unemployment. The progress registered in the implementation of programmes aimed at reducing unemployment is given hereunder. The Extended Public Works Programme (EPWP) provides poverty and income relief through temporary work for the unemployed. The immediate goal of the first phase of the EPWP, launched in 2004, was the creation of at least one million work opportunities. In the 2010/2011 financial year 607 612 work opportunities and 203 690 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) jobs were created.29 Sixty-two percent (62%) of the beneficiaries were women, fiftyone (51%) were youth and 0.45% were people with disabilities.30 In the 2011/2012 financial year 843 459 work opportunities and 251 127 FTE jobs were created. Of these beneficiaries, sixty percent (60%) were women; fifty percent (50%) were youth and 0, 19% were people with disabilities. The Community Works Programme (CWP) is a government-led initiative aimed at creating employment through social development projects at the local level to supplement existing livelihood strategies by providing regular and predictable work opportunities of at least two days a week or eight days a month. In the 2010/2011 financial year, the CWP recorded a total of 89, 689 participants who benefited from the programme and had been implemented in fifty-six sites (56) across all nine provinces, covering forty-five (45) municipalities and four hundred and seventeen (417) wards country-wide. During the 2011/ 2012 financial year, the CWP created 105 218 work opportunities across the country, in sixty-three (63) municipalities and five hundred and twenty-nine (529) wards.31 Sixty-nine percent (69%) of the participants during this period were women and fifty-four percent (54%) were young people. For the 2012/2013 financial year, government made an allocation of R1, 4 billion to the CWP.32 By the end of October 2012, 114 383 out of 171 500 work opportunities had already been provided.33 Of the work opportunities provided, seventy-one percent (71%) had been allocated to women, fifty-two percent (52%) to young people and 0, 78% to people with disabilities.34 Another important intervention is the Jobs Fund, launched in June 2011, with an initial amount of R9 billion for the first three years. Managed by the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), the Fund aims to enhance employment creation in the country by cofinancing projects by public, private and non-governmental organisations that will significantly contribute to job creation. The Fund considers proposals that perform competitively within the following four areas (also referred to as funding windows), namely: Enterprise Development; Infrastructure Investment; Support for Work Seekers and Institutional Capacity Building. The Enterprise Development funding window aims to lower the cost and risk barriers that inhibit the development of innovative, private sector-led enterprise models, partnerships, ideas and projects that could lead to sustainable job creation. This window looks for 29 30 31 32 33 34 Department of Public Works (2011): Annual Report 2010-2011, government printers, Pretoria. Department of Public Works (2011): Annual Report 2010-2011, government printers, Pretoria. Ibid. Department of Public Works (2011): Annual Report 2010-2011, government printers, Pretoria. Department of Public Works (2011): Annual Report 2010-2011, government printers, Pretoria. Department of Public Works (2011): Annual Report 2010-2011, government printers, Pretoria. 59