JIPSA

implementation  of  ASGISA  in  putting  into  place  JIPSA  (Joint

Initiative for Priority Skills Acquisition) in 2006. JIPSA was meant

In the Eastern Cape the Government is confronted with the same

problem on the provincial level: the miss-match between the

training outputs and the need of skills in the economy is obvious.

Furthermore challenges are faced in terms of co-ordination of

Human Resource Development (HRD) in the Province due to the

The PGDP review also showed the important role of provincial

co-ordination in HRD, the formulation of the Industrial Strategy

shows  the  skills  deficit  in  key  targeted  sector  and  the  Jobs

Summit recommended in 2007 to set up an ‘Education & Human

Based on this analysis the provincial government decided to set

up a JIPSA-like structure in the Eastern Cape. In November 2007

a JIPSA EC secretariat was populated at ECSECC to support the

overall implementation of the initiative which is funded through

the Office of the Premier. The first provincial JIPSA Council meeting

took place on the 26 March 2008 and the provincial representative

structure got the mandate to co-ordinate skills development in

The  JIPSA Council is headed  by  the honourable MEC Nkwinti

and consists of representatives from the Provincial Government

(DG and MECs); organised labour and business, youth, national

SETAs, SALGA, Vice Chancellors of all provincially located HEIs,

three FET Colleges and the Chief Directorate for VET and ABET.

Even if there are synergies between the national and the provincial

initiatives there are also fundamental differences. The Provincial

initiative supports primarily the optimization of the Education

and & Training system, the actual implementation for identified

THIS SHORT REPORT should serve the purpose to give an overview

and up-date on the currently running projects as per Councils