The study states that the construction skills can help train beneficiaries to achieve sustainable employment in the housing construction sector. The contribution of construction skills transfer in complementary housing projects to help training beneficiaries obtain sustainable employment opportunities.
Preliminary Beneficiaries
The researcher visited the case study projects in order to obtain information from the training participants. In asking these questions mentioned above, it was necessary to determine whether these training users were able to obtain sustainable employment after building projects using the construction skills acquired.
Incremental Housing and Its Principles
The trainees will be able to gain enough experience while building houses and the experience can help them in getting other sustainable employment opportunities available in the house building industry to earn enough income , with which they can achieve housing. The above statement suggests that trainees will be able to gain stable employment in the housing construction or related construction industry when there is a stable supply of housing, which is accompanied by investment in infrastructure.
Pillars of Sustainable Construction Industry
Therefore, providing construction skills is one of the ways to make investments, because the training beneficiaries will be able to obtain sustainable work that will enable them to generate income to achieve housing improvements. The development of appropriate education systems is an essential part of the reconstruction and development of society, especially for the disadvantaged communities to be able to take advantage of sustainable employment opportunities available in the housing construction industry. The participation of women in the construction industry gives them a chance to earn income for housing improvements because some of the women are women who head households.
Training beneficiaries of the construction of incremental housing projects largely understand the standards, norms and values of the houses to be built, as well as the needs of the community. The transfer of construction skills will be useful in training beneficiaries to obtain sustainable employment in the housing construction industry through the establishment of Small Scale Enterprises (SSEs). The skills and entrepreneurial development will encourage the community to take ownership of the housing initiative.
Employment and Redistribution Strategy (GEAR) I and at the promulgation of the National Small Business Act in 1996. The provision of social services is likely to provide employment to training recipients, allowing them in return to generate income to implement housing improvements.
Concluding Remarks
This section provides a brief historical background to the case study areas of the Hambanati, Mshayazafe and Waterloo phased housing projects. In this section, we have discussed the project financing and historical background, including the reasons why these phased housing projects were chosen and their location. The Hambanati, Mshayazafe and Waterloo phased housing projects have adopted skills training programs before and during housing construction.
It is well known that in South Africa there is a lack of skills to help its people enter the labor market to be able to generate income by buying houses for themselves without government interference. The Sunday Times (2001) argues that South Africa's severe lack of technical and professional skills is commonly described by economists as the most material barrier as the country focuses on achieving good levels of economic growth over the next decade. Therefore, there is a need to investigate skills training that takes place in housing delivery to understand its potential to benefit the disadvantaged trainees towards sustainable employment created in the housing sector, which in turn allows them to generate income for housing improvements, including . other things.
Brief Historical Background of Hambanati Housing Project Hambanati housing project was started in 1998. This housing
The project was financed by the Metro housing unit of the Ethekwini Municipality with the aim of helping people who earned less than R3500 to find housing. Hambanati housing project is an old, well-established community and the majority of the houses developed as part of the subsidy project were allocated to the next of kin of people who lived in the council housing in Hambanati. But the researcher only interviewed 30 training beneficiaries to examine the impact of the construction skills.
This Community Development Trust involved the Mshayazafe community and external people from the area (field study, 2001). The Waterloo Development Committee was the representative structure that promoted the development needs of the community. The house building process was slow and only 50% of the sites have houses (BESG, 2000).
Concluding Remarks
70% of training beneficiaries surveyed in the Hambanati housing project agreed that they had secured employment in the construction sector after the completion of the project. The data in the table shows that 100% of the training beneficiaries built houses during the construction of the project. The survey results showed that 70% of the training beneficiaries of the Hambanati Housing Project managed to obtain employment after the project was completed.
29% of the training beneficiaries who were employed after the project set up small-scale construction enterprises (SSCEs). 70% of the training beneficiaries who were employed after the project were between the ages of 18 and 35. 29% and 70% who were employed after the project of training beneficiaries mentioned that they were able to get.
Sustainable Employment After Hambanati Housing Project
These trainees were among the 70% of trainees who achieved post-employment. This percentage of training beneficiaries who made housing improvements showed that the training beneficiaries in Hambanati managed to find stable employment after the construction of the project in the construction industry. Therefore, in Hambanati 70% of the training beneficiaries who acquired construction skills managed to achieve stable employment after the completion of the project in the construction industry.
38% of the 70% of trainees who achieved sustainable employment mentioned that they did not make home improvements. The study showed that these trainees managed to obtain employment after the completion of the project in housing construction. 31% of Mshayazafe housing project trainees said they were employed outside the housing sector.
Sustainable Employment After Mshayazafe Housing Project The training beneficiaries from Mshayazafe did not enjoy
These beneficiaries of the enhanced training said they used their own construction skills to improve their homes in Mshayazafe. The training beneficiaries who managed to secure sustainable employment and improve their homes said they managed to generate an income of between R900 and R2500 per month. There were four training beneficiaries out of the 17% of training beneficiaries who achieved sustainable employment. They pointed out that housing improvements were not their first priority.
Additionally, 52% of unemployed training beneficiaries in Mshayazafe were unable to find work, which in turn helped them generate income for housing improvements. The study found that the unimproved houses of the Mshayazafe's training beneficiaries were like the above houses. The research findings of the study indicated that there were 33% of the training beneficiaries who obtained sustainable employment who succeeded in making both external and internal housing improvements using the construction skills they acquired from the project.
Construction Skills in Waterloo Housing Project
The above percentages indicate that trainees were able to find employment during the construction of Waterloo. The percentage of trainees who found employment after the construction of Waterloo was very low. 65% of the trainees clearly stated that the main reason why they did not improve their houses was the fact that they were not employed.
10% of the training participants who got a job after the project pointed out that improving housing was not their first priority. Findings from the Waterloo housing project showed that trainees failed to gain permanent employment after completing the housing project, with 65% of them not earning any income that was generated by using the construction skills learned in the construction of the Waterloo project. Even those trainees who confirmed that they were employed with their construction skills in residential construction did not use their income to achieve housing improvements.
Concluding Remarks
The approaches used to empower the trainees did not allow them to achieve sustainable employment in housing construction. The results indicated that the trainees in Hambanati were able to use their construction skills to gain sustainable employment. The results from Hambanati showed that the trainees were able to achieve sustainable employment using the construction skills provided by Khuphuka.
The beneficiaries of the training are able to use these construction enterprises to gain sustainable employment in the housing construction industry. The study found that there were unproductive construction skills in Mshayazafe and Waterloo that helped the beneficiaries of the training gain sustainable employment. These construction skills would help the trainees gain sustainable employment in the housing construction industry or elsewhere.
KCSIR
STD2 STD 3- STD 7
What type of skills did you gain from the project? a) Masonry skill (b) Management skillII (c) Carpentry skill (d) Wiring skill (e) Plastering skill (f) Other,. Do you think skills learned were suitable enough to help you obtain em 10 ment0 ortunities. What skills do you think could be useful to help you get jobs.
If no, why?
What other skills do use in your employment?
Have you joined any savings schemes or clubs that allow you to make money with other members of the community. If you haven't done any home improvements, what are the chances that you will improve your home in the coming years. Is this your first choice of material or would you have used it differently if your resources were different.
58.How can people with skills provided in incremental housing projects be helped to access employment opportunities.
EJJ ~
J6je believes this time was sufficient to teach trainees skills that would enable them to obtain employment. Do you think that the skills you offer are competitive enough to place training participants in the labor market? How can skills provided in complementary housing projects help beneficiaries acquire sustainable employment opportunities?
Do you think that beneficiaries who have acquired skills through training could obtain sustainable employment in the construction sector? How did you ensure that the skills provided would help in securing sustainable employment by training beneficiaries participating in the housing projects? Do you think that the skills provided in phased housing projects would help train beneficiaries to gain sustainable employment?
