About Us
The Social Enterprise Trust (SET) was established to operate on a non-profit basis for the purposes of promoting good public policy and facilitating pilot projects to make the creation of decent work and sustainable livelihood opportunities a reality.
The subsidiary objects of the Trust are to identify, explore, facilitate, propose, create and to support.
Identify
Identify the best initiatives and concepts in South Africa to create decent work/ sustainable livelihoods.
Facilitate
Facilitate public-public and public-private partnerships and funding for a select portfolio of pilot projects that could have the biggest impact on reducing unemployment and poverty.
Create
Influence decision-maker and public opinion to support policies that further the goal of creating decent work and sustainable livelihood opportunities.
Explore
Explore the better practice ideas from around the world that may have sufficient applicability in South Africa.
Propose
Propose to the relevant stakeholders a portfolio of detailed projects and policies to boost employment creation and sustainable livelihoods in South Africa, thus equipping government to implement their unemployment and poverty reducing mandate.
Support
Generally, to establish, support and join in similar activities which in the opinion of the Trustees, further the Trust’s aforegoing principal and ancillary objects.
Our Partners
Our Services
Monitoring priority sectors and employment changes
Working with partners to establish a monitoring system on retrenchments and company closures in a particular sector. Our research team is allocated to monitor CCMA notices, liaise with experts, companies and national unions, and produce relevant reports on job losses in the sector.
Retrenched worker data gathering
Facilitating the gathering of data from each of the retrenched workers. This will involve visits to the affected companies to obtain data prior to closure, individual interviews to fill data gaps, and data quality assurance when entering the data in a central database.
Needs Analysis
On the basis of the data gathered and individual interviews, we establish the needs of stakeholders and align programmes to meet these needs.
Programme delivery
Liaising with employers, unions and regulatory bodies to establish skills development programmes and to project manage their implementation. This will involve managing the processes of registration, programme implementation, grant payments and disbursements, and reporting on implementation.
Formulating of business ideas
Facilitating discussions on ideas for businesses, either taking ownership in existing enterprises or forming new ones.
Value chain analysis
Exploring market opportunities within the value chains of relevant companies. Support will be provided to viable enterprises to assist entry into value chains.
Business plan development
Taking forward viable business plans for investment funding and support will be provided to develop such plans.
Provision of incubator support
Working with our incubator partners, including in-house capacity, to provide mentoring and other forms of support. We currently have a network of 176 incubators and accelerators in South Africa. We facilitate an eco-system that enables various different types of entity to receive the specific type of support needed.
Facilitating investment funding
Assisting in identifying and accessing investment funding for viable businesses. SET has access to impact finance directed at small- and medium-sized enterprises.
Monitoring and reporting on implementation
There is continuous monitoring of progress of individuals and enterprises in programmes so as to enable problems to be identified early and addressed and for all stakeholders to be kept informed of the outputs and outcomes being achieved.
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