PRESENTATION TO THE PARLIAMENTARY PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS

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• PRESENTATION TO THE PARLIAMENTARY PORTFOLIO
  COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS
• 18 Feb 2004
• CAPE TOWN

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INTRODUCTION TO ISRDP

• INTEGRATED SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

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OBJECTIVES

• To present current status quo on ISRDP
• To outline challenges of implementation
• Issues raised in the nodes
• To outline what have been the roles and
  responsibilities of various stakeholders in the
  implementation management of the ISRDP
• To outline challenges in the nodes

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Presidents State of the Nation Address 2001

• Programme of action
• Prioritize micro economic issues
• Sustained campaign against poverty and
  underdevelopment
• Local Government as the focal point for
  coordination
• Announced 13 nodes

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SET OF NODES

• O.R TAMBO
• ALFRED NZO
• UMZINYATHI
• UMKHANYAKUDE
• SEKHUKHUNE
• EASTERN MUNICIPALITY
• UKHAHLAMBA

• CHRIS HANI
• UGU
• ZULULAND
• CENTRAL KAROO
• MALUTI-A-PHOFUNG
• KGALAGADI

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Vision of the ISRDS

• To attain socially cohesive and stable rural
  communities with viable institutions, sustainable
  economies and universal access to social
  amenities, able attract and retain skilled and
  knowledgeable people who are equipped to
  contribute to growth and development

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What will the vision address

• Economic growth and development
• Infrastructure Development
• Social Development
• Institutional and Delivery Capacity Enhancement

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Pillars and implementation principles of ISRDP

• Integration
• Coordination
• Decentralisation
• Demand-driven
• Partnerships
• Diversity
• Sustainability

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Key features

• Ten-year horizon 2000-2010
• Targeted nodal and spatial focus
• A phased in implementation programme

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Implementation Framework
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Framework for delivery
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Key focus areas 2001

• Strengthen and focus existing rural development
  programmes
• Build district and local institutional capacity
• Utilise Seed Funding to gear additional
  resources, e.g., Special Budget Allocation and
  the Infrastructure Fund
• Mobilise communities to influence the processes
  and outcomes
• Define programmes and projects through the IDP
  processes thus ensuring re-alignment of national
  and provincial departments budgets to demands at
  the local level
• Match economic potential and social needs of the
  programmes and projects identified
• Measure outcomes impact

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Matching sectoral budgets with IDP needs
NATIONAL PROGRAMMES BUDGETS
PROGRAMMES NO BUDGETS
NO IDENTIFIED PROJECTS
NODAL PRIORITY PROJECTS
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Implementation Framework

• Political Level (1)
• Who DPLG as the Governments custodian
• Who Technical champions at the provincial level
• Role Co-ordination of government and
  stakeholders
• Product Ensuring the supply of technical and
  financial resources is in place
• Political Level (2)
• Who Nodal Champions at National, Provincial and
  Local level of governance
• Role to lobby and leverage additional resources
  for their nodal priorities
• Product Regenerate politically and socially
  through a localized community campaigns and
  better delivery to communities

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Implementation Framework

• Implementation Level (1)
• Who IDT and DPLG and provincial departments of
  LG
• Role Integrating and managing the nodal
  implementation
• Product Facilitating delivery through
  articulating demands from the communities to the
  suppliers of resources
• Implementation Level (2)
• Who District and Local municipalities
• Role Utilising the resources
• building systems
• build, strengthen and enhance institutional
  capacities
• implementation of programmes and projects
• Product Ensuring delivery of services to the
  communities efficiently and effectively

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What has been put in place to facilitate
delivery

• PIMSS for planning and reviews (IDPs)
• NDT for implementation (kick start implementation
  whilst institutions are being built and enhanced)
• IDT for management of implementation
• Regional offices of local Government for
  management of Planning support resources
• Other partners (these initiatives should be
  co-ordinated at the nodal level to ensure that
  there are no parallel processes)

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Context for considering achievements and
challenges

• The ISRDP nodes were announced in February 2001,
  while the current local government demarcation
  started in Dec-2002
• First three years thus directed at implementation
  planning and delivery capacity building

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Current realities and achievements

• IDPs in place and periodically reviewed
• List of anchor/priority projects in place
• National and Provincial Interdepartmental Task
  Team and IDP forums in place to manage IDP
  implementation
• R5m grant was allocated to each node to support
  implementation
• Consolidation of CMIP, DWAF and Public Works
  grants into MIG
• Translation of Strategy to a Programme through
  Programme design document (PDD)
• IDT designed and piloted Local Area Planning
  methodology

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Current realities and achievements

• Community ownership vehicles in place e.g Trust
  in Kgalagadi
• Local development agency established in one node
  to facilitate coordination
• One node (Central Karoo) Vuna Award

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Broad challenges of ISRDP

• Budgets and programmes of sector departments not
  universally aligned with IDP and provincial
  growth and development strategies
• Huge infrastructure backlogs still exist in a
  resource scarce environment.
• Extremely low or non existent revenue base in
  many municipalities
• Institutional capacity still a big challenge