EPWP

Objective

To manage the implementation of programmes and strategies that lead to the development and empowerment of communities and contractors. This includes the provincial management and co-ordination of the Expanded Public Works Programme
This programme includes the management and co-ordination expenditure on the Expanded Public Works Programme.

 

Budget Speech Entailing EPWP Projects

For the 2016/17 financial year, the province reported a total of sixteen thousand and thirty six (16036) work opportunities inclusive of the municipal and provincial spheres of  which  the Department of Roads and  Public Works  created  a  total  of  three thousand eight hundred and thirty one (3831). The annual target for the Northern Cape for 2017/18 is twenty eight thousand three hundred and seventy seven (28377) and the target for the department is nine thousand six hundred (9600) including women, youth and people living with disabilities.