Sport and Recreation Infrastructure Provision and Management

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Sport and Recreation Infrastructure Provision and
Management

• SRSA FUNDING MEETING
• KOPANONG
• 15 MARCH 2008

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

• Strategic intent
• Institutional arrangements
• Funding trends
• Recent surveys and federations data
• Norms and standards
• Federations and facilities
• ? and Conclusion

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SRSA VISION

• Striving to create an active and winning nation

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SRSA MISSION STATEMENT

• To improve the quality of life of all South
  Africans, foster social cohesion and enhance
  nation building by maximizing access, development
  and excellence at all levels of participation in
  sport and recreation

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PRIMARY OBJECTIVE

• To broaden the base of South African sport within
  an integrated development continuum.
• Build basic sport facilities according to an
  approved National Sports Plan

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PREMISE

• Participation in recreation and sport is a right
  not a priviledge
• The practice of physical education and sport is
  a fundamental right for all. Article 1 of the
  International Charter of Physical Education and
  Sport (UNESCO, 1978)
• As part of the commitments to promote healthy
  lives and providing quality education, world
  leaders at the United Nations Special Session on
  Children in May 2002 agreed to
• Promote physical, mental and emotional health
  among children, including adolescents, through
  play, sports recreation, artistic and cultural
  expressions.
• Provide accessible recreational and sports
  opportunities and facilities at schools and
  communities. (A World Fit for Children, 2002)
• A child in Sport is a Child out of Court Late
  Mr Steve Tswete, Minister of Sport and Recreation

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PREMISE

• Sport is a universal language that can bring
  people together, no matter what their origin,
  background, religious beliefs or economic
  status. Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General
• Noted Resolutions of the Africa International
  Sports Convention, Dakar Senegal, February 2007
• Transformation of South African sport is
  dependent on a holistic sport development
  programme which requires appropriate sports
  infrastructure as a critical means to enable for
  access, talent identification and acceleration of
  athletes from disadantaged backgrounds

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DIRECTORATES GOALS

• To provide appropriate infrastructure in order to
  advance sport and physical activity in
  communities across the country while addressing
  critical health challenges and strengthening
  South African communities
• To ensure that South Africans regardless of the
  level at which they participate, have access to
  quality sport and recreation facilities
• To ensure that all human settlements have access
  to sport and recreation facilities
• To ensure that appropriate sport and recreation
  facilities are constructed. Taking into
  consideration issues such as accessibility,
  sustainability, safety and user friendliness

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DIRECTORATES GOALS

• To ensure that sound spatial planning principles
  as they impact on sport and recreation facilities
  provision are adopted
• To ensure that different types and categories of
  sport and recreation facilities are clearly
  defined
• This includes parks, open spaces, playlots etc.
• To ensure formulation and or development of cost
  effective and innovative ways of providing and or
  constructing sport and recreation facilities

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DIRECTORATES GOALS

• To ensure introduction of new planning
  approaches, creative design features and up to
  date construction techniques into facility
  development and rehabilitation of projects
• To improve the quality of playing fields and
  facilities

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SRSAS INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT
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COORDINATION

• SRSA coordinates all activities with Provincial
  Facilities Coordinators
• Provincial Facilities Coordinators coordinates
  activities with the municipalities
• SRSA have decentralized coordination
• Workshops with municipalities, sport and
  recreation structures and relevant community
  structures
• Liaise directly with municipalities on specific
  matters
• Liaise with sport and recreation structures needs
  to be improved

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FUNDING TRENDS OVER THE LAST SEVEN YEARS

• BSRP projects 2001 2004
• Total cost of BSRP project
• MIG projects completed since 2004
• Total cost

• 364
• R377 039 242
• 45
• R74 776 232.74

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COMPARISON BETWEEN BSRP AND MIG PROJECTS
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SPORT AND RECREATION FACILITIES SURVEYS AND AUDITS

• 3000 sport and recreation facilities units
  identified through the audit in municipalities
• Education Management Information System reveals
  that there are 56 000 sport and recreation
  facilities units in schools
• This caters for 5-19 age cohort
• Concentrated in advantaged areas (urban)
• In disadvantaged areas exists low level 4 (scrape
  facilities)
• R1.5bn to R2bn required to rehabilitate exist
  stock
• R10bn over 5 years to provide new infrastructure
  to satisfy full level of service (level 2 and 3
  indoor and outdoor facilities with adequate
  services such as ablutions and lighting)
• To cater for inclusive 5-34 age cohort (including
  20-34 cohort not neglecting the cohort above 34)
• There is minimal need for level 1 facilities

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SPORT AND RECREATION FACILITIES SURVEYS AND AUDITS

• 117 of 231 municipalities surveyed
• 58 of municipalities surveyed indicated a way to
  determine need but used a structure measure
• 30 of municipalities surveyed have facilities
  open to any user, no booking, no control.
• 36 do not charge for use
• 55 have leases ranging in length from 3-99 years
• New leases generally 9 years and 11 months
• Leased facilities found to be better maintained
  than unleased

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SPORT AND RECREATION FACILITIES SURVEYS AND AUDITS

• An assessment of the BSRP projects (17 projects
  sample) revealed that
• 44 of facilities were poorly maintained
• Lack of finance and human skilled human resources
  were primary reasons cited
• Another reason was that in 50 of the cases the
  Implementing Agent was the District Municipality
  and there was no proper planning for OM and
  handover to Local Municipalities

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SPORT AND RECREATION FACILITIES SURVEYS AND AUDITS

• 75 of the facilities were reported to be poorly
  utilized
• Poor location of the facility in relation to the
  community and lack of sports promotion
  programmes were cited reason for non utilization
• In line with the poor utilization 62 of
  facilities were reported to be poorly managed

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OTHER DATA SOURCES

• SRSA Internal Data Validation Survey
• Data gathered from municipalities and sports
  federations on existing and required facilities
• Department of Public Works Utilization and
  Contracts Unit
• State Properties
• Surveyor-General
• Project Gijima State Land Audit to be completed
  in March 2008

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FEDERATIONS SUBMITTED FACILITIES NEEDS

• Gymnastics
• Golf
• Swimming
• Cycling
• Cricket
• Tennis
• Athletics
• Shooting

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NORMS AND STANDARDS

• Final draft has been presented for assessment by
  the unit
• The norms and standards sets the minimum
  standards for provision and management of sport
  and recreation facilities
• Sets minimum spatial planning requirement in line
  with national framework and best practices in
  town planning

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NORMS AND STANDARDS

• Develop design guide to help local authorities to
  provide quality sports and recreation facilities.
• Formulate procedure for development and
  construction of sport and recreation facilities
• This sets a step by step guide and requirements
  for the process of constructing a sport and
  recreation facility. (For example, needs
  assessment, feasibility study, a declaration
  which specifies the intended use of the facility,
  technical report outlining the way the facility
  is going to function, construction plan of the
  facility including topography of the area,
  architectural study and a comprehensive technical
  report on the construction materials and works
  with special focus on method of construction.
• Develop sport and recreation facilities
  information management protocols and guidelines.
• Develop facilities maintenance and operating
  guidelines and protocols (life cycle maintenance
  system)

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NORMS AND STANDARDS

• Develop appropriate estimated unit costs or
  indicative costs for each facility type taking
  into account the limitations due to such factors
  as geographic location of the project etc.
• Develop guidelines for estimating
• Planning and feasibility costs
• Capital project implementation costs
• Operating and maintenance costs over at least ten
  (10) years post project completion

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FEDERATIONS AND FACILITIES

• Sports structures do not exist in most areas
• Where they exist they are not functional
• Sport structures do not participate in municipal
  planning processes
• Sports structures are not involved with the
  management of programmes within the facilities
• Hence facilities are not properly managed,
  maintained and utilized

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• Should funding for sport and recreation
  facilities be left within the MIG or should the
  BSRP be revived?
• What would be the best way of identifying and
  providing sport and recreation facilities needs?
• Who should be the custodians of community sport
  and recreation facilities (municipalities or
  sport and recreation structures)?
• Operating
• Maintenance
• Programming
• How should tariffs be structured?

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• Should facilities be leased?
• How can long term leases be dealt with?
• How can the involvement of sport and recreation
  structures in facilities provision and management
  be improved?