Work-stream

Key Focus Area

Key Performance Indicator

Measure

Outputs 2006/7

Trade and Industry Chamber

Enhancing the role of women in business

Coordinate a process to assess impact of BEE

Produce a Nedlac report on BEE that emphasizes developing women in business

Adoption of policy to promote black women in industries

Infrastructure development

Commence a process that examines the linkages between infrastructure development and manufacturing growth, logistics, reducing the cost of business, regional development, State Owned Enterprise activities

Produce a Nedlac report that clearly highlights policy linkages between the different areas.

Adoption and implementation of modified policies that are more holistic

Industrial Policy & Strategy

The process to finalise the country's Industrial Policy and Strategy is fast tracked

A Nedlac agreement is finalised

An agreed Industrial policy and strategy is adopted together with a programme of action.

Trade and industrial policy

Coordinate a process to strengthen links between the Trade and Industrial Policy is set in motion.

Production of Nedlac reports that reflect this link

Adoption of policies that promote the linkage between trade and industrial policy

BBBEE

Set up a process to examine cross cutting issues that impacts on SMMEs and Cooperatives

Agreed instruments to mitigate the unintended consequences of the BBBEE policy framework

Implementation and monitoring mechanisms
Finalised and ready for implementation.

Promotion of SMME's

Investigate obstacles to SMMEs development and examine ways to address them.

Finalisation of new measures to remove the obstacles

Agreed set of instruments to remove the obstacles are put in place and implemented.

Trade and Industry

Prioritised sectors; (BPO, tourism, metals and engineering, construction, regulatory impact assessments, pre-impact assessment of BBBEE, employment strategy, livelihoods, GDS implementation research focus, FRIDGE)

A process to identify strategies to unlock the value on the prioritised sectors commences.

A Nedlac Agreement is produced and a programme of action is finalised.

The programme of action is rolled out. (Tourism, Chemicals, Metals & Engineering, Construction and BPO.

TESELICO

Services

The task team to lead with services negotiations and the multilateral (WTO) and bilateral trade negotiations is set in motion

A nedlac agreement is produced for consideration by the Chamber and Manco respectively.

Nedlac report is adopted as the basis for negotiations on services at a multilateral and bilateral level

WTO-NAMA

Coordinate process to interact with Government on the outcomes of the Hong Kong Ministerial talks.

Nedlac commissions a study as part of preparing inputs into the engagements in Teselico and the Geneva processes.

The country's positions on the various issues is finalised.

Final Nedlac position on market access for industrial goods (at the WTO negotiations)

Nedlac position is adopted by the Nedlac social partners and it forms the basis for engagement in the WTO trade negotiations.

TESELICO

SACU negotiations with EFTA Mercosur, USA

Coordinate interaction with stakeholders on trade negotiations

Nedlac reports to be adopted on trade negotiations with EFTA, Mercosur, USA

Nedlac position is adopted by the Nedlac social partners and it forms the basis for engagement in the WTO trade negotiations.

SADC mid-term review

Coordinate process to review SADC trade protocol and technical barriers to trade (tbt's)

Develop Nedlac report on trade protocol.

Adoption of the Nedlac position on the review of the SADC trade protocol.

SA-EU-TDCA

Fast track the process to develop the Country's approach to SA-EU-TDCA review

An agreed position is finalised for consideration by MANCO.

Adoption of the report and it forms the basis for the review process.

Sacu-India

Prepare the list of products of export interest for consideration by the committee.

An agreed list is agreed and tabled in MANCO for consideration and sign-off.

The Agreed Nedlac position forms the basis for the country's engagement on the SACU - India trade talks.

Sacu-China

Subcommittee engages on the merits and demerits of formalizing trade arrangements with China

A house view is developed and agreed. It is tabled in MANCO for consideration.

The agreed house view forms the basis for the engagement with China

Sector Summits

Chemical Sector summit

Coordinate a task team to deal with the logistics of the summit.
Prepare the state of readiness report and the logistical arrangements for the summit

Chemical Sector summit state of readiness report is tabled in MANCO for consideration and sign-off

The Summit is convened and the sector strategy is adopted and launched officially.

The programme to implement the decisions is rolled out.

ICT Sector

Coordinate a process developing programmes to implement the ICT Sector Declaration

A programme of implementation of the declaration is tabled in MANCO for consideration and sign-off.

Implementation of ICT Declaration programme is rolled out.

Metals and Engineering

Fast track the process to develop the sector strategy for Metals and Engineering.

A Nedlac agreement is prepared for tabling in MANCO for consideration and sign-off.

The Sector Summit is convened where the agreed sector strategy is formally announced and the implementation plan is rolled out.

Construction

Fast track the process of consultations in order to speed up progress.

Prepare a Nedlac report on the heads of agreement for consideration by MANCO.

Manco gives guidance on the way forward.

Retail Sector

Coordinate a task team to examine the practical steps that are required to address the proposal to facilitate a sector partnership strategies for the Retail sector.

A nedlac report is prepared for consideration by MANCO.

An agreed programme to start the work of developing agreed sets of interventions in the retail sector commences.