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The Jobs Fund was established by the South African government in June 2011 with the aim of supporting innovative initiatives and approaches to job creation. The Fund offers once-off grants in the areas of enterprise development, infrastructure, support for work seekers and institutional capacity building.

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Operating on challenge fund principles, the Fund issues open calls for proposals and considers proposals from the public sector including municipalities, government departments, the private sector and not-for-profit organisations that can contribute towards achieving systemic impact on job creation and poverty reduction.
Over the past eight years, the Jobs Fund has demonstrated that it is possible for the private and public sectors, as well as civil society organisations to collaborate, share risk and achieve greater social impact by implementing innovative models for job creation and thereby catalysing broader participation and inclusion in the economy.
After eight funding rounds, the Jobs Fund has contracted R8.5 billion to a portfolio of 146 projects. These projects will potentially leverage an additional R13.3 billion from our partners to create 259,250 permanent jobs, 56,930 short term jobs, 26,695 internships and train 306,702 beneficiaries by 2025.

 

For more information visit our website.

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SUCCESS STORIES
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[panel panel-style="transparent" title="HARAMBEE%20YOUTH%20EMPLOYMENT%20ACCELERATOR"]South Africans from the most marginalised backgrounds rarely get the chance to come into contact with potential employers. This is for multiple reasons: the social and geographic legacy of apartheid, the poor quality of schooling, high cost of transport, limited skills and experience. Experience is the determining factor in how likely a person is to gain formal employment, locking out millions of youth caught in the vicious cycle of not having experience and not being able to access it.

Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator helps thousands of young South Africans to get and keep their first job, in a way that simultaneously addresses the needs of employers and employees. Through extensive consultation with employers around their recruitment needs and challenges faced in hiring young people, Harambee has structured a rigorous bridging programme that directly addresses these needs and offers employers the option of tapping into all or parts of the value chain.

Tabea Nong, a single mother from Diepkloof Johannesburg, is a university graduate with an honours degree but has battled to find a full-time permanent job.

“Harambee changed my life by giving me the opportunity to get employment, to be able to give my son a better life. The bridging experience introduced to me concepts that I was aware of but had not yet internalised, like maintaining a positive attitude, being disciplined and effective communication skills," she says.

Driven by its social impact objective, Harambee recruits South African work-seekers between the ages of 18 and 34 from marginalised communities, who have at least completed Grade 10 and are not studying full time.

“The Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator is one of the Jobs Fund’s flagship projects. The Fund’s objectives are well-aligned with the work that the programme is doing, that is to focus on the upliftment of youth and women”, says Najwah Allie-Edries, Head of The Jobs Fund.

After only 10 months at Imperial Health Sciences, Tabea was promoted to a Compliance Coordinator.

“My highlights so far have included flying for the first time, spending a month in Liberia on a training programme and being called out in front of the whole company by the MD as someone to watch," she beams.
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[panel panel-style="transparent" title="BLACK%20UMBRELLAS"]Black Umbrellas (BU) is an innovative programme supported by the Jobs Fund that seeks to address low levels of entrepreneurship and high failure rates among black start-up businesses. It's incubator model provides a structured programme where beneficiaries are afforded professional services, including skills development, mentoring, access to markets and office infrastructure at a subsided rate, over a three-year period. This programme of interventions assists the entrepreneur to building a solid foundation for establishing and maintaining sustainable businesses.

Part of the Black Umbrellas incubation programme, Thulare AB Kgafela, known as AB, is a young and vibrant filmmaker. He started out as a production and camera assistant in 2004 and became involved in scriptwriting, production planning, directing to editing and camera operating. The combined skills gave AB the upper hand in the industry. The South African film industry is growing steadily with international investors looking at the country with great interest.

“I started T-Tree media in 2012 while I was still under my previous employer, I had realised that I had hit the ceiling in what I was offering my employer and I was ready to face the real world of entrepreneurship”, said AB.

Black Umbrellas has helped AB’s company to determine its key value proposition and core values thus creating a sound business plan that is investor ready.

“They have helped me to identify my market share, sizing up my competitor and developing a compelling value proposition for my business,” said AB.

The strategic objective of Shanduka Black Umbrellas is to ensure that at least 50% of the enterprises they have supported through the programme meet the sustainability criteria. This is said to be more than double the national average where only 10% to 20% of start-up businesses survive beyond the first three years of their existence.

The Jobs Fund and Black Umbrellas recognise that in an increasingly digital world, the demand for online training and support for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is growing exponentially. Black Umbrellas is therefore supplementing its business development support programme through a virtual incubation support app.
SME incubation and support centres tend to located within urban areas.

“By offering virtual support we are closing the geographical divide between rural and urban locations which will result in more inclusive access to enterprise development services,” says Allie-Edries.
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