South Africa has a rich and diverse social economy that has thrived for decades and offered tremendous value to communities. This includes a host of community-based organisations such as NGOs, hospices, creches, community kitchens, faith-based organisations and others in civil society. These organisations play a highly active and important part in augmenting the role of the state in addressing challenges related to health, education, gender-based violence, nutrition and more. It is mainly these organisations that the Social Employment Fund partners with.
The Social Employment Fund (SEF) is managed by the Industrial Development Corporation. Since it’s inception just over one year ago, over 65,000 people have been provided with meaningful work in a number of areas which benefit communities as a whole. Tackling unemployment needs a ‘whole of society’ approach however.
