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Development of a Social Economy Policy in South Africa - Final evaluation

eval_number:

2774

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/2774

location:

country:

South Africa

region:

Africa

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eval_title:

Development of a Social Economy Policy in South Africa - Final evaluation

recommendations:

date:

2022-07-22 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Constituents

category:

Government - capacity building

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comments:

During the set up of the fund, the project team was consulted regularly and lessons learned were shared to inform the focus of the fund, including the applied research component

action_plan:

The government of South Africa has established the Social Employment Fund (SEP) in 2021 as part of the Presidential Stimulus package to support employment opportunities and especially support community-based organisations to harness the capabilities of the country in the social and solidarity economy. The fund is managed by dtic and has an applied research component to learn from the project being funded. The SEP is an initiative from the Office of the President, and is an innovative large scale public employment programme, which is centred around the entrepreneurship for the common good, and anchored in the social and solidarity economy.

management_response:

Partially Completed

progress:

Partially achieved

admin_units:

DWT/CO-Pretoria

title:

The Government should establish and fund fully fledged research undertakings under dtic to coordinate and conduct more research on social and solidarity economy: There is need for more government initiated and driven research with key sector players and academia to build on body of knowledge so that policy implementation is informed by evidence-based information and statistics etc.

project_symbols:

ZAF/16/01/FLA

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/15443

information_source:

Country Office

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