SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

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SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

Every year, uMngeni-uThukela Water compiles and submits a Workplace Skills Plan and Annual Training Report to Energy and Water Sector Education Training Authority (EWSETA), which guides the implementation of skills and development initiatives through the identification of the skills needs of the entity and ensures the effectiveness of skills development plans. 

The skills development programmes include:

  • Employee training and development;
  • Assisted education programme;
  • Learnership and apprenticeship programmes
  • Bursary programme;
  • Graduate trainee and Internship programmes; and,
  • Leadership Development.

SKILLS AUDIT & CAPACITY BUILDING FRAMEWORK

The outcome of the uMngeni-uThukela Water Skills Audit provided the entity with a five-year multi-layered competency framework that guides the identification of skills development gaps, scarce and critical skills and prioritisation of training and development initiatives to support the entity’s continuity. For this reporting period, the entity is on year four of the skills audit of the implementation plan

For the reporting period, the entity continued with the application of the approved three-layered Capacity Building Framework that offers a simplified and systematic approach to organisational capacity building to aid the implementation and evaluation of capacity building programmes. that is individual, organisational and environmental levels.