Urban Governance
Francis Matita
Monitoring and Evaluation
Manager
Presentation Outline
•Governance Problems of interest to
Tilitonse
•Understanding Urban Governance
•Highlighting specific Governance issues
in Urban Governance
•Potential projects in urban governance
•Link to Tilitonse Desired Results
Governance Problems of interest to Tilitonse
• The cities are unable to exercise the development control, planning and
infrastructure development (due to a number of constraints)
• In the urban sector-structures for community level social organization
and collective action efforts are not clear/not existing/non
functional/not well organized in conflict to provisions in local
governance act.
Understanding Urban Governance
• Relates to a set of activities that together shape and
guide the social, physical and economic development
of urban areas.
• Components of the system that make possible the
daily functioning of a city
• Political and administrative structures of cities and
major challenges they face to provide both social and
physical infrastructure.
• Currently governed by the Town and Country Planning
Act of 1988 – largely top down and aimed at
modernizing the landscape
Specific Governance Issues
• Issues relating to stakeholders: with competing &
conflicting interests (these are councils, politicians,
chiefs, ward councilors, city, MHC).
• Local Government Act – generic and unsuitable to
urban setting: formulated with the rural setting and
provides structure not relevant to city councils.
• Political interference: politicians override decision
made by technocrats, failure to implement design
standards,
• Limited financial capacity: limited jurisdiction over
resources and revenue collection compromised by
political figures that evade payments.
Specific Governance Issues - continued
• Multiple and competing jurisdiction: chiefs controlling part of the
land, companies controlling most of the city land e.g. 40% of BCC
belongs to Lonhro, Malawi Railways and Mandala.
• Non existence/non functionality of the provided urban structure –
block leaders, councilors, community development committees AND
lack of leadership.
Invitation for potential projects
• Projects aimed at lobbing for harmonization of the Town and
Country Planning Act to the Local Government Act –
ensuring presence of elaborate institutional framework to
provide strategic guidance for development processes.
• Projects aimed at working on community level structures for
collective action- focusing on the role of key stakeholders,
ward committees, boundaries and tenure of office for the
structures.
• Projects aimed at improving land markets – strengthening
capacity of local councils on land management and adopting
participatory urban planning.
• Projects aimed at widening civic engagement – expanding
spaces for civic spaces for citizens to constructively engage
with authorities e.g. town hall meetings.
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Expected Results- Impact Level
Impact : Equitability, transparency and inclusiveness of
institutions targeted for change in funded projectsChanges to target Govt.
• Transparency: Mining thematic call projects (transparency and
responsiveness in mining). ATI Bill-Govt/Local government
openness on information requests and level of proactive
disclosure (transparency in managing LDF/CDF/Urban
Revenue).
• Equitability: Revision of the Local Government Act/ Town and
Country Planning Act .
• Inclusiveness: Women Inclusivity Thematic Call, Projects on
rights of the disabled, Youth representation.
Expected Results- Outcome Level
Quality of engagement between civil society and government around funded
projects.
• Grantee/CSO use of political economy analysis to inform decision-making
(Mining, Access to Information, Local Governance).
• Grantee/CSO use of strategic partnerships to increase access and influence
(Coalitions in Mining and Local Governance).
• Grantee/CSO playing an effective mediation/ coalitions role between citizens
and target Govt. agencies (Urban Governance Thematic call- looking at roles
of various stakeholders and citizen participation)
Expected Result- Output
• Output 1: Capacity of funded partners in key
functions Financial Management, M&E and
Gender AND Political Economy (Local
Governance Thematic Call).
• Output 2: Access to information on rights,
entitlements and responsibilities improved
particularly for poor and excluded citizens
including through the media (Projects
involving the media and IEC).
• Output 3: Monitoring by Malawian
organizations
of
policy
and
budget
commitments, service delivery and public
resource management strengthened (FISP,
implementation of the FISP/LDF/CDF).
• The engagement of Malawian organizations in
influencing policies, strategies and resource
allocations at local and national levels
improved (ATI Bill, Guidelines on CDF, School
Improvement Grant).
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