Population Group
KPA 4: GOOD GOVERNANCE AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
7. Uproot fraud, corruption nepotism and all forms of maladministration affecting local government
7.3.7 SECTOR PLANS
This IDP document is aligned with the following sector plans of the municipality as well as those of the Joe Gqabi District Municipality
· District LED strategy. This strategy was prepared in 2003, and reviewed in January 2012.
· District Water Services Development Plan This strategy was prepared in 2005, and is currently under reviewed
· District Women Development Plan. This strategy was prepared in 2006
· District Aids Plan reviewed in 2011.
· District Skills Development Plan
· District Waste Management Plan was completed in 2007
· District Environmental Management Plan was completed in 2005
· Maletswai Spatial Development Framework
· Maletswai Housing Sector plan
· Maletswai Integrated Waste Management Plan was completed in 2009
· Maletswai Local Economic Development Plan
· Roads Master Plan
· Electricity Master Plan
· Workplace Skills Plan
· Manual on Recruitment and Selection 7.4 Community Based Planning in Maletswai
In 2009, Maletswai Local Municipality participated in a public planning participatory model called Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) that was facilitated by the Department of Social Development.
However, this pilot exercise left community leaders and members alike excited but confused as well.
The Municipal Systems Act, 2000, introduced the process of municipal planning for district and local municipalities and the Integrated Development Planning Process, through which Integrated Development Plans (IDPs) are developed. Community Based Planning (CBP) is a way of identifying locally defined (community) interventions which are able to contribute to the formulation of the IDP. Attempts at participatory planning in the past have often focused on community members standing in a general meeting and list their problems (developmental needs), feasible or not. That practise did not allow for deeper analysis of the feasibility, the local contexts, the local strengths, nor mechanisms to action those needs.
The process of CBP allows for participatory planning, the objectives of which are to:
• Improve the quality of plans;
• Improve the quality of services;
• Improve the community’s control over development;
• Increase community action and reduce dependency.
The developmental local government’s challenge is to develop a credible Integrated Development Plan that will outline spatial planning, community needs and development priorities in a simpler, user friendly and implementable way.
The key concept of CBP is that people are active and involved in managing their own development, in claiming their rights and in exercising their developmental responsibilities. CBP linked to the local government system provides an opportunity to make this a reality.
MALETSWAI LOCAL MUNICIPALITY IDP 2013/14 Page 146 The community-based planning approach is not a universal remedy however a critical intervention where it matters most in the ownership of development initiatives within a municipality, thus minimising protest by communities about what is to take place in their neighbourhoods, and maximising their opportunity to influence the IDP and the way municipal resources are allocated. CBP provides an opportunity for real partnerships between municipalities and communities to improve the quality of people’s participation and control of their own development. We hope you find this methodology as valuable as it has proved to us.
Community Based Planning is a suitable mechanism for developing a municipal 5 (five) year strategic framework, an IDP. The below key principles of CBP justifies this statement:
- Poor people must be included in planning;
- The systems used to include people must be realistic and practical. In addition, the planning process must be implementable using available resources within the district/local government (and so must link in and integrate with existing processes, particularly local government planning);
- Planning must be linked to a legitimate structure (the ward and ward committee);
- Planning should not be a once off exercise, but should be part of an on-going process, with planning, implementation, M&E, and annual reviews;
- The plan must be people focused and empowering (and so the plan is based around the livelihoods of different groups, and the community produces their own plan with support from ward and municipal facilitators);
- We must build on strengths and opportunities not problems (which makes us more likely to succeed and not to be paralysed by the problems);
- Plans must be holistic and cover all sectors (and so address the reality of people’s lives, and not the artificial sectorial distinctions of government);
- Planning should promote mutual accountability between community and officials; and
- There must be commitment by councillors and officials to both plan and implement, and there must be someone responsible to ensure it gets done (hence the commitments and preconditions the municipality needs to undertake).
To this effect, the Council of Maletswai official, in September 2012, adopted Community Based Planning as an approach that will inform the Maletswai IDP going forward. In putting this historic Council resolution in an implementation mode, the following activities were under taken:
- Orientation workshops for Councillors, Management and municipal officials,
- Orientation workshop for all (60) Ward Committee members, - Identification and training of municipal CBP facilitators, - Identification and training of ward CBP facilitators, and
- Establishment of a municipal CBP Facilitation Team (including Ward Co-ordinators).
A Maletswai Community Based Planning Project Steering Committee was established consisting of the following stakeholders:
Departments of Local Government and Traditional Affairs (DLGTA), Rural Department and Agrarian Reform (DRDAR), Roads and Public Works (DRPW), Health (DoH), Social Development and Sport Recreation Arts & Culture (DSRAC).
Data Collection:
In earnest, the CBP work started in October 2012 with the following activities:
- Conducting desk top analysis (socio-economic stats and municipal infrastructure) - Training of ward based field researchers (24 ward committee members)
- Community survey (400 households) - Business interviews (20 businesses) - Agricultural sector interviews (40 farmers) - Sector departments interviews (15 departments)
Ward Based Plans:
Maletswai Local Municipality has 6 (six) wards and the core of the Community Based Planning (ward community consultations) activities were done in November 2012, across all wards. A consolidated summary of the Ward based plans is attached. (Refer to ANNEXURE “G”)
Presentations of the draft Ward Based Plans were done in February 2013, for the final confirmations in order for those community priorities to find express in the draft and final 2013/2014 Maletswai IDP.
The findings reflect the critical communities’ needs that require to be addressed by the following sectors:
- Local and District municipality (basic services),
- Department of Health (clinics, hospitals and related services)
MALETSWAI LOCAL MUNICIPALITY IDP 2013/14 Page 148 - Departments’ of Rural Department and Agrarian Reform and Land Reform (land and animals for
farming, extension services, etc.)
- Departments of Basic Education & Higher Education and Training (FET College, additional classrooms and schools, education support services, etc.)
- Department of Home Affairs (birth certificates & IDs)
- Department of Labour (protection of labour rights & awareness)
- Department of Police (need for police community service centres, poor police visibility, detection, crime prevention and abuse of human rights by police, etc.)
- Department of Human Settlement (provision of adequate and quality houses)
- Department of Social Development (child support grant and forms of grants, funding for projects, etc.)
- Office of the Premier (provincial government communication, etc.)
CHAPTER 8
KPA 5: FINANCIAL VIABILITY