KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government

1. KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND TRADITIONAL AFFAIRS MUNICIPAL INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PLANSMARCH2006 DURBAN

2. OBJECTIVES OF THE SESSION • TO DISCUSS THE CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL CONTEXT OF IDPs • TO CLARIFY THE IDP CONCEPT AND PROCESS • TO INFORM ON THE IDP PROCESS AND FRAMEWORK PLANS • TO HIGHLIGHT THE ROLEPLAYERS OF THE IDP PROCESS • TO DETERMINE THE WAY FORWARD FOR IDPs IN MUNICIPALITIES

3. CONTENTS OF PRESENTATION • CONSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR IDPs • IDP: CONCEPT AND PRODUCT • PROCESS AND FRAMEWORK PLANS • IDP ROLEPLAYERS AND STRUCTURES • THE WAY FORWARD

4. CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR IDPs

5. SPHERES OF GOVERNMENT INTERDEPENDENT INTERRELATED NATIONAL PROVINCIAL LOCAL DISTINCT COOPERATIVE

6. POST 1994 SPHERES OF GOVERNMENT NATIONAL SERVICE DELIVERY FUNCTIONS LOCAL SERVICE DELIVERY FUNCTIONS PROVINCIAL SERVICE DELIVERY FUNCTIONS NATIONAL PROVINCIAL LOCAL

7. THE PROVINCE OF KWAZULU-NATAL

8. CONSTITUTION SECTION 152 The objectives of local government: • To provide democratic and accountable govt • To ensure the provision of services in a sustainable manner • To promote social and economic development • To promote a safe and healthy environment • To encourage the involvement of communities and community organisations in local govt

9. CONSTITUTION SECTION 153 A municipality must: • Structure and manage its administration and budgeting and planning process to give priority to the basic needs of the community, and to promote the social and economic development of the community; and • Participate in national and provincial development programmes .

10. RELEVANT LEGISLATION AND POLICIES (1) • Constitution, Act 108 of 1996 • Municipal Systems Act, Act 32 of 2000 • Municipal Structures Act, Act 117 of 1998 • White Paper on Local Government, March 1998 • Municipal Finance Management Act, Act 56 of 2003 • Ward Committee Hand Book and Resource Book, 2006

11. RELEVANT LEGISLATION AND POLICIES (2) • The Development Facilitation Act (DFA), Act 67 of 1995 • The National Environmental Management Act (NEMA), Act 107 of 1998 • The National Land Transportation Transition Act, Act 22 of 2000

12. RELEVANT LEGISLATION AND POLICIES (3) • Spatial aspects: • The White Paper on Spatial Planning and Land Use Management, 2001 • The National Land Use Management Bill • The National Spatial Development Perspective (NSDP)

13. DRAFTING, REVIEW AND AMENDMENT OF IDP • MSA makes provision for: • DRAFTING: • Every 5 years: broadly covers Council term of office • REVIEW: • Annual review • Submit to MEC for assessment • AMENDMENT: • Well motivated amendments, as and when required

14. IDP: CONCEPT, PROCESS, PRODUCT

15. WHAT IS AN IDP? • A single, inclusive and strategic plan giving direction to all Development Initiatives • Identifies Development and Service Delivery priorities for whole municipality • Supports optimal allocation of scarce resources • Forms basis for National, Provincial and Municipal Budgeting alignment (DORA and MTEF)

16. IDP Minimum requirements • Vision for long term development • Assessment of existing level of development • Development priorities and objectives, incl. LED aims and internal transformation needs • Dev. strategies, aligned with national or provincial sectoral plans and binding planning requirements • SDF, incl. LUMS guidelines • Operational strategies • DMP • Financial plan, incl. budget projection for at least the next 3 years • KPIs and performance targets

17. PRINCIPLES OF IDP • Participatory • Structured and systematic • Strategic, focused, priority-driven • Optimises scarce resources • Action and delivery orientated • Inter-sectoral, co-coordinating, aligning and integrating

18. IMPACT OF MUNICIPALITY WITHOUT IDP • No strategic management tool • No development vision, programmes and projects • Ad hoc project implementation • Lack of budget alignment • Meaningful IGR impossible • No community participation in needs identification • Co-ordination and monitoring of planning and development impossible

19. UNCOORDINATEDDEVELOPMENT

20. INTEGRATED/COORDINATED DEVELOPMENT IDP

21. SECTORALPLANNING Horizontal integration WELFARE IDP MUNICIPAL AREA OF IMPACT: SDF, LUMS, BUDGET, OPMS

22. IDP PROCESS INTEGRATION AND ALIGNMENT PHASE 1: ANALYSIS PHASE 2: STRATEGIES PHASE 0: PREPARATIONS PHASE 3: PROJECTS PHASE 7: M&E & ANNUAL REVIEW PHASE 4: INTEGRATION PHASE 6: IMPLEMENTATION PHASE 5: APPROVAL

23. IDP CONTENTS VISION, STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES AND SPATIAL FRAMEWORK WELFARE WATER & SANITATION ROADS TRANSPORT HEALTH EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT HOUSING LEGAL & POLICY FRAMEWORK INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK AGRICULTURE CONSERVATION LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PUBLIC WORKS INTEGRATED RURAL DEVELOPMENT URBAN RENEWAL STRATEGY LAND REFORM SPATIAL PLANNING & LAND USE MANAGEMENT PERF. MGT. SYSTEM BUDGET & OTHER RESOURCES

24. SPATIAL PLANNING SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK: “A framework that seeks to guide overall spatial distribution of current and desirable land uses within a municipality in order to give effect to the vision, goals and objectives of the municipal IDP”

25. SPATIAL PLANNING MANAGEMENT • SDF with: • Spatial policies • Spatial action areas • Implementation plans for programmes and projects • Land Use Management Schemes and by-laws • Transportation Plans • Landscape Management Plans

26. SDF AND LUMS • SDF sets context for Scheme • Scheme facilitates implementation of SDF • Scheme give rise to and manages rights pertaining to land use and development

27. STRATEGIC BUDGETING IDP Priorities driving the budget Strategic Financial Decision-making Forward Financial Planning Regularly challenging the status quo

28. FRAMEWORK AND PROCESS PLANS

29. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FRAMEWORK AND PROCESS PLANS PROV IDP MGT PLAN ALIGNMENT DM FRAMEWORK PLAN IDP REVIEW BUDGET OPMS DM PROCESS PLAN LM PROCESS PLAN IDP PHASES ANALYSE PREP ANALYSE STRATEGIES PROJECTS ALIGNMENT APPROVAL PREP ANALYSE STRATEGIES PROJECTS ALIGNMENT APPROVAL STRATEGIES PROJECTS ALIGN APPROVE IMPLEMENT M&E PREP

30. RELATIONSHIP DISTRICT AND LOCAL IDPs • All municipalities prepare IDPs • DM IDPs give strategic direction for “family of municipality IDPs” • DM and LM IDPs drafting process to be co-ordinated • DM and LM IDPs contents to be aligned and in support of each other, e.g. DMs SDFs informs LMs SDFs and vice versa

31. IDP ROLEPLAYERS AND STRUCTURES

32. PROPOSED ORGANISATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS Council Executive Committee/Mayor or Appointed Councilor Office of the Municipal Manager IDP Steering Committee IDP Representative Forum Stakeholder Structures Ward Committee Project Task Team

33. MUNICIPAL COUNCIL (1) • Political decision-making body of Municipality, Council: • Considers and adopts DM Framework and Process Plan • Considers and adopts LM Process Plan • Determines project prioritisation criteria • Considers, adopts and approves the IDP and IDP Reviews

34. MUNICIPAL COUNCIL (2) • Critical Generic IDP dates: • March - June 2006: Finalises and adopts 2006/07 IDP Review • July - Sept 2006: Finalises DM Framework and Process Plan for new IDP • March: Submits draft IDP/budget to Treasury and LGTA • June: Council adopts new IDP

35. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Senior governing body of the Municipality: • Responsible for overall management, co-ordination and monitoring of the process and drafting of the IDP • Approves nominated persons to be in charge of different roles, activities and responsibilities of the process and drafting

36. WARD COUNCILORS • Link between municipal government and residents: • Link the planning process to their constituencies and/or wards • Responsible for organizing public consultation and participation

37. VALUE OF IDPS FOR COUNCILORS • Guide priority ward/community needs identification • In Council decision-making on: • Vision, strategies, programmes, projects and budget of municipality • Implementation and monitoring • Decision-support tool to argue in favour of decisions on IGR, budget alignment & priority projects at meetings

38. WARD COMMITTEES • Ensure community input in IDP • Participate through ward committee chair in IDPRF • Consist of ward representative members and ward councilor

39. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORKERS AND IDPs • Promote community participation in IDP activities such as meetings and projects • Disseminate information to communities on IDP drafting/review and implementation status • Co-ordinate sectoral integration • Give feed-back on community needs to inform IDP drafting • Assist with monitoring and evaluation of projects

40. ROLE OF MUNICIPAL/IDP MANAGER • Chairs IDP Steering Committee • Prepares Framework and Process Plan • Overall management and co-ordination of IDP process • Responds to comments on IDP documentation • Avails documents to inform IDP process • Promotes involvement of all stakeholders • Adjusts IDP according to MEC proposals

41. IDPSTEERING COMMITTEE • Technical and Secretarial support to IDP Representative Forum • Commission research studies • Considers and comments on inputs from task teams / sector departments and from service providers • Takes guidance from the IDPRF • Drafts IDP document, i.e. processes, summarize and document outputs • Makes content recommendations • Appoints project / task teams

42. IDP REPRESENTATIVE FORUM COMPOSITION • Executive Committee • District Council Councilors • Ward / Citizens Committees • IDPSC members / HOD’s • Traditional Leaders (where applicable) • Organized groups / business • Chaired by ExCo member or nominated councilor

43. RESPONSIBILITIES OF IDPRF • Guides / directs IDPSC • Represents community / citizens interests • Mechanism for discussion, negotiation and decision making • Ensures communication between and among stakeholders • Monitors performance of the planning and implementation process

44. THE WAY FORWARD

45. IDPS: THE WAY FORWARD

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