Glossary

Abbreviations used in LMIS.

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Term	Meaning
18.1 / 18.2	Section 18 of the Skills Development Act: 18.1 learners are already employed; 18.2 learners were unemployed when they started and receive a stipend
Addendum	A signed change to a DG contract: an extension of time, a change in learners, budget or scope, or an apprenticeship's third year - generated in LMIS on the SETA's template
Annexure	The schedule attached to the MOA that sets the tranches, milestones and values of a DG project
ATR	Annual Training Report — submitted with the WSP to report training completed in the previous year
B-BBEE	Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment
Close-out report	The final report on a DG project, submitted when delivery ends; it closes the project on the delivery plan
CAM	Constituent Accreditation Management (assessors and moderators)
Delivery plan	A DG project's eight milestones from evaluation to close-out, with target and actual dates; created automatically for running projects
DG	Discretionary Grant
Cost return	The employer's monthly return of what was spent per learner on a DG project, with proof; only verified learners can be claimed
DHA	Department of Home Affairs (verifies South African ID numbers)
ETD	Education, Training and Development (staff)
ETQA	Education and Training Quality Assurance
HTFV	Hard-to-Fill Vacancy
LA Number	Learnership Agreement number
MOA	Memorandum of Agreement — the DG contract between the SETA and the organisation, signed online with its annexure
My DG project	The learner's own page for a DG project: upload the monthly attendance register and stipend proof (SDP > Facilitation)
Manual payments register	The weekly consolidated list of payments in the queue, on the SETA's manual payment checklist workbook
MG	Mandatory Grant (paid to employers that submit a WSP/ATR)
NLRD	National Learners' Records Database (SAQA)
NSF	National Skills Fund
OFO	Organising Framework for Occupations
PoE	Portfolio of Evidence
Placement report	The employer's letter, on its letterhead, confirming which learners were placed in employment - also the placement evidence for the final tranche
Project Office	The SETA's workspace for running a contracted DG project: learners, plans, cost returns, tranches and payments, files, addendums and alerts
Project portal	The employer's page for a contracted DG project: monthly submissions, tranche deliverables, dropouts, replacements and placements
QCTO	Quality Council for Trades and Occupations
QMS	Quality Management System
Replacement report	A Word report, in the SETA's branding, of each learner who dropped out - date and reason, the replacement learner and QA's decision. It is the document for the Drop-Out/Replacement milestone
Requisition checklist	The SETA's payment requisition and checklist workbook for a tranche, downloaded pre-filled from the Project Office
SDF	Skills Development Facilitator
SDL Number	Skills Development Levy number allocated to an employer by SARS
SDP	Skills Development Provider (training provider)
SETMIS	SETA Management Information System (DHET)
SOR	Statement of Results
SQMR report	A project's learners on the SQMR in Excel, in the NSDP reporting template's columns: entries on the first tranche, completions at close-out. It is the "learner reporting document supplied by SETA"
Sweep	Money taken off a tranche for learners who dropped out and were not replaced
SPOI	Sector Priority Occupation Intervention
SSA	Sector Skills Advisor (SETA contract staff who evaluate DG applications and carry out monitoring visits)
Tranche	One of the instalments a DG project is paid in, released when its milestones and documents are in
TTC	Trade Test Centre
Verification report	A Word report, in the SETA's branding, of every learner on a project with the automatic checks, verification status, who verified them and any open remedial action
WSP	Workplace Skills Plan

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