Impact assessment of National Skills Development Strategy II: impact of skills development support on small, medium and large enterprises, BEE enterprises and BEE co-operatives

During 2010-2012, the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and the Development Policy Research Unit (UCT) with funding from the South African Department of Labour (DoL), conducted an evaluation of the progress made in skills development since the implementation of the National Skills Development Strategy II (NSDSII) in March 2005. The research covered three thematic areas: (1) the impact of skills development on placement of learners upon completion of their program; (2) the impact of skills development support on large, medium and small firms as well as on government, Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) firms and cooperatives; and (3) progress evaluation on support to high-level scarce and critical skills for both workers and unemployed learners.

The outcomes of this study of the impact of skills development support on small, medium and large enterprises, BEE enterprises, and BEE co-operatives were to be a review of the literature on BEE firms and BEE co-operatives, particularly from a skills development perspective, and a National Skills Survey (NSS) of training in private enterprises in 2010. This report is the outcome of that impact assessment. More specifically, the study focused on objective two of the NSDSII, 'Promoting and accelerating quality training for all in the workplace, in particular, three of its success indicators. Show less