Key short- to medium-term interventions include the following. Firstly, there are the increased public employment programmes that target people excluded from mainstream economic activity or formal employment, particularly in rural areas, informal settlements and townships. This contributes to an employment safety net and is a form of employment guarantee.
Secondly, there are the youth employability programmes.
Thirdly, there are active industrial and sectoral development strategies to support labour-absorptive sectors and sectors in distress, while encouraging exports as well as localisation.
Fourthly, there is financial and nonfinancial support to small, medium and micro enterprises, SMMEs, and co-operatives in the formal and informal sectors of the economy.
Fifthly, we have pilot projects that focus on green jobs and green technology investment in the areas of energy efficiency, waste management and rural agricultural development and food security; and sixthly, increased strategic, socioeconomic and bulk infrastructure investment, encouraging infrastructure-led growth and effective spatial planning that unites the economy.
Furthermore, the infrastructure investment needs to focus on developing the necessary networks that bring people in the province closer together and address the backlogs in service delivery.
Thus, much like the national department, the Gauteng provincial department of economic development aims to promote a vision of an inclusive and sustainable Gauteng economy that promotes a developmental and equitable society, hon Sinclair. This is to be achieved through a series of short-, medium- and long-term interventions that will set Gauteng on an endogenous growth path that will create decent jobs and enterprise opportunities in an economy that is innovating, inclusive and green. I thank you. [Applause.]