Manufacturing, engineering and
related services SETA
(merSETA)
To assess the merSETA,
on their Strategic Plan 2015/16 – 2019/20 and
Annual Performance Plan 2017/18 against
Government Priorities and Industry Developments
Strategic Goals of the merSETA
Improved
responsiveness of
research to the
transformation and
transitional needs of
the sector
Increased functional
efficacy of good
governance and
deployment and
management of
resources
A skilled and capable
workforce for
manufacturing sector –
current, emerging and
future occupations and
skills
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Aligning the merSETA
interventions and budget
programmes to government
priorities and industry
developments
3
Strategic
Integrated
Projects (SIPS)
Oceans
Economy
New Growth
Path
Industrial Policy
Action Plan
National Development Plan
Small, Micro,
Cooperatives and
Informal Enterprise
Development
Human
Resource
Development
Strategy
- Workers - Employers - Youth -Women –
-PWD-
White Paper on
Post School
Education and
Training
Green Economy
Comprehensive
Rural
Development
Programme
National Skills
Development
Strategy
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NSDS III 2011/12 -2015/16 Targets
60000
50000
40000
30000
20000
Achievement
10000
Target
0
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NSDS III 2011/12 -2015/16 Targets
(continued)
4500
4000
3500
3000
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0
Target
Achievement
6
NSDS III 2011/12 – 2015/16 Income &
Expenditure and Committed Funds
2 500 000
2 000 000
1 500 000
1 000 000
500 000
-
Mandatory grant expenses R000's
Income R000's
Committed R000's
Discretionary grant & project expenses R000's
Discretionary grant reserves R000's
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NSDS III 2017/18 Planned Targets
Planned Budget for Learning Interventions: R953 229 000
7000
6125
6000
5775
5000
4000
4350
3870
4100
4000
3000
2135
2000
1500
1000
0
886
378
166
500
833
Target
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NSDS III 2017/18 Planned Targets
Planned Budget for Learning Interventions: R953 229 000
1600
1523
1500
1400
1200
1000
800
680
600
500
400
250
200
0
5
2
200
5
20
12
4
4
Target
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Advanced
Manufacturing
Industry 4.0
Stabilising
current
industry
- Workers - Employers - Youth - Women -
Innovation &
Growth
Stemming Job
Losses
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New Growth Path &
the merSETA
Response
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NGP Priority
merSETA Response
Key Relevant Budget Programme &
Objective
Re-industrialisation of the
• Increased investment in development of
Programme 2: Skills Planning
economy and expansion of
artisans
professionals
 Increased publication of research products
manufacturing sector
(learnerships, apprenticeships, bursaries,
that informs cutting edge solutions in the
 Create 5 million jobs
skills
sector
&
engineering
programmes)
in
formal,
SME,
cooperatives and informal enterprises
 Focus
on
development
artisanal
and
skills
particularly
engineering
• Research of new occupations & skills for
new
growth opportunities, to result in
reviewed qualification & curricula
skills
• Reskilling and upskilling of workers
 Develop 50 000 artisans
• Education & skills development of new
by 2020
entrants & unemployed
• Staff development for TVET Colleges, HEIs
& industry based training
• Modernised career guidance
Programme 3: Learning Programmes and
Projects
 Increased contribution to employment &
growth opportunities
 Strengthening partnerships (TVETC, HEI,
State,
Private
Sector)
for
improved
responsiveness to sector needs
 Improved
competency
levels
of
SME,
Informal & cooperatives
Programme 4: Quality Assurance
 Increased responsiveness to sector through
provision of occupational qualifications
 Increased
throughput
of
learners
occupation programmes
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Industrial Policy Action
Plan (incl. Green and
Oceans Economy) &
merSETA Response
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IPAP Priority
merSETA Response
Metal & Steel industry: local
• Increased investment in development of
procurement,
and
tax
beneficiation
incentives
for
investment
Automotive
Industry
development: investment in
local manufacturing
OEM
and components
Key Relevant Budget Programme &
Objectives
professionals
 Increased publication of research products
(learnerships, apprenticeships, bursaries,
that informs cutting edge solutions in the
skills
sector
artisans
&
engineering
programmes)
in
formal,
SME,
Cooperatives & informal enterprises
• Research of new occupations & skills for
new
growth opportunities, to result in
reviewed qualification & curricula;
Plastics: recycling for local
manufacturing
Programme 3: Learning Programmes and
Projects
 Increased contribution to employment &
growth opportunities
• Reskilling & upskilling of workers
Boatbuilding
Programme 2: Skills Planning
 Strengthening partnerships (TVETC, HEI,
• Education & skills development of new
entrants & unemployed
State,
Private
Sector)
for
improved
responsiveness to sector needs
• Staff development for TVET Colleges, HEIs
& industry based training
 Improved
competency
levels
of
SME,
informal & cooperatives
Black industrialists Scheme
• HEI support for innovation in industry
Programme 4: Quality Assurance
Operation Phakisa (marine
• Modernised career guidance
 Increased responsiveness to the mer sector
economy)
• International
network
Green industries: renewable
energy wind and solar
knowledge/skills
exchange
through
provision
of
occupational
qualifications
 Increased
throughput
of
learners
occupation programmes
Creation of new jobs
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Strategic Integrated
Projects (SIPS) &
merSETA Response
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SIP Priority
merSETA Response
Key Relevant Budget Programme &
Objectives
at
• Participation in and support for development
Programme 3: Learning Programmes and
local level to fast track
of centres of specialisations for trade
development
qualifications;
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catalytic
whilst
projects
and
providing
infrastructure
growth
essential
for
service
delivery
Development of artisans,
technologists,
project managers
engineers,
strengthening
TVETC
–
Projects
 Strengthening partnerships (TVETC, HEI,
Industry partnerships for skills development
State,
Private
Sector)
for
for trade occupations
responsiveness to sector needs
improved
• Reskilling & upskilling of workers
Programme 4: Quality Assurance
• Skills development for unemployed youth
 Increased responsiveness to the mer sector
• Local government & provincial government
partnerships
through
provision
of
occupational
qualifications
 Increased
throughput
of
learners
occupation programmes
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Small, Micro,
Cooperatives and
Informal Enterprise
Development &
merSETA Response
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SBD Priority
Industrial park revitalisation
IDZ and SEZ
Community based education
and training for cooperatives
and informal entrepreneurs
merSETA Response
•
Key Relevant Budget Programme &
Objectives
Research into the economies of these
Programme 2: Skills Planning
enterprises at
regional level to identify
 Increased publication of research products
needs & opportunities for skills development
that informs cutting edge solutions in the
support
sector
• National, Provincial and Local government
partnerships
Projects
• TVET College & HEI capacity building to
support these enterprises
• Skills development for unemployed youth &
 Strengthening partnerships (TVETC, HEI,
State,
Private
of
training
ICT
for
apprenticeship/artisan
Sector)
for
improved
responsiveness to sector needs
 Improved
adults
• Use
Programme 3: Learning Programmes and
competency
levels
of
SME,
informal & cooperatives
Programme 4: Quality Assurance
 Increased responsiveness to the mer sector
through
provision
of
occupational
qualifications
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Comprehensive Rural
Development
Programme &
merSETA Response
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CRDP Priority
merSETA Response
 Rural development
• Research of rural economy and
 Sustainable livelihoods
identification of opportunities for skills
 Skills development
 Economic empowerment
communities
development support
of
rural
• Funding for learnerships, internships,
apprenticeships and bursaries
Key Relevant Budget Programme &
Objective
Programme 2: Skills Planning
 Increased publication of research
products that informs cutting edge
solutions in the sector
Programme 3: Learning Programmes
and Projects
• Supporting TVET colleges to provide
small business support
• Support to rural HEIs
 Strengthening partnerships (TVETC,
HEI,
State,
improved
Private
Sector)
responsiveness
for
sector
needs
• Establishing training and trade test
centres
• Entrepreneurship, engagement with
provincial departments
 Improved competency levels of SME,
informal & cooperatives
Programme 4: Quality Assurance
 Increased responsiveness to the mer
sector
through
provision
of
occupational qualifications
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Human Resource
Development Strategy;
NSDS; WPSET &
merSETA Response
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Priority
Foundational Education
TVET (midlevel skills
development)
HEI, Research and
merSETA Response
Key Relevant Budget Programme & Objectives
• Investment in STEM at technical schools
Programme 2: Skills Planning
• Strengthening quality of TVET Colleges
 Increased publication of research products
through college – industry partnerships; staff
that informs cutting edge solutions in the
development; TVET research;
sector
• Bursaries for employed & unemployed; WIL
Innovation (high level skills
support;
development)
learnerships/apprenticeship for trade related
Skills for the economy
occupations;
(workers’ career
internships for professional registration
advancement, adults, NEET
TVET graduate placement on
HEI
graduate
placement
• Research future occupations & skills to
Youth, addressing socially
result in reviewed/new qualifications and
and economically excluded)
curricula
Programme 3: Learning Programmes and
Projects
 Increased contribution to employment and
growth opportunities
 Strengthening partnerships (TVETC, HEI,
State,
Private
for
improved
responsiveness to sector needs
 Improved
• Reskilling & upskilling of workers
Sector)
competency
levels
of
SME,
informal & cooperatives
Developmental State
• Skills for NEET, unemployed adults
Programme 4: Quality Assurance
(building capability of state;
• Support to SME, Cooperatives, Informal
 Increased responsiveness to the mer sector
State as employer to expand
workplace skills training
opportunities)
Enterprises
through
• Local government & provincial government
“Turning every workplace
• Modernised career guidance
into a training space”
• merSETA
staff & governance structures
development programmes
• Industry partnerships
of
occupational
qualifications
 Increased
partnerships
provision
throughput
of
learners
in
occupation programmes
Programme 1: Administration
Increasing public sector capacity for improved
service delivery & supporting and building a
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developmental state.
Advanced
Manufacturing,
Innovation and
Growth & merSETA
Response
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Priority
merSETA Response
Disruptive technology e.g.
• Increased investment in development of
robotics,
artificial
intelligence,
Changing
manufacturing
production processes
 Increased publication of research products
formal, SME, Cooperatives and Informal
that informs cutting edge solutions in the
enterprises
sector
• Research of new occupations & skills for
growth opportunities, to result in
• Reskilling & upskilling of workers
Critical thinking skills
• Education & skills development of new
• HEI support for innovation in industry
skilled , increase of skilled
• Modernised career guidance
and highly skilled
• International
network
completely different by 2020
Private
Sector)
for
improved
responsiveness sector needs
 Improved
& industry based training
Decline in unskilled and semi
39% of core skills in RSA
 Strengthening partnerships (TVETC, HEI,
State,
• Staff development for TVET Colleges, HEIs
knowledge/skills
Projects
growth opportunities
entrants and unemployed
by 2020 (ILO)
Programme 3: Learning Programmes and
 Increased contribution to employment and
reviewed qualification & curricula;
skills
Unemployment of 11 million
Programme 2: Skills Planning
artisans & engineering professionals in
new
Flexibility and adaptability of
Key Relevant Budget Programme &
Objectives
competency
levels
of
SME,
informal & cooperatives
Programme 4: Quality Assurance
exchange
 Increased responsiveness to the mer sector
through
the
provision
of
occupational
qualifications
 Increased
throughput
of
learners
occupation programmes
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Stabilising current
industry and stemming
job losses & merSETA
Responses
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Priority
Job shedding – 11 million
jobs since Quarter 4 of 2015
Dis-investment
Effects of Industry 4.0
merSETA Response
•
Key Relevant Budget Programme &
Objectives
Increased investment in development of
Programme 2: Skills Planning
artisans & engineering professionals in
 Increased publication of research products
formal, SME, Cooperatives and Informal
that informs cutting edge solutions in the
enterprises
sector
• Research of new occupations & skills for
Unemployment of 11 million
new
growth opportunities, to result in
by 2020 (ILO)
reviewed qualification & curricula;
skilled , increase of skilled
and highly skilled
growth opportunities
• Training Lay-O ff Scheme & Retrenchment
Assistance Programme
• Staff development for TVET Colleges, HEIs
& industry based training
Sector)
for
improved
responsiveness sector needs
competency
levels
of
SME,
informal & cooperatives
Programme 4: Quality Assurance
• HEI support for innovation in industry
• Modernised career guidance
network
Private
 Improved
entrants and unemployed
knowledge/skills
 Strengthening partnerships (TVETC, HEI,
State,
• Education & skills development of new
• International
Projects
 Increased contribution to employment and
• Reskilling & upskilling of workers
Decline in unskilled and semi
Programme 3: Learning Programmes and
 Increased responsiveness to the mer sector
through
exchange
provision
of
occupational
qualifications
 Increased
throughput
of
learners
occupation programmes
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Thank you
Chairperson: Phindile Baleni (Ms)
Chief Executive Officer: Raymond Patel (Dr)
010 219 3338
[email protected]
www.merseta.org.za
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