WESTERN CAPE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE Dialogue Session 7

1. WESTERN CAPE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE Dialogue Session 7 POVERTY DIMENSIONS, CHARACTERISTICS AND INDICATORS PRESENTATION BY MS VL PETERSEN 21 JUNE 2005

2. DEVELOPMENTAL CHALLENGES • Lack of Social Cohesion • High Levels of unemployment, • High Crime rate and gangsterism, • Early school leaving rate, • Disintegration of family units, • Arrest of children and child abuse cases , • High levels of substance abuse, dependancy and trafficking

3. POVERTY: CURRENT SITUATION • INEQUALITY AND POVERTY INCREASING IN THE PROVINCE • 1.8 MILLION PEOPLE DEFINED AS POOR IN TERMS OF LACK OF FOOD, INCOME, SHELTER, ACCESS TO BASIC RESOURCES • APPROX. 700 000 INDIVIDUALS IN 382 000 HOUSEHOLDS IN PROVINCE RECEIVING SOCIAL SECURITY SUPPORT • WHAT PROCESSES EXIST TO ENABLE THE REMAINING 1.1 MILLION POOR TO IMPROVE THEIR LARGELY SURVIVIALIST SOURCE(S) OF INCOME (SECOND ECONOMY) – THIS IS THE TARGET GROUP

4. The poverty definition in the Western Cape is conceptualised within the following parameters or dimensions: • Security and Peace of mind • Gender Relations • Institutions • Social Relations • Capabilities • Vulnerability • Spatial • Physical • Income and Assets

5. GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY • 8 Pillars of iKapa Elihlumayo (Die Kaap wat Groei) • Building human capital • Social capital formation • Strategic infrastructure plan • Micro economic development strategy • Spatial development framework • Communication and marketing • Improving financial governance • Improved Inter-governmental co-ordination

6. INTEGRATING THE IKAPA ELIHLUMAYO PILLARS MEANS THAT • Meds focus is on bee, entrepreneurship, smmes, job creation (assumption of higher level of skill) & focus on locations and their potential for growth (spatial targeting) led – second to first economy • Spatial Development plan focus is on social and spatial targeting - scoping & analysis exercise • Human Capital development focus is on education and skills development – social targeting • Social Capital focus is on building local social networks • Strategic Infrastructure investment – build assest capital • Local Government indigent policy/free basic services and scoping

7. SOCIAL CAPITAL CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS • institutions, relationships and norms that shape quality and quantity of society’s social interactions and enables collective action • based on trust and shared values that enables exchange of goods and services in a reciprocal relationship

8. SOCIAL CAPITAL CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS • glue that holds society together • a larger base of networks enables better management of challenging situations • types: • Bonding:homogenous groups • Bridging:brings together people across social divides; based on common values, reciprocity and trust • Linking:vertical dimension; trust on larger scale

9. INTERVENTIONS • Embedded in human rights approach • Deepens Democracy • Increased access to networks and resources that facilitate “scaling up” • Increased capacity of the poor to leverage resources, ideas and information with formal institutions

10. INTERVENTIONS • MOU’s with local government to effect cooperative and seamless government • Inclusion of intended beneficiaries in programme design, implementation and monitoring • Support to local economic development • Synergy with Ikapa Elihlumayo, HRDS, MEDS and SIDP • Inwent poverty reduction programme- groups of 35

11. OUTCOMES • Income, assets and livelihoods • Proportion of household whose income, asset and livelihoods have transform them from poor to well being self reliance; reduced dependence on social security • Education, human capacity and skills • Enrolment at ECD centres; reduced number of dropouts; Food security at schools; enrolment in tertiary institutions- gender breakdown; Number of young people with appropriate /work related skills

12. OUTCOMES (continued) • Basic municipal services • Number of families on indigent /Safety net programme; proportion of users paying for services-Civic responsibility; • Housing, land and infrastructure development • Quality of Human settlements; Number of households having access to land; ability to use land as leverage; Access to water for farming purposes and Mari culture

13. OUTCOMES (continued) • Transport, roads infrastructure • Number of rural communities enjoying efficient public transport services; Safety on public transport in urban areas; • Condition of roads; number of rural communities where access to services has been improved by new or improved roads;

14. OUTCOMES (continued) • Health and nutrition • Impact of nutrition programmes • Number of households whose nutrition and health has improved over time • Inclusion rights and social protection • Public awareness about rights and legislation; awareness of roles in service delivery; Living conditions

15. OUTCOMES (continued) • Empowering vulnerable groups • Number of disabled on social security, employed and have access to services and necessary equipment; Number and improved living conditions of child headed households;Number of groups and communities mobilsed for self reliance-litsema/vukuzenzele

16. OUTCOMES (continued) • Employment, opportunity and work • Number of young people absorbed in the work place; Number of women employed • Security and peace of mind • Drop in crime rate, drop of intake in places of safety and prison; Increase of youth doing civic responsibility, volunteerism; social capital strengthened, Community regeneration; Populous enjoying effective service delivery

17. THANK YOU DANKIE ENKOSI