ALIGNMENT OF GOVERNMENT PROGRAMMES WITH THE PGDS AT NATIONAL, PROVINCIAL AND LOCAL LEVEL

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ALIGNMENT 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

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Contents

• 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?

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Contents

• 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?

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Background

• 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

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What 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

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What 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.

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What 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.

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How 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

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How 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.

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What 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.

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What 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.

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NSDP 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

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NSDP 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?

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NSDP 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

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Intergovernmental 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.
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Key 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

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Key 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

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Six Key interventions
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A 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

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A 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

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Free 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

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STRATEGIC 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)

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STRATEGIC 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

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PRIORITY 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
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PRIORITY AREAS AND STRATEGIES PRIORITY AREAS AND
STRATEGIES
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PRIORITY AREAS AND STRATEGIES
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Cluster 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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