DEPARTMENT: RURAL DEVELOPMENT & LAND REFORM
Comprehensive Rural
Development Programme:
the concept
Presentation to the Select Committee on Land and
Environmental Affairs
Mr T T Gwanya
Director-General: Department of Rural Development
and Land Reform
25 AUGUST 2009
PURPOSE
To
inform
participants
about
the
Comprehensive
Rural
Development
Programme (CRDP) concept and the
proposed approach for its implementation.
To invite participants to interrogate the
concept and to engage constructively in the
Green Paper process.
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DEPARTMENT: RURAL
DEVELOPMENT & LAND REFORM
OUTLINE
The Department of Rural Development and
Land Reform (DRDLR) has developed the
CRDP.
The CRDP requires active participation by all
stakeholders.
Rural people must take the centre stage in the
improvement of their own quality of life.
The design of the Programme is predicated on
lessons learnt from pilot sites (Muyexe Village,
Giyani and Riemvasmaak, Northern Cape).
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DEPARTMENT: RURAL
DEVELOPMENT & LAND REFORM
DISCUSSION
The strategic objective of the CRDP is to
achieve social cohesion and development
among rural communities.
The CRDP hinges on a three-pronged
strategy:
• co-ordinated and integrated broad-based
agrarian transformation;
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• an improved land reform programme; and
• strategic investments in economic and
social infrastructure.
DEPARTMENT: RURAL
DEVELOPMENT & LAND REFORM
AGRARIAN TRANSFORMATION
Agrarian transformation is seen as the rapid
fundamental change in the relations of land,
livestock, cropping and community.
The change of attitude by development
workers and rural people themselves is
critical in defining these relations.
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DEPARTMENT: RURAL
DEVELOPMENT & LAND REFORM
AGRARIAN TRANSFORMATION
cont.
 Some of the objectives of the agrarian transformation
strategy include but is not limited to:
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• Facilitating the establishment of business initiatives,
rural and agro-industries, co-operatives, cultural
initiatives and vibrant local markets;
• the empowerment of rural communities to be self-reliant
and able to take charge of their destiny;
• the development of a mitigation and adaptation strategy
to reduce vulnerabilities with special reference to climate
change, erosion, flooding and other natural disasters;
and
• the use of appropriate technologies, modern approaches
and indigenous knowledge systems;
DEPARTMENT: RURAL
DEVELOPMENT & LAND REFORM
AGRARIAN TRANSFORMATION
cont.
• increased production and sustainable use of natural
resources:
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– Livestock farming and related value chain development
(exploring all possible species for food and economic
activity); and
– cropping and related value chain development
(exploring all possible species, especially indigenous
plants, for food and economic activity);
• strengthening rural livelihoods for vibrant local economic
development. A livelihood is the means of living that rural
people build through access to and use of the assets they
need for this purpose; and
• food security, dignity and improved quality of life for each
rural household.
DEPARTMENT: RURAL
DEVELOPMENT & LAND REFORM
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Rural development focuses on, but is not limited
to:
• The establishment of rural business, agroindustries, co-operatives, etc.;
• the empowerment of rural people and
communities; and
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• the revitalization of old and creation of new
economic, social, and information and
communication infrastructure, public amenities
and facilities in villages and small rural towns,
etc.
DEPARTMENT: RURAL
DEVELOPMENT & LAND REFORM
RURAL DEVELOPMENT cont.
 Some of the objectives of the rural development strategy
include but is not limited to:
• Social mobilization to enable rural communities to take
initiatives;
• establish savings clubs and co-operatives for economic
activities, wealth creation and productive use of assets;
• access to resourced clinics;
• non-farm activities for strengthening of rural livelihoods;
• leadership
training,
social
facilitation
and
conscientisation for the CRDP and socio-economic
independence;
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DEPARTMENT: RURAL
DEVELOPMENT & LAND REFORM
RURAL DEVELOPMENT cont.
• democratization of rural development, participation and
ownership of all processes, projects and programmes;
• co-ordination, alignment and co-operative governance
(Local municipalities, traditional councils, provincial
government);
• participation of Non-Governmental Organizations
(NGOs) including faith-based organizations, Community
Based Organisations (CBOs) and other organs of civil
society; and
• social cohesion and access to human and social capital.
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DEPARTMENT: RURAL
DEVELOPMENT & LAND REFORM
LAND REFORM
Land reform focuses on reviewing the Restitution,
Redistribution and Tenure Reform Programmes.
All land reform programmes must therefore be
linked to the CRDP.
The establishment of the new Department of Rural
Development and Land Reform has also reconfirmed Government’s commitment to revitalise
and develop rural areas and that land should be
seen as a catalyst for poverty alleviation, job
creation, food security and entrepreneurship. The
revised land reform strategy will include:
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DEPARTMENT: RURAL
DEVELOPMENT & LAND REFORM
LAND REFORM cont.
• Picking up the pace of land redistribution through:
– Increased access to land by previously disadvantaged
people, through the redistribution of 30% of white-owned
agricultural land; and
– Reviewing the land reform products and approaches.
• Review of land acquisition processes.
• Establish a special Land Commission for an audit of privately
owned agricultural land.
• Put mechanisms in place to ensure that land is used
productively.
• Provide for the effective development and beneficiation of
land reform beneficiaries.
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• The categorization
allocation.
of
beneficiaries
through
targeted
DEPARTMENT: RURAL
DEVELOPMENT & LAND REFORM
LAND REFORM cont.
 TENURE REFORM
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• Fast-tracking the settlement of labour tenancy claims, especially
in KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga.
• Facilitating secure access to land by farm dwellers.
• Protecting the land rights of farm workers, and creating decent
jobs on farms.
• Dealing effectively and promptly with illegal evictions, which
includes access to legal representation.
• Establishing agri-villages for local economic development on
farms.
• Providing basic needs for farm dwellers, including water,
sanitation, electricity, housing, etc.
• Dealing effectively with State land administration.
• Providing effective support to and capacity building of farm
dwellers.
• Implementation of the Communal Land Rights Act, 2004
(CLaRA).
DEPARTMENT: RURAL
DEVELOPMENT & LAND REFORM
LAND REFORM cont.
 RESTITUTION
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• Increasing the pace of settling outstanding land restitution claims
by:
– Providing an analysis of outstanding claims (nature and type)
and indicating related challenges;
– adopting a developmental approach to the settlement of
restitution claims and its contribution to the CRDP;
– defining the strategy of dealing with land claims in the Land
Claims Court, and ensuring that these are “winnable and
strong cases” thereby setting a good precedent; appealing
cases that may set bad precedent and shortening the
protracted processes.
– Ensuring sustainability, beneficiation, and contribution to
poverty eradication, economic growth and employment
creation as well as the vibrancy of land restitution projects,
going forward.
DEPARTMENT: RURAL
DEVELOPMENT & LAND REFORM
EMPLOYMENT CREATION MODEL
Central to the three-pronged strategy is an
employment creation model.
Para-development specialists to train and mentor
selected unemployed community members. Using
the Extended Public Works Programme (EPWP)
principles. Muyexe: e.g. secure 1 job per household
(900 jobs).
Phase One (incubator) - meet basic needs.
Phase Two - entrepreneurial development.
Phase Three -small, micro and medium enterprises
and village markets.
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DEPARTMENT: RURAL
DEVELOPMENT & LAND REFORM
CRDP MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
MINISTER OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND LAND REFORM
DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND LAND REFORM
Programme Development, policy and legislation development and
Co-ordination
Stakeholder
commitments
OFFICE OF THE PREMIER
CRDP Champion (MEC with rural development function)
COUNCIL OF STAKEHOLDERS
(Organs of civil society, government, business, co-operatives, ward
committees beneficiaries, workers, community development workers,
traditional institutions, etc.)
Household Co-operatives & other enterprises (groups of 20)
Stakeholder
commitments
Conditionalities,
code of conduct
& disciplinary
panel
SOCIAL COHESION AND DEVELOPMENT
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DEPARTMENT: RURAL
DEVELOPMENT & LAND REFORM
IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
The CRDP requires a co-ordinated strategy.
Refinement of the CRDP will continue
through
selected pilots in the eight
provinces.
Pilot phase expected to run for a minimum of
two years.
The CRDP will then be scaled up from the
initial pilot sites into other sites nationally but
linked to the overall planning frameworks
within a province.
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DEPARTMENT: RURAL
DEVELOPMENT & LAND REFORM
ORGANISATIONAL AND PERSONNEL
IMPLICATIONS
New mandate led to alignment: organisational
arrangements between DRDLR and other
government departments and institutions [e.g
Department of Co-operative Governance and
Traditional Affairs released the Integrated
Sustainable Rural Development Programme
(ISRDP) staff complement to the DRDLR].
Ministries of Public Works, Water and
Environmental Affairs, Transport & Social
Development have pledged support. War Room
on Poverty provides additional co-ordination.
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DEPARTMENT: RURAL
DEVELOPMENT & LAND REFORM
IMPLICATIONS
Financial: The DRDLR reprioritized R505
million from its current budget for the design
and pilot stage. Government departments and
civil society’s commitments have not been
finally quantified.
Communication: being developed.
Vulnerable groups: targeted.
Constitutional: None. Rural Development is a
concurrent national and provincial competency
but legislation would need to be created.
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DEPARTMENT: RURAL
DEVELOPMENT & LAND REFORM
CONCLUSION
The CRDP was officially launched in
Muyexe, Giyani on 17 August 2009.
Our vision is to see vibrant and sustainable
rural communities; the CRDP is the vehicle
that will take us there.
We require commitment and co-operation
from our stakeholders.
We will use available resources, but
additional Budget is required.
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DEPARTMENT: RURAL
DEVELOPMENT & LAND REFORM
“
Working together we can do more to
improve the quality of life for all our people
living in rural areas”
Thank you!
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DEPARTMENT: RURAL
DEVELOPMENT & LAND REFORM