Organisation: Local Government Sector Education Training Authority (LGSETA)

The Local Government Sector Education & Training Authority (LGSETA) is one of the 23 Seta’s established in terms of the Skills Development Act No 97 of 1998. This SETA has been mandated to make possible the implementation of skills development initiatives and interventions that covers the training and development of local municipal workers, the unemployed, traditional leaders, and ward councillors with the objective of uplifting communities through basic service delivery particularly water and sanitation, provision of housing, a clean environment and all the basic human rights which the state is duty-bound to accomplish.

Our mandate, in its simplest form, is to foster skills development in local government. Of course, achieving that is never as simple as it sounds. Our role is not only to educate, it’s to anticipate future problems and areas for improvement, to enable service delivery, to ensure the right skills are working in the right places, to understand and respond to the implications of new legislation and to pass that knowledge on.

Vision 

To establish the LGSETA as central to the success of enhanced skill development strategies and the development of local government into efficient, frontline development agencies, integrating the activities of all spheres of government for the overall social and economic upliftment of communities through delivery of basic services in particular water and sanitation, housing, a clean environment and all other basic human rights which the State has an obligation to realize.

To bring about more effective co-ordination of capacity building and skills development initiatives between government departments, local government, water agencies and stakeholders and to create synergies between different elements of the development project.

Mission

To promote leadership, skills development programmes and other education interventions to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of:

• Delivery of basic social services;
• Governance and administrative, financial, planning and project management and to develop en ethos of public service amongst all municipal and water institution staff in accordance with the principles of Batho Pele;
• Combating of AIDS, Cholera and other health threats affecting our communities;
• To support employment creation and retention alleviation of poverty, public works programmes, promotion of tourism, SMMEs and other economic growth Sectors through local economic development initiatives;
• To involve all the stakeholders in the sector in the development, implementation and annual evaluation of the Sector Skills Plan;
• To ensure the effective and efficient administration of the LGSETA.