107 There are many other initiatives that government, working with a plethora of social partners, has introduced to deal with the challenge of poverty, unemployment and inequality (some already covered in 3.2.1.3). They are as follows:       The Department of Trade and Industry’s (DTI) provides financial support to qualifying companies in various sectors of the economy, which is offered for various economic activities, including manufacturing, business competitiveness, export development and market access, as well as foreign direct investment; The Finance for Small Businesses and Small Medium Enterprise Development programme, a grant programme offering financial help to tourism-related projects; The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) introduced a complementary agro-processing strategy; The Department of Science and Technology (DST) supports a range of demonstration agronomy and aquaculture projects that utilise new knowledge or technologies in supporting the development of sustainable livelihoods; Assistance is provided to small and micro enterprises and communities that require support for a simplified Environment Impact Analysis (EIA) process as part of Industrial Policy Action Plan 2; The introductions of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) Bill which will help address socio-economic problems like unemployment among the country’s youth. Underlying the Bill is the assumption, based on the experiences of the world's fastest growing economies like China, India and Brazil, that industrial development is key to growing the country's economy and creating employment opportunities, as well as generally bettering the lives of people. The re-industrialisation of the South African economy is central to long-term growth and development strategy to curb poverty, inequality and unemployment. A host of sectoral and cross-cutting initiatives are being implemented under Industrial Policy Action Plan 2 (IPAP 2). IPAP 2011/12-2013/14 was introduced in February 2011 and is being systematically implemented. To support IPAP II, the new Manufacturing Competitiveness Enhancement Programme (MCEP) was introduced in 2012. The programme provides R25 billion over the six years for a variety of programmes. In addition, the Automotive Investment Scheme (AIS) has seen the approval of 92 projects (seven final car producers and 85 component manufactures). The projected investment resulting from these approvals is close to about R9 billion based on incentives of R2, 5 billion, creating over 7000 jobs both directly and indirectly. To deal more effectively with poverty, better coordination between civil society organisations, on the one hand, and between national, provincial and local spheres of government, on the other, is needed. This relates to interventions dealing with poverty and unemployment. Innovative interventions have been made in certain provinces such as KwaZulu-Natal to identify and reach the poorest of the poor so that services are more accessible to them. In KwaZulu-Natal, a Provincial Index of Multiple Deprivation is used to rank wards according to levels of disadvantage scored. This then informs strategies of tackling access to service provision. This kind of evidence-based policy innovation still needs to be widely shared among provinces. 107