Title: ALIGNMENT OF GOVERNMENT PROGRAMMES WITH THE PGDS AT NATIONAL, PROVINCIAL AND LOCAL LEVEL
1ALIGNMENT OF GOVERNMENT PROGRAMMES WITH THE PGDS
AT NATIONAL, PROVINCIAL AND LOCAL LEVEL
- Presentation by Ntsiki Jolingana, Acting Head of
the Policy Unit,Department of the Premier
2Contents
- 1. What do we mean by alignment and
harmonisation? - 2. What is the rationale for greater alignment?
- 3. How can the performance of government be
improved through greater alignment? - 4. What is the mechanism by which strategic
coordination, interaction and alignment can be
facilitated?
3Contents
- 5. In what way does the NSDP frame the parameters
within which to focus government actions and
creates the platform for alignment? - 6. How will harmonization and alignment be
accomplished through the NSDP? - 7. What are the key interventions to ensure
harmonization and alignment based on the NSDP as
platform?
4Background
- 1. One of major challenges facing Government is
quest to provide basic services to - - Improve the quality of life
- - Eradicate the dualistic nature of the South
African economy - 2. This intention has found expression through
- - Acts, policies, strategies, development
planning instruments, integration mechanisms and
structures - 3. Intergovernmental integration and coordination
still require improvement so that desired
developmental outcomes can be fully realised
5What do we mean by alignment and harmonisation?
- A process entailing -
- structured and systematic dialogue
- coordinated and integrated action, between the
spheres of government and other organs of the
state - so that we can achieve common objectives and
maximise development impact
6What is the rationale for greater alignment?
- In his inauguration speech at the 10th
Anniversary of Freedom Celebrations the
President, Mr. Mbeki stressed that - it will always be impossible for us to say
that we have fully restored the dignity of all
our people as long as the overwhelming majority
of our people suffer under the burden of poverty
and deprivation.
7What is the rationale for greater alignment?
- One of the critical issues is that the
performance of the State will need to be improved
so as to put South Africa on a higher growth and
development path. - The Ten Year Review (TYR) identified four broad
social trends, which calls for greater alignment,
namely - the changes in South Africas demography
- the dramatic increase in the economically active
population - changing structure of the economy
- migration
- All the above impacted on the overall rate of
economic growth and GDP per capita, household
income poverty, and increase in social
expenditure with a massive rise in social grants.
8How can the performance of government be improved
through greater alignment?
- Alignment to enable various organs of government
to - become focused and decisive
- be able to weigh trade-offs and make strategic
choices in the face of competing demands - develop and implement consistent strategies and
programmes and - ensure that their plans reflect a shared vision
by all key role players and stakeholders
9How can the performance of government be improved
through greater alignment?
- Alignment should thus be intended to assist
government in making choices about investment and
development spending more explicit and rational. - This in turn requires the articulation of an
explicit perspective that serves as the basis for
making strategic developmental choices.
10What is the mechanism by which strategic
coordination, interaction and alignment can be
facilitated?
- National spatial guidelines/perspectives
- - a critical tool for coordinated government
action and alignment - The key purpose of perspectives is to
- - bring about synergy
- - bring about complementarities
- - maximising the overall social and economic
returns on government development spending.
11What is the mechanism by which strategic
coordination, interaction and alignment can be
facilitated?
- National spatial guidelines can bring about
cross-sectoral intergovernmental policy
integration through - facilitating dialogue and exchange of information
and understanding about the impact of policies
given different social, economic, spatial,
demographic and environmental contexts - promoting the compatibility of policies with
common objectives of government and - making the connections between various policies
and actions more transparent.
12NSDP as a platform for alignment
- The overarching spatial framework and guidelines
clearly spells-out the spatial priorities (shared
areas of impact) of government requiring action - The NSDP provides the methodological tools and
principles for making - decisions on infrastructure investment and
- development spending
13NSDP as a platform for alignment
- The NSDP enables government to answer two
critical questions - One If government were to prioritise investment
and development spending in line with its goals
and objectives, where would it invest/spend to
achieve sustainable outcomes? - Two, given the apartheid spatial configuration,
What kinds of spatial forms and arrangements are
more conducive to the achievement of our
objectives of democratic nation building and
social and economic inclusion?
14NSDP as a platform for alignment
- The NSDP recommends
- - The focusing of the bulk of governments fixed
investment in areas with development potential. - - That government concentrates primarily on
social investment, such as basic social
infrastructure and human resource development,
labour market intelligence and social grants, in
areas of limited potential
15Intergovernmental Development Planning Landscape
The outcomes of alignment interventions are aimed
at promoting the objectives of sustainable
development through co-operative development and
joint government action. Hence our development
planning needs to be synchronised.
16Key interventions to ensure harmonization and
alignment based on the NSDP
- NSDP to be
- the guide for all forms of prioritisation,
allocation of resources and implementation. - perspective for rational decision-making on
infrastructure investment and development
spending - PGDSs, IDPs are strategic instruments to achieve
greater alignment and harmonisation
17Key interventions to ensure harmonization and
alignment based on the NSDP
- 6 Interventions are called for
- One National level potential analysis and
prioritisation, - Two shared understanding and agreement on the
nature of the provincial economy - Three The Premiers Office responsibility for
Provincial Growth and Development Strategy (PGDS)
preparation and ensure that continually updated - Four District agreements need to be reached on
the district space economy - Five The Municipal Managers Offices ensure that
strategic IDPs are prepared and continually
updated. - Six A Mutual Assessment Framework needs to be
applied
18Six Key interventions
19A PGDS should based on the provincial-wide
agreement and NSDP
- It serves as
- the overarching framework for development in the
province - a provincial level strategy
- a ten-year direction setting instrument
- guides the district
- facilitating district areas development agendas,
- guides sectors, local investment and development
spending
20A PGDS should based on the provincial-wide
agreement and NSDP
- Such a PGDS will include
- an overview of the provinces development needs,
potential and objectives, broken down to district
and metropolitan area level - the provinces proposed economic growth
trajectory - the sectors of comparative advantage in which the
province and other role players plan to invest - the development proposals for each of the
metropolitan and district areas in the province
and - the responsibilities of the different provincial
sector departments in relation to the PGDS
21Free State Growth Development Strategy (FSGDS)
- We have followed the processes outlined in the
previous slides - FSGDS was launched on the 20th of May 2005
- Departmental budget allocations will be done in
accordance with the FSGDS - Implementation monitoring of progress through
the Cluster System
22STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES FOR THE FREE STATE RESULTING
FROM VISION 2014
- The FSGDS is a nine year direction setting
strategy which is derived from the - Millinium Development Goals,
- Vision 2014,
- the January 8 Statement,
- the State of the Nation Address, and
- State of the Province Address.
- It has the following 11 Objectives identified for
the province - To achieve an annual economic growth rate at
least equal to the national average economic
growth rate (dependant on external factors) - To reduce unemployment from 38.9 to 20 (MDG1)
- To reduce the number of households living in
poverty by 5 per annum (MDG1) - To improve the functional literacy rate from
69.2 to 85 (MDG2)
23STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES FOR THE FREE STATE RESULTING
FROM VISION 2014(2)
- To reduce infant mortality for children under
five years to 65 per 1000 life births (MDG4) - To reduce the obstetrical maternal mortality rate
from 65.5 to 20.06 per 100 000 women in the
reproductive age group (MDG5) - To stabilize the prevalence rate of HIV AIDS
and reverse the spread thereof (MDG6) - To provide shelter to all the indigent people of
the province - To provide free basic services to all indigent
households (MDG1) - To reduce crime rate by at least 7 per annum
- To provide adequate infrastructure for economic
growth and development -
24PRIORITY AREAS OF THE FSGDS
Integration
PRIORITY AREA Governance and Administration
VISION Unified and prosperous Free State to
fulfill the needs of all its people
PRIORITY AREA Job Creation and Economic
Development
PRIORITY AREA Social and Human Development
PRIORITY AREA Justice, Crime Prevention and
Security
25PRIORITY AREAS AND STRATEGIES PRIORITY AREAS AND
STRATEGIES
26PRIORITY AREAS AND STRATEGIES
27Cluster Approach to Coordinate Planning and
Implementation
- EEI Sector
- Economic Development
- Job Creation
- Infrastructure
- Investment
- Social Sector
- Health
- Education
- Social Development
- Capacity Building
- JCPS
- Criminal justice system
- Provincial security
- Road traffic
- Efficient Governance and Administration Sector
- Capacity Building
- Intergovernmental Relations
- Monitor and Evaluate
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