Summary of Proceedings

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Summary of Proceedings

• Durban ICC, 12-14 July 2006

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Emerging Areas of Focus

• A critical reflection on the notion of the
  Developmental State and its role in social
  transformation and growth
• Capacity and macro-organization of the state
  across the delivery value chain
• Creating access to economic opportunities as part
  of the broad package of 1st and 2nd economy
  interventions
• Strengthening meaningful/optimal citizen
  participation and access to services
• Making local government work

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On the Developmental State

• Develop a common understanding of the
  Developmental State and its role
• Facilitative, interventionist and proactive
• Seeks to achieve coherence and integration across
  the entire machinery of government
• Seeking a strong community voice in the
  developmental agenda programming
• Fights poverty and social deprivation and creates
  economic opportunities
• Balancing the notion of a strong strategic and
  coordination centre and the delivery capability
  at the local level
• There is a need for adopting a different approach
• Fostering innovation
• Providing thought leadership
• Capacity to support thought leadership
• The capability of the organs of state to
  coordinate and forge a common vision in the
  delivery of a better life for all

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Macro-organization and Capacity of the State

• Creating a single public service
• Integrated service delivery
• Seamless citizen access to government, with
  efficient front-end and back-end processes
• Harmonization of human resource practices and
  conditions of service
• Enhancing the system of intergovernmental
  coordination and building delivery capabilities
• Strengthening capacity to systemically monitor
  and evaluate the impact of government programmes
  (Govt.-wide ME System)
• Repositioning the public service to make
  significant contribution to the achievement of
  ASGISA objective

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Capabilities to deliver shared Economic Growth
and Development

• Repositioning the public service to make
  significant contribution to the achievement of
  ASGISA objectives
• Implementing models for the delivery of high
  impact projects to accelerate economic growth
  (the cases of Dube Trade Port and Gauteng Blue
  IQ)
• Addressing human capability constraints to
  achieve shared economic growth (JIPSA
  intervention)
• Need for strengthening capabilities to achieve
  targets for 2014 (Millennium Development Goals

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Access to Economic Opportunities

• Concept of integration and coordination that
  focuses on local development (Prof. Schlemmer)
• Need to empower emerging participants in the
  economy
• Stimulation of local economic development from
  the bottom up, with support provided to emerging
  business
• Facilitating direct access to middle class
  markets by emerging businesses and entrepreneurs

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Access to Economic Opportunities

• Sustain communication campaigns on economic
  opportunities to enhance access for communities
  (successes by GCIS and NDA)
• Creating multiple access channels to economic
  opportunities
• (MPCCs, LED structures, SEDA Offices, Youth
  Advisory Centres/ Enterprise Support Centres,
  CDWs)
• Accelerate the delivery of youth empowerment
  programmes

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Access to economic opportunities

• Strengthening local government LED strategies
• Accelerating land reform, post settlement support
  and agricultural development
• Developing strategic linkages for market access
  to the emerging entrepreneurs in poor rural
  communities (The case of reviving rail lines)
• Addressing spatial development disparities
  through the roll-out of rail network in deep
  rural areas
• Enhance effective support to cooperatives

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Entrenching Public Participation in a
Developmental State Context

• Failure of community participation models call
  for a need to interrogate assumptions that we
  have about community participation and
  development models Mannenberg Case
• Questioning the notion of an imagined
  community as key to development in the context
  of the community that is dysfunctional
• Collapse of family as essential feature of the
  community creates a problems of dysfunctional and
  unstable communities (Dr Chipkin)
• There is a need to focus on rebuilding
  communities and democratic forums that attract as
  many people as possible to foster democratic
  participation and consultation

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Entrenching Public Participation in a
Developmental Context

• Effective use of community participation
  structures to enhance consultation and
  accountability (structured participation)
• Develop mechanisms to involve communities from
  conception to implementation to promote
  meaningful participation
• Roll-out of civic education so that communities
  understand how government works (know your rights
  campaigns)
• Sustained implementation of the citizens charters
  for improved service delivery (social contract)
  the KZN Case of the Citizen Charter)
• Leveraging technology tools to enhance
  accessibility of public services, and improve
  service delivery

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Access to Social Safety Net Services

• Enhancing the positive impact of social grants
  necessary in a developmental context
• Creating a developmental state or welfare state?
• Social grants as short term intervention, with
  focus on creating opportunities for economic
  empowerment to reduce dependence on social grants

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Towards a Housing service Delivery Model

• Strengthening institutional systems and
  collaborative efforts among different role
  players in the housing delivery value chain (the
  case of Breaking New Ground)
• Achieving shorter delivery cycles, eliminate
  bottlenecks and accelerate the delivery of
  housing to fight poverty and underdevelopment
• Implementation of a housing delivery model that
  responds to human settlement patterns and
  addresses apartheid spatial development
  distortions

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Local Government Service Delivery

• Entrenching the concept of developmental local
  government
• Addressing issues of capacity of local government
  to deliver services (the case of Siyenza Manje by
  DBSA, Project Consolidate interventions)
• Delivering targeted interventions to support
  municipalities, especially rural municipalities
• Enhancing the quality of information for
  decision-making to inform support interventions
  in local government

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Municipalities as local economic development
impact zones

• Leveraging the economic potential in competitive
  sectors of the economy
• Addressing apartheid distortions in the space
  economy of municipalities through targeted
  infrastructure investments, especially in
  previously disadvantaged areas
• Attracting private sector investments and
  participation in local economic development and
  job creation
• Making contribution to the achievement of ASGISA
  objectives

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