SOCIO-ECONOMIC GROWTH AND SERVICE DELIVERY TOWARDS RURAL DEVELOPMENT

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SOCIO-ECONOMIC GROWTH AND SERVICE DELIVERY
TOWARDS RURAL DEVELOPMENT
PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON WATER AFFAIRS AND
FORESTRY, CAPE TOWN PARLIAMENT, OCTOBER 17, 2006
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CONTENTS

• Observations
• Water resources mgt programme
• Forestry programme
• Forestry SA activities
• Concluding remarks

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OBSERVATIONS

• Transformation imperatives challenges
• Leadership capacity issues
• Unpresidented culture of partnerships
• Integration alignment challenges
• Communication information dissemination
  challenges

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WATER RESEARCE MGT

• Water allocation reform
• Logical sequence principal incorrect
• CMA water resource mgt strategies
• Local people decision-making tool
• Reserve determination
• Verification of water use
• Water use charges
• Sensible and realistic approach, i.e. internalise
  environ. costs create incentives

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WATER RESEARCE MGT (CONT.)

• Assistance to resource poor farmers
• Description fundamentally discriminatory biased
• Contravention / incomplete implementation of NWA
  provisions
• Water allocation equity
• Authorisation processes remain a critical
  challenge
• Water allocation yet to contribute to PDIs
  beneficiation

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WATER RESEARCE MGT (CONT.)

• Water management institutions
• Proportion of water users vs government on CMA
  boards
• Unacceptable practice to oblige water users to
  become members of WUAs
• Unlawful water use
• Management of process publicity

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FORESTRY PROGRAMME

• Forest sector transformation
• Sensible approach in drafting charter
• State forestry resources management
• Transferred / leased estates vs land restitution
• Productivity levels of remaining packages
• Sustainable forest management
• Development on NI needed support
• Support for the emerging sub-sector

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FORESTRY PROGRAMME (CONT.)

• Forest sector growth development
• Development of a sector plan
• An afforestaion strategy
• Wattle jungle conversion guidelines
• Genus exchange its administration
• Sawn timber strategy
• Research development
• Skills development

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FORESTRY SA ACTIVITIES

• Strengthening emerging sector organisation
• Small forest enterprises newsletter
• Small forest enterprises workshops
• Emerging timber growers SFM system development
• Small forest enterprise support programme
• Skills development capacity building

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CONCLUDING REMARKS

• Improve leadership capacity
• Develop a sector plan as an organising tool for
  development
• Review expedite SFRA licensing process
• Devise mechanisms for working partnerships
• Put in place communication information
  dissemination mechanism

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