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FRAMING OF TRANSFORMATION AND INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT ISSUES

KPA: Municipal Transformation and Institutional Development Nontsundu Ndonga Chief Town and Regional Planner 30 April 2013. FRAMING OF TRANSFORMATION AND INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT ISSUES. Broad subject

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FRAMING OF TRANSFORMATION AND INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT ISSUES

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  1. KPA: Municipal Transformation and Institutional DevelopmentNontsundu NdongaChief Town and Regional Planner 30 April 2013

  2. FRAMING OF TRANSFORMATION AND INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT ISSUES • Broad subject • Municipalities need to understand what constitute transformation and institutional development in their context; (not always clear in IDP documents) • COGTA IDP guidelines can be used as a benchmark but are not exhaustive

  3. SOME POINTERS • Municipal Transformation and Institutional Development (examples) • Graduate internship (municipalities can have their own and not only wait for national government instructions) • Learning exchange / visiting missions between municipalities • Meaningful twinning agreements

  4. SOME POINTERS CONT… • Municipal Transformation and Institutional development (examples cont…) • Systems and Procedures • Mandatory issues e.g.(gender and racial representativity) • Research on emerging issues – responsive to change (e.g. demarcation implications) these are hardly mentioned in the IDP documents – (there is a need to plan ahead in this regards).

  5. IDP ASSESSMENT OBSERVATIONS • Packaging of information • Mix of good governance issues and municipal transformation and institutional development issues • Analysis of the KPA highlights key issues but these are not taken through to strategic interventions and vice versa • Some IDPS are very silent on mandatory transformation issues (gender and racial representativity and targets relating to people with disabilities)

  6. IDP ASSESSMENT OBSERVATIONS CONT… • Organogram and powers and functions just tabulated without analysing them by way of giving implications (does the organogram respond to Powers and functions = service delivery) • Some IDPs bluntly ignoring the guidelines, but not giving any convincing storyline in this KPA • Some IDPs gave a analysis of this KPA and a comprehensive SWOT (municipalities are encouraged to benchmark within the family) • Lack of clarity on municipal capacity and priority skills needed and the prioritisation thereof • Emerging issues e.g. response to climate change, demarcation issues hence the question about environmental management HR capacity.

  7. RECOMMENDATIONS • Use the COGTA IDP guidelines to stimulate thinking and creativity • Intermunicipal co-operation • Be clear about key transformation and institutional development issues • Make use of DPSS and pronounce on it in IDP • Be able to answer the questions: • “can the centre hold?” Critical post hold the centre • Is the municipality able to deliver on its mandate (organogram vs. service delivery plans/interventions) • Municipal systems and procedures- are they responsive to service delivery? “Are we the Hedgehogs or Foxes”. (We are challenged by lack of capacity but we still employ the same ordinary recruitment strategies or even better retention strategies and succession plans exist in our thinking and in paper but not in practice) • Strategic interventions need to be bold, imaginative yet workable.

  8. THANK YOU Nontsundu Ndonga Chief Town and Regional Planner Business Unit: IDP Coordination Tel: +27(0) 31 204 1822 Fax: +27(0) 31 204 1813 E-mail: nontsundu.ndonga@kzncogta.gov.za Website: www.kzncogta.gov.za

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