R204 Implementation Plan at Local Govt. Level

R204 Implementation Plan at local govt. level

1. Initial kick-start – a collaborative workshopsupported by ILO, to be attended by all relevant stakeholders in government, other NEDLAC social partners, and identified representative organizations of workers in the informal economy, to discuss and agree upon how to approach the following:

1. Social protection –affected stakeholders, including beneficiaries, government and social partnerswill engage about how to integrate this element into existing programmes, in consultation with the ILO for best practice examples.

1. Representation and collective bargaining – StreetNet International has developed guidelines[1] and is able to provide training on negotiations skills. Other training materials from DoL, trade unions & other sources.

1. Databases of all identified sectors of informal work – this will need more discussion with the representatives of the sectors about how to go about it, and how to fund it.
   IEBA (Informal Economy Budget Analysis) as a tool.

1. Specific projects to be developed for specific sectors in consultation with representatives of these sectors once the database of info has been set up.

1. Training in municipal management systems – priority area, areas of training to be determined by evidence.

1. Exchange visits – between municipalities for learning (must include workers).

1. Provision of facilities
   

1. Bylaws & regulations
   

1. Capacity enhancement & training – all stakeholders
   

1. Local government NEDLAC model

1. Incentives, compliance & enforcement

Proposal – challenges, concerns, gaps

National NEDLAC, planned provincial NEDLAC, what about local level NEDLAC
Integrate implementation plan with IDPs
Formal business is not participating on purpose because they fear competition – how come they go to Geneva to discuss this issue but don’t come to country workshop?
ILO is funding projects which compete with informal economy workers
Problem of incentives (compensation for loss of income when attending workshop)
Complaint about funding constraints (govt. funding not felt on the ground)
Local govt. allocates land to big business (e.g. mall developments) – mustinclude criteria for empowering informal economy (i.e. provide space in their plans)
Budgets need to be allocated in municipal wards to informal traders
What criteria will be used to invite informal economy reps to (national) events?
Time-frames are often left out of presentation of government projects

Challenges

Selling of drugs all over
Lack of facilities – free toilets, etc.
No privacy/security in toilets at landfill sites and taxi ranks
Divide & rule role played by municipalities – they are supposed to unite
Continuity of administration of programmes – agreements must be institutionalised so we don’t have to keep on re-starting

Concerns

Taxi industry – customer care training needed before anything else – taxi drivers agree
Home-based care – need data-base
Street vendors – permits need to be issued with registration (one-stop), need training about spatial regulation, need funding, business skills and customer care training, need to register
Refugees & foreigners – govt. must reduce them, especially Islamic migrants
CC needs training on immigration & Refugee Acts
Engage with Home Affairs wrt foreign nationals
Acts & bylaws need to respond to economic needs of informal economy, not against them

Gaps

Missing sectors:Domestic workers
Home-based care workers
Community health workers
People with disabilities

Capacity training & development

Implementation Plan – challenges, concerns, gaps

All government plans should incorporate transition from informal to formal
ILO Pretoria office should concentrate only on South Africa and leave other SADC countries
Problem of corruption – e.g. on confiscations and bribes from vendors
Change the way we work in this progamme
Legality of programme must be checked to force implementation
Want “true definition” of formal, informal and SMMEs
Bring SALGA and COGTA into determination of municipalities
SAGA & COGTA are part of NEDLAC
“Municipal” instead of urban – to include rural
Inadequate representation of key stakeholders
Need of support
LED instead of Metro Police
Bribery & corruption – two-way street

Gaps

Guidelines may not be fully representative –Durban Metro model for consultation ??
Add more govt. Departments to initial workshop, e.g. govt. departments
Employers hiring foreigners for cheap labour
People living with disabilities
Domestic workers
Youth – drugs programmes needed
Include Labour, Metro Police & COGTA in initial workshop, Business
All sectors to be included in data-bases, also EPWPs, care workers, car guards
Enforcement of sectoral determination
Rural areas – training for officials
Bulk-buying cooperatives
Damage control – need training as organisational leaders

Changes

Create representative structure for benchmark with KZN
Use of data-base for information
Exchange visits (local or international?)
Social protection – who are ILO’s experts?
Training to be done in line with town planning
Social protection – add all involved in SP and DSD

Additions

Add private social security schemes
Private financial service institutions
Training for all role-players in informal economy
Training in municipal bylaws
Add Labour Dept on social dialogue training (not only StreetNet)
Bylaws to be implemented in consultation with people on the ground
Employers should comply with Minimum Wage
Inspectors should enforce – get access to private property (domestic workers)
Proper facilities, workshop according to our needs
Funding for our organisations
Transport – to be easily accessible
After-care programme to assess implementation
IEBA to be done
Add spaza shops

Identified Mangaung, eThekwini and ??to find data-base development

[1]StreetNet 2013 “Towards amodel frameworkfor a local level collective bargaining system forstreet traders”