South to pilot skills audit
SDB to pilot programme to address skills shortages.
A MUNICIPALITY skills audit is to be piloted in the South Durban Basin (SDB) to discern skill shortages and gaps in economic potential.
The decision to launch a community skills audit programme was taken a meeting of the executive committee on Tuesday, 25 August.
ccording to the municipality’s communications unit, which is heading this programme with the municipal academy, it will “determine existing and deficient skills in communities to enlighten under-utilised human capital which can be re-invested into creating a viable local economy. The audit will also pinpoint areas in which training and education are needed so that suitable interventions can be developed and implemented.”
After the pilot has been completed in the SDB, the programme will be rolled out to the rest of the municipality. Over the course of three months, data will be collected, which will then be fed into the municipal database information system.
“There are deficit skills in the municipality and it is incumbent to do a skills audit in the community. We have to build the local economy and to do that, you have to invest. When you invest, it is important to invest in people,” said chairman of the finance and procurement committee, Fawzia Peer.
