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South African Cities Support and Learning Network

Promoting good governance and management of South African cities, analyzing strategic challenges, and fostering partnerships for effective urban development. Eighteen South African cities as members, along with government departments, universities, NGOs, and international agencies as partners.

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South African Cities Support and Learning Network

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  1. South African Cities Support and Learning Network

  2. “A country’s global success rests on local shoulders. For the good of all citizens, city and state must become partners rather than competitors” - The state of the World’s Cities Report 2001, UN-Habitat, Nairobi

  3. PRESENTATION Why a Cities Network? What is the Network going to do? Who are the members of the Network? How it the Network going to operate?

  4. GLOBALISATION What is globalisation? The role of cities in the global economy. Cities and the national economy.

  5. URBANISATION Preparing for an urban future. The urbanisation of poverty. Urban/rural linkages.

  6. GOALS OF NETWORK To promote good governance and management of South African cities. To analyse strategic challenges facing South African cities, particularly in the context of the global and national economy. To collect, collate, analyse, assess, disseminate and apply the experience of large city government in a South African context. To create a partnership between different spheres of government to support the governance of South African cities.

  7. MEMBERS Buffalo City (East London) Cape Town Ekurhuleni (East Rand) eThekwini (Durban) Johannesburg Mangaung (Bloemfontein) Msunduzi (Pietermaritzburg) Nelson Mandela (Port Elizabeth) Tshwane (Pretoria)

  8. PARTNERS National Government Departments Provinces with large urban areas Private Sector Public Corporations Universities and Research Institutions Organised Local Government NGOs and CBOs Knowledge Networks Donors and International Agencies

  9. PRIORITY PROGRAMMES Economic Development. Institutional Restructuring for Service Delivery. Effective Responses to HIV/AIDS. Urban Transport Strategies. Urban Indicators for Improving City Performance.

  10. Programme ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Programme Objectives Enhance competitiveness of metropolitan regions. Promote integrated and multi-sectoral approach. Develop options for economic growth strategies. Develop understanding of role of municipalities. Build capacity of municipalities.

  11. INSTITUIONAL RESTRUCTURING FOR SERVICE DELIVERY (ELECTRICITY SUB GROUP) Implications of the establishment of Regional Electricity Distributors (REDs). Impact of corporatisation of electricity departments on municipal finances and systems.

  12. EFFECTIVE RESPONSES TO HIV/AIDS Demographic impact. Care and support to families. Physical planning, development and housing. Finance and budgeting. Economic development. Staffing.

  13. URBAN TRANSPORT STRATEGIES Accessibility to the urban economy: commuter transport. Economic competitiveness: commercial transport.

  14. URBAN INDICATORS FOR IMPROVING CITY PERFORMANCE City Development Index (UN-Habitat) SA City Development Index National and Provincial City Development Index

  15. ADDITIONAL FOCUS AREAS Peer Review Pilots Projects (improvement and Development Agency, UK) eGovernance for Urban Development (European Institute for Comparative Urban Research, Holland) World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD)

  16. LEARNING METHODOLOGIES Share information: between cities, with spheres of government and organised local government. Promote and monitor inter-sectoral and intergovernmental coordination. Research programmes. Leadership development and training. Disseminate best practice and innovation. Peer review.

  17. INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS Members Forum Section 21 Company Specialist Support Agency Technical Advisory Group Funding

  18. WAY AHEAD Formal launch planned for July 2002 Company in the process of being established. Programme activities have already commenced.

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