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Capacitation
Programme to Support the people's housing Process
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South Africa |
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Total cost
$3,089,000
Partners
Ministry of Housing and Department of
Housing
Provincial Governments
NGOs and Communities
Local Governments and Urban Local Authorities
United States Agency for International
Development (USAID)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
(Habitat)
Background and objectives
South Africa's housing problems are mainly
a legacy of the apartheid system. Housing was provided and used as
an instrument of social segregation. There was no housing market
for all South Africans and no coherent national housing policy. Housing,
therefore, became a political rallying point during the struggle for liberation
and majority rule and a top priority of the new Government. The Department
of Housing has initiated several interventions at different levels with
the objective of housing the nation without discrimination and in particular
to correct the historical imbalance. The People's Housing Process
has been initiated to assist people who are poor and homeless or inadequately
housed. The objective of the project is to develop support mechanisms
for building capacity at all levels to enable people to address their own
housing needs.
Activities
The activities include a preparatory phase
during which linkages between national policies and sub-national and community-level
structures were established through a series of consultations. Specific
activities for the implementation phase include the establishment of facilities
and recruitment of personnel, a contribution to the national policy on
housing in general and to the People's Housing Process in particular, carrying
out an advocacy campaign to inform officials of public and private institutions
and communities about the People's Housing Process and to commit them to
supporting the process, developing supportive skills at all levels for
the process by engaging with officials and communities in housing activities
such as mobilization of savings, organization skills and actual planning,
design and construction of houses, development of community networks of
NGOs, locally and internationally and community-based organizations for
the exchange of experience and ideas on mobilizing communities to produce
their own housing.
Results
Results include establishment of a People's
Housing Partnership Trust at the Department of Housing charged with implementing
the training programme and the People's Housing Process. This includes
legal documents and a comprehensive business plan, an increased awareness
among the people of their ability to contribute towards finding solutions
to their housing needs as well as several documents, videos and other displays,
a national housing policy for supporting the People's Housing Process guidelines
for supporting the People's Housing Process within the national housing
policy and in the application of the housing subsidies procedures for establishing
housing support centres and personnel in three provincial housing departments
trained in facilitation skills.
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| Capacity-Building
for Local Governance |
Total cost
$972,000
Partners
Department for Provincial Affairs and
Local Government
Northern Province Government
North West Province Government
South Africa Local Governments Association
United Nations Department of Economic
and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
(Habitat)
Background and objectives
The overall objective of the programme
is to assist the Government to implement the national Local Government
Transformation Programme launched in early 1999 by the Department of Constitutional
Development. This programme addresses issues of capacity-building
in pilot local authorities from the North West and the Northern Province,
supporting the transformation process through the following three components:
improvement in service delivery, institutional capacity-building and integrating
the rights approach to development. On the whole, this programme
seeks to contribute towards achieving sound developmental local governance
by enhancing the capacity for integrated development planning, local economic
development, performance management systems, financial viability and management,
project management and a culture of collective civic responsibility.
Activities
Within this framework, the cooperating
agency is expected to provide assistance in the implementation of the following
specific activities: implementation of the Integrated Development Planning
(IDP) process manual to assist local authorities formulate integrated development
plans by prioritizing and strategically focusing their efforts and resources,
assist local governments and community leaders to formulate a strategic
framework on the relation between traditional leaders and elected officials.
In this context, the Municipal Service Partnership is preparing a Municipal
Service Partnership strategy, which will include case studies on the pilot
local authorities strengthen existing partnerships and facilitate the creation
of new municipal service partnerships through four seminars targeting councilors,
local government associations, CBOs and representatives from the private
sector, organize a national workshop on service partnerships to discuss
problematic issues and innovative solutions and contribute to the debate
at local, provincial and national level. Develop and publish monitoring
and evaluation guidelines related to the IDP implementation process.
Results
Expected results include: IDP process
clearly understood and applied in the selected local authorities.
Procedures for establishing municipal services partnerships elaborated
and demonstrated and contribution to the debate on the relationships between
elected representatives and traditional leaders.
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| Johannesburg
City Assistance Support Programme (CASP) |
Total cost
$$195,000
Partners
Johannesburg Metropolitan Council
Wits University (P&DM/UMP Partnership)
World Bank
United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
(Habitat)
Background and objectives
Igoli 2002, initiated in March 1999, is
a city-wide, participatory planning process, which aims to address critical
financial and institutional problems facing the metropolitan council and
to lay a more stable foundation for the effective and efficient delivery
of services to all Johannesburg's residents. The plan will provide
for the establishment of new institutional arrangements, including utilities,
agencies and corporatized units to better manage the Council's core service
responsibilities, a refinancing programme to decisively address a severe
financial crisis and a series of special projects and programmes, which
will enable the metropolitan council to take a longer term and more developmental
perspective on key metropolitan challenges of slum upgrading, housing,
local economic growth and investment. The programmes to be supported
and the sub-components to be targeted for CASP funding are a water and
sanitation utility programme, modelling technical and financial systems
and tariff structures to ensure an acceptable and sustainable level of
water and sanitation services to low-income communities, metropolitan housing
delivery strategy and programme, defining a new housing delivery approach
and designing the housing finance systems and institutional arrangements
necessary to support this and the greater Alexandra and N3 development
project, first phase sub-regional plan to provide greater access to land
and infrastructure to the people of Alexandra.
Activities
Support the project team to prepare
an initial strategic business plan for the utility, modelling of ideal
service levels, tariff structures, external funding requirements, subsidy
and lifeline measures and possible water loss reduction measures.
Contribute to the development of an appropriate, realistic and affordable
housing delivery strategy and design an implementation programme and plan
for the city of Johannesburg, consistent with the national and provincial
policies, as well as the city's strategic metropolitan integrated development
framework. Contribute to the development of a first phase sub-regional
plan, which consolidates all existing plans on Alexandra, identifies gaps
and provides a framework for a comprehensive plan covering land-use, infrastructure
requirements, property market and economic investment requirements, transportation
and community commitment to the plan development and implementation
Results
An initial strategic business plan for
the utility, affordable housing delivery strategy for the city of Johannesburg
and the first phase of a sub-regional plan, which consolidates all
existing plans on Alexandra and the N3 corridor.
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| Safer
Cities Durban |
| Total cost $142,560
Partners
Municipal Authority of Durban
Government of the Netherlands
International Centre for the Prevention
of Crime (ICPC)
United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
(Habitat)
Background and objectives
Violent crime and delinquency threaten
the quality of life of urban populations in South Africa in general and
particularly in Durban. Since December 1997, several high-profile
murders and attacks on foreign tourists in the centre of Durban have confirmed
increasing crime levels in the city. A victimization survey was conducted
by the Institute of Security Studies. Quite significantly, Durban
has higher victimization rates for burglary, robbery and murder and an
equal rate of victimization for car theft than Johannesburg. This
situation has led the national Government to take initiatives, focussing
on crime prevention and addressing the causes of crime. The city
of Durban intends to develop a specific local strategy to address insecurity
at the City level. The Durban project responds to a request of the
national crime prevention strategy. The objective of this project
is to strengthen the capacity of the city to implement prevention activities
through a multisectoral and partnership approach coordinated by local authorities.
The immediate objectives are the setting-up of a city-wide crime assessment,
the definition of a plan of action with the creation of a local coalition
on crime prevention in the city of Durban and the implementation of this
action plan.
Activities
The Safer Cities Durban project team has
developed a comprehensive crime prevention strategy approved by the Durban
Metro Council and supported by a crime victimization survey and by active
consultation with. A research group has been established to formulate
and implement a strategy. Activities have started in the area of
support to youth at risk and in sensitive areas such as KwaMashu, one of
the most violent townships in metropolitan Durban. The project provides
an opportunity to exchange experience with other safer cities projects.
Results
Expected results include intensive collaboration
between Johannesburg and Dar es Salaam on the reduction of urban violence,
a community-wide and multisectoral crime prevention strategy and an action
plan against urban violence.
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