Welcome to Business Trust
The Business Trust combines the resources of business and government to create jobs, build capacity and combat poverty. The Business Trust believes that by working together, much more can be achieved than by independent action.
Resources are mobilised from companies operating in South Africa to support programmes that accelerate the achievement of agreed national objectives. Since 1999, over 140 companies have committed more than R1,2bn to the Business Trust.
Shared Growth Challenge Fund
The Shared Growth Challenge Fund aims to harness and leverage the private sector's capacity for innovation, investment, risk-taking and growth, to facilitate the inclusion of poor people who have been historically excluded from participating in and benefiting from the formal economy.
The Fund invites business proposals from private companies for projects that combine profitability with high social impact. Through the provision of matched funding, the R35million encourages established businesses to extend their core activities in ways that benefit the poor.
To learn more about the fund, click here.
Impact of Global Economic Crisis on BPO
The Business Trust has commissioned a report on the impact of the economic crisis on Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and the impact for the South African outsourcing industry. To download the report, click here.
Ready to Compete - SA's capabilities in the Financial BPO Sector
The Financial Services sector constitutes the largest segment (about 45%) of the global outsourcing industry. South Africa's standing in this sector is world class. The sector presents a significant opportunity for firms building offshore global delivery networks.
This report was commissioned by the Business Trust to provide potential investors with fine-grained information to support the business case for investing in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Financial Services in South Africa. Click here to download the summary report.
Ready to Work - Summary of BPO training programme
The Monyetla Work Readiness Programme was designed by the Business Trust to accelerate training for entry level jobs within South Africa?s growing Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry.
An inception programme, which set out to train 1 000 unemployed South Africans for work readiness as entry level BPO agents, was run during 2008. The learners achieved an 86% success rate in the skills programme, and 90% of these competent learners were placed in employment. Click here to download a summary of the Monyetla Work Readiness Programme.
