Expected output Required Action as specified in PoA Time frame Progress Unemployment is halved by 2014 Implementation of ASGI(SA) and the Industrial Policy Framework which is being finalised 2014 A new growth path has been introduced to align economic growth and decent job creation. Focus is on those sectors of the economy that are labourintensive. Government launched Phase II of the Industrial Policy Action Plan in February 2010 to accelerate the National Industrial Policy Framework (NIPF) Phase II of the Expanded Public Works Programme was launched in April 2009. Its goal is to create 2 million full-time jobs so as to halve unemployment by 2014. As part of Phase II the Community Works Programme was launched and piloted in 3 districts in the Eastern Cape. Remarks The NIPF sets out government’s industrialization approach The Industrial Development Corporation allocated R6.1 billion to support companies worst affected by the global economic crisis 73