5. Community Based Transport 

The main aim of Sakha Isizwe Community Based Transportation Programme is to institutionalise and guarantee a more balanced transportation system throughout the Eastern Cape Province, and at the same time, to create new work and business opportunities for the disadvantaged communities. To achieve the above, Sakha Isizwe Community Based Transportation has the following projects to implement for the new financial year 2007/08:  

• Transport Forums  
• Upscaling of EPWP projects in the roads sector  
• Sakha Isizwe Household Contractors  
• Sakha Isizwe Learnership Programme  
• Non-Motorised Transportation  
• Alternative means of roads surfacing 
• Impact assessment of projects 

Sub-programme 

5.1 Programme Support 

Manage the resources of the program efficiently; develop an enabling and supportive environment in order to achieve the key result areas as stipulated in each sub-Programme. 

5.2 Training Programme  

The overall emerging contractor Programme rests with the Department of Public Works. However many transportation projects are ideally suited to developing this sector in a sustainable way. This programme will be responsible for organizing and facilitating suitable training programme. 

5.3 Empowerment Impact assessment  

The objective of this program is to provide integrated transport solution to serve communities of the Eastern Cape Province, which were neglected in the past. This programme will facilitate and provide opportunities for social and economic development of these areas.  

5.4 Community Development  

Community development/ Poverty reduction sub-Programme consists of the following:-  

• Sakha Isizwe Household Road Maintenance and Construction Programme 
• Urban Renewal Programme and  
• Integrated Sustainable Rural Development Programme  

Sakha Isizwe Household Road Maintenance Programme is a poverty alleviation Programme which targets the poorest of the poor and is aimed mainly at women-headed households. It is adapted from the Kenyan Lengthmen model and contracts a household to maintain a length of road using labour intensive methods. 

5.5 Emerging Contractor Development  

This Programme focuses on wealth and job creation in communities that have been disadvantaged historically. The aim of the Programme is to normalise the construction industry in the Province through a mandated delivery process. This will:-   

• Promote and support affirmable business;  
• Promote access to transport sector;  
• Promote equity in the civil contracting sector; and  
• Promote sustainable business development. This Programme requires the development of a framework to support Emerging Contracts. 

This framework allows for targeted procurements procedures, which are in line with affirmative action policy to address the apartheid legacy and gender discrimination. Contracts are also unbundled to create opportunities at different levels.