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RED TAPE REDUCTION GUIDELINES FOR RESOURCE POOR MUNICIPALITIES Free State Province Infrastructure and Economic Development. Presentation on 24 Priority District Municipalities 25 March 2014. Cabinet Unveils 12 Implementation plans ( For Immediate Action) Action Plan 6 24 DMs identified
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RED TAPE REDUCTION GUIDELINES FOR RESOURCE POOR MUNICIPALITIES Free State Province Infrastructure and Economic Development Presentation on 24 Priority District Municipalities 25 March 2014
Cabinet Unveils 12 Implementation plans (For Immediate Action) • Action Plan 6 • 24 DMs identified • Current Process • Wayforward
DEPT OBJECTIVES • Focus RTR on Resource Poor Rural Municipalities • Mobilise available economic development support through RTR • Foster Collaboration with Private Sector • Institutionalisation of RTR at Local Government Level
BACKGROUND • Cabinet Unveiled 12 Implementation Plans for Immediate Action • Action Plan 6 (Scaling up Rural Development Programmes • DRDLR and Presidency for Overseeing the Programme • 24 Resource Poor DMs (18 million people) • High levels of Poverty; Service Constraints; high levels of Unemployment; Low levels of Economic Development
CURRENT PROCESSES • Provincial Workshops in all 9 provinces • Cogta has Adopted the Guidelines • Cogta and SALGA will monitor the Implementation
WAYFORWARD • Guidelines Implementation Championed by HOD • RTR Guidelines workshopped at LG level • Institutionalisation of the RTR