1. Product Improvement Project
2. Support Programme for Tourism and Crafts
3. Small Scale Industry Promotion for Women's Group

Programme: Women's Enterprise Initiative Programme (Product Improvement Project)

Project Title:Product Development Programme for UGU Region, Southern Kwa Zulu Natal

Objectives:

To enhance and compliment this area's rich diverse culture, through its promotion to it's fullest on a national and international level, through craft development.

To boost the economy of this area and to provide a platform to display a community that has become self-sustainable through the development of craft skills.

Commission Date: 25^th November 1997

Completion Date: 31^st March 1998

Province: Southern Kwa Zulu Natal

Strategic Partner: Embocraft Training Centre Trust and People, Arts, Culture and Education Centre (PACE)

Programme: Women's Enterprise Initiative Programme (Product Improvement Project)

Project Title: Masiphatisane Producers Network

Objectives:

To build the capacity of Masiphatisane Producer Network by providing training in, product development and design, marketing, costing and pricing of products and project management training.

To develop a monthly monitoring and evaluation system, which will include volume of sales, number of job created, new markets, new products introduced and production scales.

Commission Date: 20^th March 1997

Completion Date: 28^th December 1997

Province: Eastern Cape

Strategic Partner: Eastern Cape Rural Industries

Programme: Women's Enterprise Initiative Programme

Project Title: Product Improvement Project

Objectives:

To provide participants with skills training programme that will result in the establishment of sustainable micro enterprise among youth and women groups.

Commission Date: 4^th February 1998

Completion Date: 30^th April 1998

Province: Kwa Zulu Natal and Gauteng

Strategic Partner: Foundation for Entrepreneurship Development (FED)

Programme: Women's Enterprise Initiative Programme

Project Title: Product Improvement Project

Objectives:

To develop full product range, including textiles and basket weaving products and to design a catalogue. To develop full marketing plan for local and export strategy and production plan.
To provide information, e.g. materials, technologies, market and sales information.

Commission Date: 1^st August 1997

Completion Date: 30^th January 1998

Province: Gauteng

Strategic Partner: Talking Beads

Programme: Women's Enterprise Initiative Programme

Project Title: Support Programme for Tourism and Craft

Objectives:

To establish two model village/homestead accommodation facilities on the Wild Coast area. To train local people in appropriate management and other specific skills required making the community tourism and related enterprise successful. To establish the local and sub-regional structures necessary for linking the tourism and crafts business to the Wild Coast Spatial Development Initiative (SDI) and other macro economic level interventions.

Commission Date: 1^st April 1997

Completion Date: 31^st March 1998

Province: Eastern Cape

Strategic Partner: Pondo-Community Resources Optimisation Programme (Pondo-Crop)

Programme: Women's Enterprise Initiative Programme (Small Scale Industry Promotion for the Women's Group)

Project Title: Women and Youth in Construction

Objectives:

To implement the pilot skills training programme in construction / building industry for women and youth on behalf of Gugulethu Community Development Corporation (GCDC).

Commission Date: 29^th March 1997

Completion Date: 4^th June 1998

Province: Western Cape

Strategic Partner: Building Industries Federation South Africa (BIFSA)

Programme: Women's Enterprise Initiative Programme

Project Title: Small Scale Industry Promotion for the Women's Group: Helen Joseph Development Centre

Objectives:

To complete skills audit and finalise business plan for the Helen Joseph Development Centre, Uppington in the Northern Cape.

Programme: Women's Enterprise Initiative Programme (Small Scale Industry Promotion for the Women's Group)

Project Title: Developing a Catalogue for Collective Marketing of Products from Selected Micro Enterprise Groups

Objectives:

The funding will be utilised for the purpose of developing a catalogue for the selected micro enterprise groups, i.e. Bone and Horn Carvers, Ngezandla Zethu, Siloe and Manyesini Blind Schools, Embocraft (which incorporates the Jozini Sewing Group).

Commission Date: 25^th March 1998

Completion Date: 30^th April 1998

Province: Kwa Zulu Natal

Strategic Partner: P.E.A.C.E Foundation