Jobs Fund

Hand in Hand Southern Africa started implementing the Job Creation Through Enterprise Development" which is a partnership project between Hand in Hand Southern Africa and DBSA (Jobs Fund) in 2013. The current HiH SA enterprise development model is premised on the need to create sustainable income generating activities, through addressing four major challenges facing many small-scale enterprises. These include access to resources, markets, skills, and equipment. Our model views poverty alleviation from a progressive perspective involving a series of successive stages commencing with, family-based enterprises maturing to micro-enterprises, before graduating to the small-medium enterprise stages. 

Critical to our model is the realisation that enterprises at different stages of growth require different levels of support and therefore resources  

The project supported the creation of 6 000 sustainable jobs in North West, Kwazulu Natal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga Provinces focusing on supporting micro and small enterprises to develop and grow. We did this through the creation of self-help groups that were the vehicles to enterprise and job creation.