Integrated development planning – a strategic tool for embedding sustainable practices in local

1. Integrated development planning – a strategic tool for embedding sustainable practices in local government: the experiences of the eThekwini Municipality, Durban. City Energy Strategies Conference Cape Town, 19-21 Nov 2003

2. Presentation Outcomes 1. Deepened understanding of CDS / IDPs 2. Shared experiences of eThekwini lessons 3. Debate stimulation around energy strategy formulation in relation to IDPs / CDS

3. Presentation Outline • Understanding City Development Strategies • The eThekwini Approach • Relationship between CDS & Energy Strategy • So what?

4. 1. City Development Strategies: some key characteristics • Long term vision for short term action • Collective city vision • Focus on points of leverage • Tool for mobilising resources across city • Targeted involvement of poor communities • Planning across boundaries • Co-ordinated public sector spending

5. IDP (2002-2007)• strategically led• outcomes based• integrated delivery Sustainable path 2. The eThekwini Approach: LTDF+ IDP=CDS LTDF vision 2020 Unsustainable path Current trends

6. eThekwini Strategic Planning Approach

7. Our Long Term Development Framework • Meeting Basic Needs (unwind apartheid legacy) • Strengthening the Economy (build on strengths) • Building skills & Technology (Create the new invest inthe future) STRATEGIC FOCUS AREAS:

8. Our 5 year IDP: some successes • Outlines our city’s five year strategic focus areas within overall LTDF • Strategic, not comprehensive!!! • Not just the city’s planning tool, but an inclusive planning instrument that mobilises support of all city sectors and players • Helps direct city spending in a more strategic way • IDP firmly institutionalised in Council • IDP drives the PMS !

9. Our 5 year IDP: some successes • Entrenching sustainability as part of the way we do business: • IDP Review process re-oriented way we thought about sustainability • Chapter on Sustainable Development was re-written! • Now all Deputy City Managers are accountable for ensuring sustainable practices

10. 3. Relationship between IDP / CDS and our Energy strategy • In the past: started strategic processes by commissioning SECTORAL ANALYSES • We then developed detailed SECTORAL STRATEGIES • Then came the challenge of INTEGRATION! • This was based on a conceptual model of “thinking in parts”

11. 3. Relationship between IDP / CDS and our Energy Strategy (ctd) • We have since learnt that this approach does not work!!! • It is more useful to build in sustainable energy issues as part of the strategic framework • Lets not treat the CDS / IDP process as a separate, but related process – they are not! • Does not mean that a separate Energy Strategy is not necessary, but only that the issue is to be mainstreamed • Examples from eThekwini: • Project on harnessing methane gas • S D F promotes energy efficiency

12. From our SDF: Current trend scenario • development in outlying areas not sustainable • reduction in maintenance/ rehabilitation of infrastructure (need to spend 1.7% of asset value = R868M) 400ha 155ha 135 ha LEGEND Relocation of some 240ha of existing economic activity from currently serviced areas (Inner city & SIB)Take up 10ha pa Housing: In Situ Upgrade Housing: Greenfields Private: Greenfields Residential Economic Development Economic Development Economic Development:Hectares developed per area over 10 years ha

13. SDF Current trends Unsustainable because: • Outward growth forces spending on new platform infrastructure with a high cost : benefit ratio • 20 year population projection – no growth • Contributes to confidence crisis in CBD & SIB • Public transport system becomes non-viable because it is reliant on a healthy CBD and SIB • Not energy efficient – greater carbon monoxide emissions • as a result of poor spatial form • Housing in outlying locations incur high transport subsidy costs, e.g. if a house was located centrally rather than in Mpumalanga, the higher cost of land is offset in 5 to 7 years through savings on transport subsidies

14. Our new Framework to ensure Sustainability High Priority Public Transport Network Urban Edge • Includes 83% of population • Includes entire HPPTN • Includes majority of high density informal settlements • Sewer capacity inside line Urban core • Need to differentiate areas of developmental intervention verses maintenance • Need to identify area of highest level of infrastructure excess capacity for densification at lowest cost Rural/Peri urban• 65% of the municipal area• dispersed settlements• sparsely populated• important environmental services• rich cultural traditions

15. 4. So what ? • From our process in eThekwini, we have learnt that: • the IDP/CDS process affords us an excellent opportunity to mainstream energy issues • If IDP is strategic, has full support of political and administrative leadership, promotes innovation and creativity, then the IDP can be a critical vehicle to achieve aims of sustainable energy strategies • Lets not give the energy strategy a life of is own as a sectoral issue – instead champion it as part of the strategic vision of the city