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Ensuring decent livelihoods in
post-mining economies
The mining sector is a major employer in South Africa,
but mining is a destructive industry that often leaves
communities destitute when a mine closes, unable to
earn a living from the degraded land in the region.
The Towards Resilient Futures Community of
Practice is an interdisciplinary project involving
researchers from UCT’s Faculties of Law,
Engineering and the Built Environment and
Commerce to remediate degraded mining land and
produce bio-products from the land, establishing both
a low-skill agriculture job market as well as a higher-skill
processing job market.
The project started with phase one in 2017. Phase
two continued into 2022, exploring to what extent the
cultivation of fibre-rich crops can lead to enhanced
economic complexity through the manufacture of
primary and secondary products and the establishment
of a fibre micro-industry.
This interdisciplinary project, involving
researchers from numerous faculties
at UCT, is working to remediate
degraded mining land and produce
bio-products, establishing both a lowskill agriculture job market as well as a
higher-skill processing job market.
The Labour Market Intelligence
research programme
The University of Cape Town (UCT), and specifically the
Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU), act as Project
Managers for the Labour Market Intelligence (LMI) research
programme, an initiative of the government’s Department of
Higher Education and Training (DHET) with support from the
National Skills Fund (NSF). The aim of this programme is to
establish a credible institutional mechanism for skills planning.
2022
2022
2022
Skills Needs of the
Informal Sector:
A Conceptual Framework
Skills, Education, and the
Impact of Covid-19 on the
South African Labour Market:
A Conceptual Framework
Labour Market Intelligence
research programme
Labour Market Intelligence
research programme
Below: In 2022, this collaboration
between government and UCT
produced several papers.
2022
Skills Strategy:
Support for the
South African
Economic
Reconstruction
and Recovery
Plan
2022
Skills Supply
and Demand in
South Africa
Labour Market Intelligence
research programme
Migration
Analysis:
Investigating
the Impact of
International
Migration on
Skills Supply
and Demand in
South Africa
Labour Market Intelligence
research programme
NSF
NSF
NSF
NSF
National Skills Fund
National Skills Fund
National Skills Fund
National Skills Fund
FUNDING TO SKILL OUR NATION
FUNDING TO SKILL OUR NATION
FUNDING TO SKILL OUR NATION
FUNDING TO SKILL OUR NATION
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