MISA's Technical Support and Capacity Building for Municipalities

1. MISA’s State Readiness to Provide Technical Support and Build Technical Capacity in Targeted Municipalities

2. INTRODUCTION • MISA is a dedicated government component established under the Ministry of CoGTA with the mandate to provide technical capacity support and assist municipalities to build their internal capacity for improved delivery and management of infrastructure and service provision. • MISA’s programmes focus on supporting mainly low and medium capacity municipalities that continue to struggle with the development and maintenance of infrastructure and service provision. • Support to identified municipalities focusses mainly on the provision of basic services such as water and sanitation, energy, waste management , as well as roads and storm-water • Implementation of MISA’s programmes is guided by government’s key policy imperatives such as the National Development Plan (NDP), New Growth Path, Strategic Integrated Projects (SIPs).

3. Presentation Outline • Introduction • Overview of the Municipal Infrastructure Support Agent • Municipal and Sectoral Support Business Model • Current Support • Alignment of Technical Support with Back to Basics Approach • Capacity Development Programme Objective • Focus Areas for Capacity Development Programme • Benefits of Support to Municipalities • Conclusion

4. OVERVIEW OF MISAInstitutional Form • The establishment of MISA to accelerate the provision of municipal infrastructure is informed by the Feasibility Study report compiled in September 2011. • MISA was established by Presidential Proclamation 29 of 2012, which was gazetted on the 11th May 2012, in terms of section 7(5) (c) of the Public Service Act. • The establishment of MISA was one of the key thrusts of the Local Government Turnaround Strategy (LGTAS) aimed at creating a dedicated vehicle to support and build technical capacity in local government for the improvement of municipal infrastructure provisioning, refurbishment and maintenance; • Anticipating the establishment of MISA, government took a decision to unbundle SiyenzaManje with the infrastructure component transferred to CoGTA and financial management component transferred to National Treasury, with effect from 01 April 2011. • MISA is operationally ring-fenced from the Department of Cooperative Governance, but linked to it for policy implementation purposes. • The head of MISA is the Accounting Officer in terms of the Public Finance Management Act, No.1 of 1999, as amended. • MISA has been allocated its own operational budget of R820m over the MTEF period, with R262m allocated for 2013/14 FYand R294m in 2014/2015 financial year.

5. OVERVIEW OF MISACore Mandate MISA has a two-pronged mandate can be summarised as follows: • To render technical advice and support in order to optimise municipal infrastructure provisioning and management. • To coordinate the development and implementation of programmes designed to strengthen the capacity of municipalities for planning, development, operations and maintenance of their municipal infrastructure. It is not within MISA’s mandate to provide grants to municipalities for either infrastructure projects implementation or the costs of maintaining and refurbishing such infrastructure. Its mandate is to give technical assistance to enable municipalities to perform these functions effectively.

6. KEY PROGRAMMESOverview of Key Support Programme • Municipal and Sectoral Technical Support – to ensure that MISA provides technical support to those municipalities that require assistance with technical aspects of infrastructure planning, implementation, operation and/or maintenance. Support provided is based on a needs assessment and agreement with municipalities. This buy-in from municipalities is essential for ownership and sustainability of support initiatives. And alsoensures that resources from different departments and institutions are properly coordinated to address sectoralpriorities towards eradication of service backlogs in water and sanitation, energy, solid waste management and roads and storm water. This programme also supports municipalities to ensure effective utilization of grants, especially the Municipal Infrastructure Grant. • Capacity DevelopmentProgrammeensures that technical capacity is developed in local government for planning, delivering, operating and maintaining municipal infrastructure. Capacity development is implemented through various programmes, including apprenticeships, young professionals, experiential learning and rotating key municipal officials to the private sector and academia for exposure. Bursaries are made available for studies in built environment, especially engineering, to build a pipeline of future technical officials for municipalities. The programme also provides mentorship opportunities for technical officials in municipalities to meet the requirements for professional registration. Working in partnership with other public institutions, private sector companies, tertiary institutions and professional bodies forms an important part of MISA’s capacity development strategy.

7. Municipal and Sector Technical Support (MSTS) Business Model

8. MUNICIPAL SUPPORT STATISTICS

9. TECHNICAL RESOURCES PER PROVINCE

10. MISA Focus Areas of Support – Engineering and Project Management • PMU and Project Management Support to fast track MIG expenditure • Contract Management, O&M Support • Basic Water & Sanitation Services Support • Audit of existing infrastructure projects • Bulk Water Supply – Planning & Construction of Regional Water Scheme • Exploration and development of boreholes for water extraction • Maintenance and refurbishment of water purification works • Revamping of ageing infrastructure • Funding Model for Waste Water-Roads-Electrical-Water Infrastructure • O&M Support • Infrastructure Master Plans to ensure sustainable infrastructure development • Integrated Waste management Plans • Dolomite Risk Strategies, • Water and Sanitation Asset registers • Environmental Impact Assessments • Geo-technical Studies

11. MISA Focus Areas of Support – Sector and Development Planning (incl. Town Planning) The following planning support is currently provided to various municipalities in nine (9) provinces through MISA Planners and Professional Service Providers (PSPs). • Infrastructure Master Plans (water, sanitation, energy, solid waste and roads & storm water) to ensure sustainable infrastructure development • Spatial Development Plan Reviews • Water Conservation and Water Demand Management • Land-use Management Systems • Water Conservation and Water Demand Management • Infrastructure Asset Registers, • Infrastructure Asset Management Plans • Operations and Maintenance Plans • By-laws (Technical and Town Planning) • IDP Review Feasibility Studies and Project Preparations are undertaken at a project pre- implementation level by MISA Technical Consultants and PSPs supporting various municipalities

12. CURRENT SUPPORTMunicipalities Receiving Support

13. CURRENT SUPPORTMunicipalities Receiving Support

14. CURRENT SUPPORTMunicipalities Receiving Support

15. CURRENT SUPPORTMunicipalities Receiving Support

16. CURRENT SUPPORTMunicipalities Receiving Support

17. ALIGNMENT OF MISA’S TECHNICAL SUPPORT WITH BACK TO BASICS APPROACH • As part of improving on readiness to address felt needs of communities, MISA has adopted a method of providing support through District Teams as well as resident engineers where required. • The Team comprises Sector Specialists on water, sanitation and energy as well as Generalist on Roads & Storm-water and solid waste and project management. • A dedicated Multi-Disciplinary Team of Engineers, Planners & Project Managers is being established within each of High Priority Districts . • The Team will focus on municipal support through the whole project life cycle i.e. planning (incl. feasibility studies), procurement, design, implementation, commissioning, operations and maintenance • MISA has also established a Programme / Project Management Office (PMO) that coordinates the management of programmes and projects implemented in municipalities through MISA technical support • As part of provincial technical support, MISA will assign engineers to provide technical support to provinces for appraisal of technical reports and evaluation of project designs where required. .

18. Improvements on Support Provided to Municipalities CoGTA - MISA PMO Provincial CoGTA MIG Units District Teams Direct Delivery Interventions Local Municipalities Local Municipalities Local Municipalities

19. MISA Contracting Process with Service Provider

20. MISA Process Flow in Managing PSPs

21. MISA Process Flow in Managing PSPs- cntd

22. MISA PSP – Governance Structures

23. CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT PRGRAMME Programme Objective: To build capacity of municipalities to under take effective planning, delivery, operations and management of municipal infrastructure.

24. FOCUS AREA: KEY SUPPORT PROGRAMMES • Capacity DevelopmentProgrammeensures that technical capacity is developed in local government for planning, delivering, operating and maintaining municipal infrastructure. • Capacity development is implemented through various programmes, including apprenticeships, young professionals, experiential learning and rotating key municipal officials to the private sector and academia for exposure. • Bursaries are made available for studies in built environment, especially engineering, to build a pipeline of future technical officials for municipalities. • The programme also provides mentorship opportunities for technical officials in municipalities to meet the requirements for professional registration. Working in partnership with other public institutions, private sector companies, tertiary institutions and professional bodies forms an important part of MISA’s capacity development strategy.

25. TECHNICAL SKILLS NEEDS

26. HUMAN RESOURCE AND BUDGETARY REQUIREMENTS • Human resource requirement to meet the projected support to municipalities: • 1 Head Capacity Building • 1 Director (Not in the structure) • 2 Deputy Directors • 4 Assistant Directors • 1 Administrative Officer • 1 Secretary • The personnel budget implication is R6M

27. NUMBER OF MUNICIPALITIES SUPPORTED • 60 Municipalities are currently being supported across 9 provinces • With the projected request, one third of the municipalities can be supported • Our priority is low and middle capacitated municipalities • In line with the Back to Basics approach one third of the municipalities are dysfunctional and therefore need various support initiatives • The above one third municipalities would be supported, making it 108 municipalities

28. SUPPORT BENEFITS TO MUNICIPALITIES • The mandate of the programme is to built technical institutional capacity through various sub-programmes: • Artisan Development Sub-Programme • The targeted number of the apprentices being recruited for the 2014/2015 financial year is 350 under the following skills set: • Electrical • Plumbing • Bricklaying • Fitter and Turner • Motor/Diesel Mechanic

29. SUPPORT BENEFITS TO MUNICIPALITIES • In this program MISA deploys apprentices within the municipality for the period of three years for workplace exposure. After this mentioned process they are taken for trade testing to become qualified artisans. • Municipalities need artisans for both maintenance and operation of municipal infrastructure for efficient service delivery. Artisans in the above skills set support municipalities in the maintenance of infrastructure namely, Waste water treatment plant, Electricity, Machinery, Masonry, Plant and equipment and Water and sewer pipes.

30. BENEFITS OF SUPPORT TO MUNICIPALITIES • For operations the MISA is training 100 water and waste water process controllers. These process controllers are trained and once qualified they will build internal technical capacity of the municipalities. • These 100 process controllers are placed in various municipalities for training and workplace exposure from NQF level 2 – NQF level 4 certification.

31. BENEFITS OF SUPPORT TO MUNICIPALITIES Technical Training Sub-Programme • In this financial year MISA has trained 452 technical municipal officials on various short courses. Some of these courses carry continuing professional development points in order to support registered engineers to retain their professional registration. The following are some of the short course offered: • Asset management • Grap17 • These technical course are linked to efficient service delivery, the courses will assist in the identification of assets, depreciation of assets, conditional assessment of assets, asset value and developing the asset register. The condition of service delivery asset is the determinant of how this asset will provide service. The example is waste water treatment plant, water purification plant, sewer pump station, reservoir all these service delivery infrastructures have to be properly operated and maintained for efficient and effective delivery of services.

32. BENEFITS OF SUPPORT TO MUNICIPALITIES • Young Graduates Sub-Programme • The intention of this sub-programme is to support young graduates towards professional registration. Municipalities lack professionally registered engineers who are very critical in the design and signing off major infrastructure projects. • These graduates are deployed in various municipalities to provide technical municipal support whiles undergoing mentoring towards professional registration. Currently MISA has recruited 47 of these young graduates and placed them in various municipalities for workplace exposure and mentoring.

33. BENEFITS OF SUPPORT TO MUNICIPALITIES • Technical Bursary Sub-Programme • Annually MISA offers bursary support to deserving university and TVET students engineering (electrical and civil), Town and regional planning and Geographical Information System (GIS). • The focus is to replace and replenish the scarce and critical skills in Local Government due to ageing engineers with relevant skills and experience. The focus of government in infrastructure development needs a concomitant investment in built environment scare skills for service delivery.

34. BENEFITS OF SUPPORT TO MUNICIPALITIES Experiential learning Sub-Programme • This sub-programme focuses on providing exposure to new graduates and undergraduates in order to gain working experience under supervision of qualified supervisors in their respective fields. The intention is to create a pool of employable graduates in technical scare skills and Local Government becomes the employer of choice.

35. CONCLUSION • The ability of municipalities to plan, implement and maintain infrastructure in a manner that will ensure sustainable provision of services depends largely on the level of skilled personnel in these municipalities. • MISA is in the process of aligning its support programmes and approach to the Back to Basics approach current under implementation in all provinces. To contribute effectively to the objectives of strengthening the capability of municipalities to delivery infrastructure and services in a sustainable way, more technical professional will be needed. • Part of this realignment includes the integration of MISA’s capacity building and training sub-programmes with other capacity building initiatives under the Back to Basics approach. • The book by Allyson Lawless, Numbers and Needs in Local Government underlines the severity of skills shortages in municipalities’ technical departments. These skills gaps are due to under qualification and low level of professional registration among engineers and technicians employed by local government. This state of affairs adversely affects municipal infrastructure development, operations and maintenance. • Out efforts under the Back to Basics approach are aimed at supporting municipalities to enhance their capacity to meet the required standards in relation to infrastructure and service provision.

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