CHRIS HANI DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY Provincial LED Conference 0809112007: Mthatha by T' Mashologu

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CHRIS HANI DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY
Provincial LED Conference
08-09/11/2007 Mthatha by T. Mashologu

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LED INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE
Community Development Officer
LED Administrator
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INSTITUTIONAL SCENARIO IN LMS

• Have different institutional set- up and
  approaches
• LED either linked with IDP or Community Services
  departments
• No dedicated LED directorate
• Only two LMs that have stand alone LED
  directorates
• LED units do not have sufficient staff/
  officials.
• Big Challenge LED brain drain

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CHRIS HANI STRATEGIC DIRECTION

• The three key objectives of the CHDM strategic
  direction emanating from the IDP processes are
• To ensure social and economic development occurs
  to create a better quality of life for all
  citizens through a holistic, integrated and
  multi-dimensional approach to social and economic
  development.
• To ensure the sustainable utilization and
  monitoring of human, financial and environmental
  resources.
• To develop strategic partnerships that will lead
  to the consolidation, development and
  diversification of the regional economy to
  alleviate poverty and create employment
  opportunities.

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KEY PRIORITY SECTORS

Land Agrarian Reform
Forestry Wood Products
Trade Services
Tourism
Manufacturing Construction
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Sector Performance 96 - 2005
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PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION

• LED emerged as a priority in our 2006/7 IDP.
• The DM budgets a substantial amount for LED every
  financial year.
• The same cannot be said about budgeting in LMs.
• Receive grants from sector departments both
  provincial and national
• Have a strategic partnership with government
  agencies and other organisations (NDA, DBSA, IDT,
  ARC, ECDC, THINA SINAKO)

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STATUS QUO

• Effectively functioning LED forum with private
  sector involvement
• Ongoing capacity building programmes for LM, and
  SMMEs
• Currently working on a structured schedule to
  strengthen integration and coordination (sector
  forums)

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CHALLENGES

• Unavailability of economic data for planning
  purposes
• Capacity of LMs to conceptualise sound LED
  projects proposals.
• Coordinated project implementation management
  system
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Recording of lessons learnt
• LED institutional structure capacity

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LESSONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

• Integrated planning co-ordination is key to
  success
• Strong inter-municipal relations (learning from
  others)
• Recording of success stories to inform decisions
  to establish development agencies??

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End

• Local economic development (LED) is not
  about local government per se. Rather, it is
  about what the entirety of government does in
  local spaces. In other words, our collective
  efforts must be directed towards ensuring
  optimisation of intergovernmental impact on every
  part of our space economy.
• Minister Sydney Mufamadi National
  Conference on Developing Local
  Economies, 14 August 2006.