Overview

This practical one-day course introduces the core principles of Labour Intensive Construction (LIC) and the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) in a clear, accessible way. Participants will gain a valuable understanding of how LIC can be used to deliver infrastructure projects while creating meaningful work opportunities and supporting broader socio-economic objectives. Designed for both technical and non-technical stakeholders, the course explains how informed decisions in planning, procurement, finance, human resources, contract administration, and project delivery can strengthen labour-intensive implementation across the full project life cycle. Whether you are directly involved in project execution or responsible for enabling delivery from within your organisation, this course will equip you with the insight needed to support successful, compliant, and impactful LIC projects.

Why Should an Individual Attend?

This course is ideal for individuals who want to strengthen their understanding of labour-intensive delivery and make more informed decisions in support of infrastructure projects that create both technical value and social impact.

• Develop the confidence to engage meaningfully in LIC and EPWP-related projects, even if you are not responsible for technical delivery yourself.
• Improve your ability to contribute to project success by understanding how labour-intensive approaches influence planning, procurement, budgeting, and implementation decisions.
• Enhance your professional value by gaining insight into an approach that is increasingly important in public-sector infrastructure delivery and socio-economic development.
• Be better equipped to support collaboration across technical, administrative, and management functions involved in labour-intensive projects.
• Gain practical context for how infrastructure programmes can be structured to create employment while still meeting delivery requirements.
• Learn from sector-specific experience and examples that make the concepts more relevant, practical, and easier to apply in your working environment.

Outcomes

On completion of this course, the delegate will be able to:

• Explain the purpose, principles, and terminology of Labour Intensive Construction (LIC) and the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP).
• Identify the organisational roles and functional responsibilities that influence successful labour-intensive project implementation.
• Describe how planning, procurement, budgeting, contract administration, and project management decisions affect labour-intensive delivery.
• Recognise the conditions required for LIC projects to achieve both infrastructure outputs and employment creation objectives.
• Interpret the broader policy and development context that makes LIC and EPWP important in South African infrastructure delivery.
• Apply the concepts from the course to support better decision-making, communication, and coordination within their own project or organisational environment.

Program Outline

• History of LIC
• LIC & EPWP
• LIC Terms & Concepts
• LIC applied in the project life cycle
• Benefits and risks
• Roles and responsibilities

Who Should Attend?

• Client
  
  • Finance
  • Senior & Middle Managers
  • EPWP Heads
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Strategic planners
  • Human Resources
  • Administrators/Data Capturers
  • IT teams working on EPWP Data
• Construction Suppliers
  
  • Training service providers
  • LIC related material suppliers
• Consultants (Design/specification/project management)
  
  • Senior & Middle Managers
  • Human Resources
  • Designers/Specifiers
  • Draughtsmen
  • Project administrators
• Contractors / Subcontractors
  
  • Site Agent
  • Contracts Manager
  • QS
  • Foreman
  • Site Clerk
  • Safety Agent/Manager/Office
  • Human Resources
  • Social facilitators