INTEGRATED SUSTAINABLE
RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND
URBAN RENEWAL
PROGRAMMES
26 FEBRUARY 2002
OUTLINE - PURPOSE
• Overview of progress to date
• Challenges for 2002 and beyond
a. Urban Renewal Programme (URP)
b. Integrated Sustainable Rural Development
Programme (ISRDP)
URP - Overview Of Progress
• Undertaken assessment of 8 urban nodes
• Identified political and technical champions
• Establishing provincial and local co-ordinating
structures
• Commenced process of identifying anchor
projects
• Established national Urban Renewal Forum
• DPLG Development Unit, December 2001
• Seconded 3 professionals to DPLG assist with
URP
URP : Urban Renewal
Strategy process
• Target date for final draft: May 2002
• Framework document setting out parameters of
policy under discussion
• Process Plan for consultation being finalised:
– entail various focused workshops and consultations
– occur in parallel to programme management support
to nodes
URP : key challenges
• Poor co-ordination within and across government
• Insufficient funding
• Uneven community community and stakeholder
mobilisation
• Finalise institutional arrangements across all three
spheres
ISRDP - Overview Of Progress
• All nodes have prepared Interim IDPs and are
currently preparing full IDPs
• All nodes have submitted Business Plans.
• All nodes have PIMS centres
• Initial tranche of funding transferred for institutional
capacity building and project initiation (from R65m)
• IDTT structure established, being replicated at
provincial levels
• Partnership with the IDT as a support agent
• Seconded 2 professionals to DPLG Development
Unit to assist with the ISRDP
ISRDP - Report on anchor
projects
• Held workshops in all provinces
• Workshop objectives:
– identify anchor projects
– confirm resources from three spheres for projects
– identify resource gaps
• Attendance at workshops was fair: 11 national depts
participated
• Workshops an exercise inter-governmental planning
and needs prioritisation
• Over 120 projects identified by 13 nodes
• Total value R3.7bn (shortfall R3.1bn)
ISRDP - Summary of Anchor
Projects (Nov 2001)
Total
Total Value Shortfall
Projects (R 000)
(R 000)
Central Karoo
16
37.6
31.6
Thabo Mofutsanyane
11
213.4
102.6
Chris Hani
7
26.5
25.9
Ukhahlamba
7
274.6
223.8
OR Tambo
8
55.4
25
Alfred Nzo
7
49.3
30.1
Ugu
10
246.6
246.6
Umzinyathi
16
160.6
86
Zululand
10
277.6
95.2
Umkhanyakude
13
118.6
86.1
Kgalagadi
10
64.4
20.9
Sekhukhune
14
2036.9
2000.5
Eastern District
7
217.8
186
136
3779.3
3160.3
ISRDP - Thabo Mofutsanyane
•
Projects (11):
–
Water treatment works, electrical substation upgrade,
hospital upgrading, housing (flood victims), commercial
shopping centre, library improvement, tourism route,
commercial cooperative farming project, sports field, arts
and craft market, primary health care package
•
Good spread of projects (infrastructure, economic and
social development)
•
3 projects require no additional funding; 2 projects have
no committed funding
•
Requests for additional funding will be forwarded to all 3
spheres
•
Total value of projects: R213m; Shortfall: R102m
•
Process actively supported by Free State govt
ISRDP - Overall assessment
of anchor projects
•
Projects confirmed through an interactive process
between three spheres
•
Better quality projects where national and provincial govt
actively participated
•
Revealed poor participation of national / provincial govt in
IDP processes
•
Majority of projects identified in (Interim) IDP process
•
General bias towards infrastructure projects
•
Is a spread of projects in terms of:
–
not started - underway - completed
–
infrastructure, social and economic development
–
funding source (3 spheres, parastatals)
ISRDP - strategic issues
•
Political Ownership and Management
•
Consolidated Set of Development Projects
•
Capacity Building at a Local Government Level
•
Role of National and Provincial Departments
•
Integrated Development Planning
•
Budgeting and Planning
•
Stakeholder Mobilisation and Communication
ISRDP & URP - 2002/3
•
No new additional nodes
•
Consolidate work of 2001
•
Focus on implementation of anchor projects
•
Provide direct support to urban and rural nodes
•
Improve planning and resource allocation within
government
•
Secured R400m from equitable share and CMIP
•
Assess commitments from national and provincial
government
•
Ongoing work of special Cabinet Committee to undertake
tasks linked to URP & ISRDP