W&RSETA DISCRETIONARY GRANTS – 2012/2013
Summary of discretionary grant benefits for levy paying and non-levy paying employers

**All participating organisations must have all learners registered with the W&RSETA by 15 March 2013.

**Detailed guidelines and application forms for each Discretionary Grant will be available on the W&RSETA website on the 16 December 2012.

** It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that the training provider chosen is accredited and has the necessary scope to deliver the programme

** It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that the number of learners applied for will be delivered.

Discretionary Grant / Number of learners available
NQF1/Adult Education and Training (AET) / 500
Artisan Training / 200
Critical Skills Training / 1000
FET Lecturer Training / 50
Trainingfor Cooperatives / 50
Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) / 500
Rural Development Funding / 500
Workplace Experience and Employment Grants (WEEG) / 1000
FET College Graduates Placement Grant (Internships) / 1500
ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING GRANT

Adult Education and Training window is a grant that seeks to up skill employed learners within the General Education and Training Band in Adult Education and Training. The GETC (NQF 1)learnership and the W&RSETA NQF 1learnershipwill provide learners with foundational learning through the acquisition of knowledge and skills needed for social and economic development and the promotion of justice and equality.

R 15000.00 per learner for management and delivery.

Payment Tranches / Management & Delivery per learner / Quality Indicators for Management & Delivery payments:
  1. Start
/ R7500.00 /
  • Implementation plan
  • Learner verification by the SETA
  • Registered Learnership agreement

  1. Completion
/ R7500-00 /
  • Learner certification

ARTISAN GRANT

The W&RSETA has determined that the best form of support would be to fund the cost of implementing artisans programmes for currently employed (18.1) and unemployed (18.2) young individuals in this sector. The artisan training must be based on the needs of the employer. (Please see attached list of artisansoccupations).

The payment structure for this grant will be determined by the interventions that will be requested by the employers.

Maximum R42000.00 per learner

CRITICAL SKILLS GRANT

This refers to specific technical knowledge and experience within an occupation. Critical Skills may be specific or generic “top up” skills within an occupation.

The intention is to fund learning interventions for the employees in order to address identified critical skills in the sector. Please see attached list of the critical skills as per SSP.

The SETA will pay R1250 per unit standard to a maximum of 6 unit standards.

Payment Tranches / Management & Delivery per learner / Quality Indicators for Management & Delivery payments:
  1. Start
/ 50% /
  • Implementation plan
  • Learner verification by the SETA
  • Registered Skills programmes or Unit Standards agreement

  1. Completion
/ 50% /
  • Learner certification

PUBLIC FET COLLEGE LECTURER GRANT

The SETA intends to expose Public FET College Lecturers to the W&R Sector operations so that they are able to match theoretical and practical knowledge of the sector. This will inturn assist the Public FET colleges to implement programmes that are relevant to the W&R Sector. Partnerships between the wholesale and retail stakeholders and Public FET’s are encouraged in order to benefit from this Grant. Public FET colleges to benefit from this grant should have participated in our ETQA Capacitation project. Applications for this grant must come from W&RSETA employers. Employers must indicate the kind of intervention that they will engage in. The cost of the intervention must be included in the application

CO-OPERATIVE GRANT

The purpose of this grant is to provide funding to Co-operatives, in order to address their skills gaps in line with the W&RSETA scarce and critical skills. Partnerships with other organizations including rural based organizations can also benefit from this Grant. Learning Programmes that can be run in this grant can either be skills programmes or learnerships. The funding only covers members of the co-operative.

The funding model will follow that of skills programmes or learnerships.

Payment Tranches / Management & Delivery per learner / Quality Indicators for Management & Delivery payments:
  1. Start
/ 50% /
  • Implementation plan
  • Learner verification by the SETA
  • Registered Learnership agreement

  1. Completion
/ 50% /
  • Learner certification

RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING GRANT

The W&RSETA accepts Recognition of Prior Learning as a key mechanism for the implementation of the National Qualifications Framework (NQF), particularly in as far as accelerated learning and ensuring the redress of past inequalities are concerned. It also allows for a more cost effective means of acknowledging the knowledge and skills of employees in the workplace.

The RPL grant will be calculated at 75% of the funding model for learnerships and skills program.

Payment Tranches / Management & Delivery per learner / Quality Indicators for Management & Delivery payments:
  1. Start
/ 50% /
  • Learners registered on the W&RSETA Management System

  1. Completion
/ 50% /
  • Learner certification

WORKPLACE EXPERIENCE AND EMPLOYMENT GRANT

This grant is intended to provide workplace experience and employment opportunities to unemployed graduates with qualifications related to the W&R sector completed at a registered higher education institution and further education and training institutions in any of the scarce and skills.

Only unemployed graduates should participate in this project in order to obtain relevant workplace experience.

Sub-Project A: Graduate Programme for Public FET Graduates (NCV Level 4 and Artisan N3)

  • Learner stipends will be made available to employers providing an employment opportunity for a graduate from a Public Further Education and Training Institution recognized by UMALUSI, for a period of twelve (12) months.

Learners will be paid a stipend of R2000 per month.

Sub-Project B: Graduate Programme for Degree / 3 year Diploma Graduates

  • Learner stipends will be made available to employers providing an employment opportunity for a period of twelve (12) months to unemployed graduates who graduated from an HET Institution recognized by the CHE.

Learners will be paid a stipend of R3500 per month.

WORKPLACE EXPERIENCE GRANT FOR FINAL YEAR STUDENTS

This grant is intended to provide workplace experience for final year students from registered Higher Education and Further Education Training Institutions in scarce skills in order to obtain their qualification.

Only Final year unemployed students and graduates should participate in the project in order to achieve their qualifications.

Sub-Project A: Experiential Programme

  • Learner stipends will be made available to employers providing workplace experience opportunities for a minimum of three (3) months and a maximum of six (6) months for final year students enrolled with a registered and CHE recognized Higher Education Institution.

R2,500 per month for a final year student for a minimum of 3 months to a maximum of 6 months.

Sub-Project B: Internship Programme for N6 FET Graduates

  • Learner stipends will be made available to employers providing relevant workplace experience opportunities for an N6 graduate from a Further Education and Training Institution recognized by UMALUSI for a period of eighteen (18) months, in order to assist the students to obtain their National Diplomas.

R2,500 per month for an N6 Graduate for 18 months.

RURAL DEVELOPMENT GRANT

The purpose of this grant is to improve retailing skills of learners employed within our sector in rural areas.

Priority to be given to rural youth to enter and complete W&RSETA learning programmes at entry, intermediate and high level skills. Partnerships with other organizations that are rural-based can also benefit from this grant.

The funding model will follow that of skills programmes or learnerships.

The % split between employed and unemployed will be defined in the applicable guidelines and application criteria.

Payment Tranches / Management & Delivery per learner / Quality Indicators for Management & Delivery payments:
  1. Start
/ 50% /
  • Implementation plan
  • Learner verification by the SETA
  • Registered Learnership/Skills Programme agreement

  1. Completion
/ 50% /
  • Learner certification

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