was identified as youth who
were skilled and unemployed, employed but unskilled and those in skills
programmes.
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Category 3 was identified as skilled
and employed and those in self employment.
3. NYDA Key Performance Areas and Strategic Objectives
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KEY PERFORMANCE AREA |
DEFINITION |
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1. National
Youth Service and Social Cohesion |
Promote youth
social dialogue and create opportunities for young people to serve their
communities. |
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Objectives: |
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To promote opportunities for young
people to serve their communities. -
To create a platform for young people
to participate in and benefit from democratic processes. -
To develop capacity building
materials for youth development practitioners. -
To create and support social
networks. -
To benefit young people. |
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2. Economic
participation |
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To enhance the participation of young
people in the economy through targeted and integrated programmes. |
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Objectives: |
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To provide business support to young
people. -
To provide financing support to young
entrepreneurs. -
To provide employment opportunities
to young people -
To design and implement specific
interventions for women and persons with disabilities in rural areas. |
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3. Policy,
research and development |
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Developing a body of knowledge and
best practice in the youth development sector to inform and influence policy
development, planning and implementation. |
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Objectives: |
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To develop IYDS and guidelines for
the implementation of youth development programmes. -
To identify annual national youth
development priorities -
To promote, lobby and advocate for a
uniform approach by all sectors on matters relating to youth development. -
To conduct research and evaluations -
To inform policy and programmes -
To provide inputs on policies and
legislation by government and other relevant structures. |
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4. Training
and development |
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To promote, facilitate and provide
training and development opportunities to young people to enhance their socio
– economic well being. |
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Objectives: |
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To facilitate education opportunities
in order to improve access to quality education. -
To facilitate and implement
technical, entrepreneurship and life skills training programmes. -
To provide and facilitate capacity
building of youth development practitioners. -
To facilitate youth development work
as a recognised profession. |
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5. Youth
Advisory and Information Services |
- To ensure access for youth to information about various
interventions aimed at improving the living condition of young people
including information and career guidance service to young people. |
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Objectives: |
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To provide career guidance services -
To provide access to information
regarding products and services of the NYDA and referrals to other agencies. |
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6. National
Youth Fund |
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To establish a mechanism to enable the NYDA to raise funds for purposes of
advancing and implementing programmes aimed at improving the livelihoods of
the youth. |
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Objectives: |
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To plan and set up the National Youth
Fund -
To mobilise and leverage financial
assistance to small, micro, medium enterprises and cooperatives owned by
youth. |
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7. Governance |
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To ensure that NYDA operations comply with applicable legislation and
regulations governing a schedule 3A institution. |
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Objectives: |
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To ensure compliance with all
applicable statutes and policies -
To implement systems and processes to
increase the recoverability of defaulting loans. |
4. Summary of NYDA’s key priorities for 2011 – 2014
The NYDA
identified national youth service, economic participation and social cohesion,
education, training and skills development, youth advisory and information
services and national youth fund as the key priorities for 2012 – 2014.
4.1 National Youth Service (NYS) and Social Cohesion
4.2 Economic participation
4.3 Education,
training and skills development
The National
Youth Development Agency would enrol 8,000 youth to rewrite grade 12 exams
through its matric rewrite programme. The organisation would provide 293,900
youth with various skills covering critical areas such as business management,
life and job preparedness skills.
4.4 Youth Advisory and Information Service
NYDA would provide
over 1, 6 million with group career guidance.
4.5 National Youth Fund
The
organisation would work in partnership with other stakeholders to raise over
R480 million which would go into the National Youth Fund.
5. NYDA key performance areas, indicators and targets for 2011/12
– 2013/14
5.1 Key deliverables for Key Performance Area 1: National Youth
Service and Social Cohesion
(a) Goal
The goal of the
programme is to promote youth social dialogue and create opportunities for
young people to serve their communities.
(b) Objective 1
The objective
is to promote opportunities for young people to serve their communities. The NYDA intends to reach 10 000 youth to
serve their communities through NYDA funded projects for 2011/12, 48 400 for
2012/13 and 53 240 for 2013/14. The organisation also intends to reach 40 000 youth
for 2011/12, 55 000 for 2012/13 and 60 000 for 2013/14 to serve their communities
through National Youth Service Unit registered projects.
(c) Objective 2
The objective is
to create a platform for young people to participate in and benefit from
democratic processes. The organisation intends to ensure that 8 local
municipalities in 2011/12, 30 local municipalities in 2012/13, and 30 local
municipalities in 2013/14 are assisted to establish youth councils. Fifteen
local municipalities in 2011/12, 30 local municipalities in 2012/13 and 2013/14
would be mobilised to participate in elections. Four dialogue sessions per year
would be hosted for the period 2011-2014 with young people. For 2011-2014, 500
young women per year would be mobilised for the celebration of Women’s Month
and towards 16 Days of Activism campaign. 10 000 youth per year would
participate in Youth month celebrations.
(d) Objective 3
The objective
is to develop capacity building materials for youth development
practitioners. The organisation would ensure
that three programme support materials per year would be developed for the
period 2011-2014. The organisation would also develop and implement a
curriculum for youth development training for the period 2011 – 2014.
(e) Objective 4
The objective
is to create and support social networks to benefit young people. The organisation
would ensure 300 volunteer mentors participate in mentorship programmes for
2011-12, 400 volunteers for 2012-2013 and 500 volunteer mentors in 2013/14. The
organisation will provide opportunities for 400 young people to participate in
the buy youth campaign for 2011/12, 500 young people for 2012/13 and 600 for
2013/14 on the same campaign.
5.2 Key deliverable for Key Performance Area 2: Economic
Participation
(a) Goal
The goal is to
enhance the participation of young people in the economy through targeted and
integrated programmes.
(b) Objective 1
The objective
is to provide support to young people. The organisation would ensure that 3 500
young people would be supported with Business Consultancy Vouchers, business
opportunities services and mentorship in 2011/12, 11 000 in 2012/13 and 12 100
in 2013/14. NYDA would ensure that 2 500 new companies owned by young people would
be registered with CIPRO through business support voucher issuance in 2011/12,
5500 in 2012/13 and 6050 in 2013/14. 50 young entrepreneurs would be assisted
to access funding and business opportunities through voucher programmes,
business support programmes and mentorship in 2011/12, 110 in 2012/13 and 121
in 2013/14. The organisation would ensure that R50 million would be accessed by
voucher recipient, Business Opportunities Support Programme and mentorship in
2011/12, R110 million in 2012/13 and R121 million in 2013/14. R100 million for
2011/12 and 2012/13 would be the value of business opportunities sourced for
BOSS deals, voucher support and mentorship per year and R121 million would be
committed for 2013/14 on the same programme.
(c) Objective 2
The objective
is to provide financing support to young entrepreneurs. The organisation would
ensure that 6 enterprises are financed for the 2011/12 financial year, 10
enterprises for financial year 2012/13 and 15 enterprises for 2013/14. 300
beneficiaries would be supported through social enterprise financing for the 2011/12
financial year, 500 beneficiaries for 2012/13 and 750 beneficiaries for
2013/14. NYDA will provide R10 million finance to social enterprises for
financial year 2011/12, R8 million for 2012/13 and R12 million for 2013/14. The
organisation would also provide 9 000 loans to micro enterprises for financial
year 2011/12, 38 375 loans for 2012/13 and 55 625 for 2013/14. R16, 6 million would
be issued to youth owned micro enterprises for financial year 2011/12, R76
million for 2012/13 and R118 million for 201/14. NYDA would provide 40 loans to
SMEs for financial year 2011/12, 193 loans for 2012/13 and 212 loans for
2013/14. The organisation would issue R40 million loans to youth owned small
and medium enterprises for financial year 2011/12, R96 800 million for 2012/13
and R106 480 million for financial year 2013/14.
(d) Objective 3
The objective
is to provide employment opportunities for young people. The organisation will
create 2000 jobs through Business Consultancy Vouchers, business support
services and mentorship programmes for financial year 2011/12, 11 000 jobs for
financial year 2012/13 and 12 100 jobs for 2013/14. 430 jobs would be created
through social enterprises financing for 2011/12, 3 600 jobs for 2012/13 and 5
040 for 2013/14. 280 jobs would be created through SMEs financing for 2011/12,
2 420 jobs for 2012/13 and 2662 jobs for 2013/14. The organisation would create
9000 jobs through Micro finance lending in 2011/12, 13 337 jobs in 2012/13 and
17 380 jobs in 2013/14. 1 200 jobs would be facilitated through placements in
job opportunities for financial year 2011/12, 3 600 jobs placements in 2012/13
and 5 040 jobs placements in 2013/14.
(d) Objective 4
The objective
is to design and implement specific interventions for women, persons with
disabilities and youth in rural areas. The NYDA would undertake 16 interventions
to ensure that young women, youth with disabilities and in rural areas
participated in economic projects for financial year 2011/12, 20 interventions
in 2012/13 and 30 interventions in 2013/14. The organisation would also commit
R3, 6 million for economic participation projects provided to young women,
youth with disabilities and youth in rural areas for financial year 2011/12, R2
million for 2012/13 and R3 million for 2013/14.
5.3 Key Deliverables for Key Performance Area 3: Policy Research and
Development
(a) Goal
The goal is to
develop a body of knowledge and best practice in the youth development sector
to inform and influence policy development, planning and implementation.
(b) Objective 1
The objective
is to develop the Integrated Youth Development Strategy (IYDS) and guidelines
for the implementation of youth development programmes. The organisation would
ensure that the IYDS is adopted by the NYDA Board and Cabinet in 2011/12. It would
also evaluate the protocol of the IYDS in 2011/12 and produce one evaluation
report in 2013/14.
(c) Objective 2
The objective
is to identify annual national youth development priorities. The organisation would
submit a list of national youth development priorities to the Office of the
President.
(d) Objective 3
The objective
is to promote, lobby and advocate for a uniform approach by all sectors on
matters relating to youth development. The organisation would ensure that it had
established 15 partnership with governments, civil society and private sector in
2011/12 and 2012/13 per year and 25 partnerships in 2013/14. The organisation would
lobby 5 departments to establish Youth Directorates in 2011/12 and 2012/13 per
year and 6 Youth Directorates in 2013/14.
(e) Objective 4
The objective
is to conduct research and evaluate policy and programme interventions. The
organisation would submit the final draft status of youth report to the Office
of the President in 2011/12, the status of youth report in 2012/13 and submit
the recommendations implemented report in 2013/14. By 2011/12, the organisation
intended to produce 6 research project reports, 15 research reports in 2012/13
and 2013/14. The organisation would also produce 24 publications on youth
development in 2011/12 and 15 publications in 2012/13 and 2013/14 per year.
(f) Objective 5
The objective
is to provide inputs on policies and legislation by government and other
relevant structures. The organisation would submit 6 submissions of written
youth development related policies and legislation to relevant Departments in
2011/12 and 7 submissions in 2012/13 and 2013/14 per year. NYDA will also
attend 10 Portfolio Committee meetings in 201/12, 2012/13 and 2013/14 per year.
5.4 Key Deliverables for Key Performance Area 4: Training and
Development
(a) Goal
The goal is to
promote, facilitate and provide training and development opportunities to young
people to enhance their socio-economic wellbeing.
(b) Objective 1
The objective
is to facilitate education opportunities in order to improve access to quality
education. The organisation would enrol 2000 young people to rewrite Grade 12
exams in 2011/12 and 6000 young people in 2012/13. The organisation would also
provide 5 000 young people with entrepreneurship and business management skills
in 2011/12, 35 000 in 2012/13 and 50 000 in 2013/14.
(c) Objective 2
The objective
is to facilitate and implement technical, entrepreneurship and life skills
training programmes. 500 youth would be
provided with technical skills training in 2011/12, 1 650 in 2012/13 and 2750
in 2013/14. 10 000 young people would be provided with job preparedness
training in 2011/12, 27 000 in 2012/13 and 37 800 in 2013/14. The organisation
would provide 2000 young people with life skills training in 2011/12, 27 000
youth in 2012/13 and 37 800 in 2013/14. NYDA would also enrol 200 youth in
(d) Objective 3
The objective
is to provide and facilitate capacity building of youth development
practitioners. The organisation would train 13 facilitators in life skills in
2011/12, 60 facilitators in 2012/13 and 84 facilitators in 2013/14 and in job
preparedness and youth practitioners in career guidance. The organisation would also launch the Centre
for Youth Development Practice.
(e) Objective 4
The objective
is to facilitate youth development work as a recognised profession. The NYDA would
develop and approve 2 unit standards towards Youth Work Qualification in
2011/12 and 2012/13 financial years and full unit standards in 2013/14. The
organisation would ensure that 10 youth practitioners obtain credits for Youth
Work Qualification in 2011/12, 15 youth practitioners in 2012/13 and 20 youth
practitioners in 2013/14.
5.5 Key Deliverables for Key Performance Area 5: Youth Advisory and Information Services
(a) Goal
The goal is to
ensure for youth information (rephrase sentence???) about various interventions
aimed at improving the living conditions of young people including information
and career guidance to young people.
(b) Objective 1
The objective
is to provide career guidance services. 2, 600 would be provided with
individual career guidance information for the financial year 2011/12, 82 800
for 2012/2013 and 115 920 for 2013/14. The estimated number of young people who
would be provided with group career guidance information was 397 000 for
financial year 2011/12, 540 000 for 2012/13
and 756 000 for 2013/14.
(c) Objective 2
The objective
is to provide access to information regarding products and services of the NYDA
and referrals to other agencies. The organisation would ensure 500 000 young
people received information and referrals from the NYDA access point. For
2011/12, 1 000 000 for 2012/13 and 1100 000 for 2013/2014. 140 000 interactions
with young people would be made through the NYDA call centre for 2011/2012, 155
000 for 2012/2013 and 170 000 for 2013/2014. The NYDA would publish 20
publication beneficiaries stories for 2011/12, 2012/13 and 2013/2014 per year.
5.6 Key Deliverable for Key Performance Area 6: National Youth Fund
(a) Goal
The goal is to
establish mechanisms to enable the NYDA to raise funds for purposes of
advancing and implementing programmes aimed at improving the livelihoods of the
youth.
(b) Objective 1
The objective
is to plan and set up the National Youth Fund. The framework for financial
assistance and policies and procedures to manage the Fund should be approved by
the NYDA Board in 2011/12.
(c) Objective 2
The objective
is to mobilise and leverage financial assistance to small, micro and medium
enterprise and cooperatives owned by youth. The organisation would ensure that
R30 million would be raised from the private sector for the National Youth Fund
in 2011/12, R60 million in 2012/2013 and R70 million in 2013/14. The
organisation would ensure that R60 million would be raised through partnership
for the National Youth Fund in 2011/12, R120 million in 2012/13 and R140
million in 2013/14.
(d) Objective 3
The objective
is to provide financial support to projects initiated by youth. R20 million would
be invested in youth initiated projects in 2011/12, R30 million in 2012/13 and
R40 million in 2013/14.
5.7 Key Deliverable for Key Performance Area 7: Governance
(a) Goal
The goal is to
ensure that NYDA operations comply with applicable legislation and regulations
governing schedule 3A institutions.
(b) Objective 1
The objective
is to ensure compliance with all applicable statutes and policies. The
organisation would ensure that for 2011-2014, adequate strategic risk register
and adequate controls opinion based on internal audit will be established.
(c) Objective 2
6. Budget Allocation
The National
Youth Development Agency had been allocated R1 218 428 billion for the financial
year 2011 – 14. R425 676 million had
been allocated for the financial year 2011/12. The budget would be used for
operational costs excluding employee costs, capital expenditure, loans and
investment and core programme direct funding intervention. R442 961 million would
be used for financial year 2012/13 and R462 405 for financial year 2012/13 on
the same programmes.
7. Observations
Having met with the NYDA to scrutinize their strategic plan,
and budget, the Committee made the following observations:
1.
The Committee observed that the NYDA’s
budget averaged between R380 and R420 million per year over the next three
years and was concerned about how the NYDA intended to meet its increased
targets, e.g. KPA 2: economic participation: number of loans in year 1 = 9000,
year 2 = 38 375, value of loans in year 1 = R40 million, year 2 = R96, 8
million.
2.
The Committee was concerned that more
than 50% of the budget was earmarked for compensation of employees and
questioned whether that allocation should not be on funding programmes instead.
3.
The Committee noted that the Key Performance
Areas had changed and were different to that stipulated in the Annual Report
for 2009/10.
4.
The Committee noted that the NYDA was
in partnership with other organisations in terms of programmes offered and was
concerned as to the type of partnership entered into.
5.
The Committee reiterated its concern
regarding the matric rewrite programmes. The Committee queried as to which Provinces
were covered with regards to 8000 matriculants in the rewrite programme. In
addition, the NYDA was questioned whether it had a relationship with the
Department of Education in terms of the matric rewrite programme.
6.
The Committee observed that the NYDA
offered loans to provide business support to young people and was concerned as
to whether the NYDA charged interest on loans and where the money went to.
7.
The Committee noted that the NYDA would
create 89 089 jobs and was concerned as to how the NYDA would monitor and
evaluate that target.
8.
The Committee noted that the NYDA would
facilitate and implement technical, entrepreneurship and life skills training
programmes to young people and raised the issue of artisan training for young
people.
9.
The Committee noted that the NYDA’s
policies overlapped with other Government Departments’ policies and was
concerned as to whether the NYDA was in partnership with other Government
Departments in implementing its programmes.
10.
The Committee questioned whether the
NYDA was not in fact duplicating programmes currently rendered by other
Departments.
11.
The Committee was unclear as to who the
NYDA had signed performance agreements with.
12.
The Committee observed that 155 000
young people would be involved in the National Youth Service project. However,
the Committee was unclear as to what the role of the NYDA was in that regard
and specifically whether it would be monitored and evaluated.
13.
The Committee noted with concern that
the Integrated Youth Development Strategy (IYDS) would take a year to be approved
by the NYDA Board and Cabinet. That was seen as unacceptable.
14.
The NYDA’s budget allocation to people
with disabilities and ensuring access of youth from rural areas to schools with
regards to transport was a concern.
15.
The Committee was unclear as to what
criteria were used to attain the various targets articulated by the NYDA in
terms of geographical location within provinces and gender.
8. Recommendations
Having
considered the budget and strategic plan of the NYDA, the Committee recommends
as follows:
1.
The NYDA must ensure greater focus and
commitment to youth with disabilities and youth living in rural areas to bring
to fruition government’s objectives in relation to these target groups.
2.
The NYDA must ensure that its proposed
programmes must speak to all aspects of its mandate and that requisite
budgetary allocations are made for the implementation of these programmes.
3.
The NYDA needs to provide detail with
regard to who they have established partnerships with, as well as the nature of
these partnerships.
4.
In terms of the Matric re-write
programme, the NYDA must provide the Committee with more clarity on the type of
partnership entered into with the Department of Basic Education.
5.
The NYDA must provide the Committee
with disaggregated data of the beneficiaries of its programmes, i.e. in terms
of province, gender, age, etc.
6.
In terms of the dispensing of loans for
SMME’s, the Committee requests that more detail is provided regarding the
sustainability of proposed business ventures and loan repayments hereto.
7.
The NYDA must promote youth skills
development through artisan training.
8.
The NYDA must provide the Committee with
the performance agreements they have entered into.
9.
The NYDA must expedite the finalisation
and implementation of the Integrated Youth Development Strategy.
10.
The NYDA must guard against duplicating
programmes already being implemented in other government departments.
11.
The NYDA must guard against
over-expenditure on employee compensation which could impact on the poor
implementation of programmes resulting in inefficient service delivery.
9. Conclusion
Having deliberated on the strategic plan and budget of the NYDA,
the Committee thanked the NYDA for the presentation and members for interacting
with the youth.
Report to be considered.