Presentation on Integrated Sustainable Rural Development Programme (ISRDP) to Parliamentary Portfolio Committee

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

2. INTRODUCTIONTO ISRDP INTEGRATED SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENTPROGRAMME

3. 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

4. President’s 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

5. O.R TAMBO ALFRED NZO UMZINYATHI UMKHANYAKUDE SEKHUKHUNE EASTERN MUNICIPALITY UKHAHLAMBA CHRIS HANI UGU ZULULAND CENTRAL KAROO MALUTI-A-PHOFUNG KGALAGADI SET OF NODES

6. 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

7. What will the vision address • Economic growth and development • Infrastructure Development • Social Development • Institutional and Delivery CapacityEnhancement

8. Pillars and implementation principles of ISRDP • Integration • Coordination • Decentralisation • Demand-driven • Partnerships • Diversity • Sustainability

9. Key features • Ten-year horizon: 2000-2010 • Targeted nodal and spatial focus • A phased in implementation programme

10. Implementation Framework

11. INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS LONG RANGE PLANNING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT CO-ORDINATION OF DELIVERY STAKEHOLDER MOBILISATION Framework for delivery

12. 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

13. Matching sectoral budgets with IDP needs PROGRAMMES NO & BUDGETS NATIONAL PROGRAMMES & BUDGETS NO IDENTIFIED PROJECTS NODAL PRIORITY PROJECTS

14. Implementation Framework Political Level (1) Who: DPLG as the Government’s 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

15. 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 Implementation Framework

16. 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)

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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