PROGRAMMATIC OVERVIEW OF S'A Cities Network Strategic Planning Workshop 2628 January 2003, Cape Town

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PROGRAMMATIC OVERVIEWOF S.A Cities Network
Strategic Planning Workshop 26-28 January
2003, Cape Town
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0. ABOUT THE PRESENTATION

• PURPOSE
• Create a platform for analyzing debating the
  nature of current SACN Programs
• Develop agree on a framework for thinking about
  conceptualizing SACN programs
• Generate a program implementation strategy,
  projects activities.

• ISSUES COVERED
• Introductory Background
• What is the Nature of Our Current Programs?
• Aligning the SACN to broader local government
  sphere
• Utilizing KPIs as a Foundation for Program Work
  A Proposal
• Ensuring Synergy, Integration and Lessons Sharing
  
• Concluding Remarks

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THE SACN BRIEF CONTEXT

• .Meant to be a platform to
• network and develop synergy
• share innovative knowledge
• generate workable response or solutions
• on issues affecting South African cities.

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Assumptions Success Factors

• SACN must impact positively both within/inside
  and without/outside Cities
• Recognize the importance of other stakeholders
  as a value-adding ingredient to SACNs efforts
  contribution to Developmental Local Government
• Minimizing resource wastage and focus on be
  driven by solutions
• Program Integration is a critical component to
  mutual benefit

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Key Challenges

• Stabilizing the SACN
• Program Integration
• Create partnerships for mutual benefit
• Avoiding over-biting and chewing less

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2. CURRENT PROGRAMS

• HIV/ Aids (1)
• Transport (2)
• Urban Indicators (3)
• Service Delivery (3)
• Peer Review (1)
• Urban Poverty (2)
• 1- active
• 2 - semi active
• 3 - non active

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Issues to Take Into Account for Program
Development

• Proper conceptualization within the context of
  SACN?
• Relevance to local governments developmental
  Agenda?
• Operational channels, structures and systems?
• Clearly defined activities and outputs/outcomes?
• Monitoring, Evaluation and Review mechanism.
• NB it is important that each program is
  conceptualized differently according to its
  challenges.

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SACN Context

• Is the program capable of effecting synergy,
  facilitate networking and generate innovative
  knowledge?
• Therefore, will the program impact positively to
  a South African City Development Strategy?
• If so, what is the value-add to each city?

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Relevance to Developmental Local Gvt.

• How is the program enhancing programmatic efforts
  of other spheres of government specifically the
  non-governmental sector generally
• To what extent is the program addressing a
  component/s of developmental local government
  e.g. outcomes, tools, IGR.
• How will the outputs/outcomes of the program be
  used as a learning process to revise mechanism
  means for attaining developmental objectives.

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Channels, Structures Systems

• What type of structures are put in place to
  implement the program objectives?
• Who is championing the program and who is
  implementing activities?
• Where and when does everyone concerned report and
  how?

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M, E R Mechanism

• What is it that the SACN must monitor, evaluate
  and review in order to retain or remove a
  specific program.
• integration, lessons learnt, value add,
  sustainability
• OR
• Contribution to nationally established Key
  Performance Indicators for municipalities
• OR
• Both of the Above

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3. ALIGNING INTEGRATING S.A.C.N. TO LOCAL GVT.

• Aligning
• Ensuring that there is no duplication that
  results from narrow sectoral or geographical
  thinking !!

• Integrating
• Ensuring that sector based projects and / or
  activities are benefiting other sectors in such a
  manner that theres little duplication !!

E.g. If SALGA is engaging DWAF on Water
Sanitation, can the SACN utilize its platform to
input City Peculiarities into the SALGA driven
process without duplicating or complicating the
overall process?
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Three premises for alignment

• SA Constitution the White Paper on Local
  Government
• Systems Structure Acts of Local Gvt
• Local Gvt. Performance Management System that
  derives itself from the Systems Act
• We must not be ignorant of and therefore need to
  take into account other national, provincial and
  city generated POLICY DIRECTIVES.e.g. IDPs,
  Urban Policy,
• ISRDP, Urban Renewal etc

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Program Alignment Integration Framework
Partial Integration National Provincial
B
Fully Integrated SACN Program
C
(inter) National
Provincial
D
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Local
Partial Integration Local Provincial
Partial Integration Local National
Our program must demonstrate at least 3 of either
A, B, C D to be justified as SACN Programs
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Relationships, Alignment Integration
Program(s)
Products
Themes
Developmental Agenda
Knowledge Sharing
Agenda
Stakeholders
Mobilization
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4. LOCAL Gvt. KPIs AS FOUNDATION OF PROGRAMS

• National KPIs
• Service Delivery
• Financial Sustainability
• Econ. Development
• Good Governance

• In Addition
• Research
• City Development Strategies (CDS)
• Special Project
• Knowledge Sharing

Mobilization Agenda
Developmental Agenda
Horizontal Vertical Program Implementation
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Suggestive Implication !!

• 2 Thematic
• Conveners
• (political)
• Developmental
• Mobilization

• 8 Program Champions
• (administrative)
• Service Delivery
• Finance
• Good Governance
• Econ. Dev
• Research
• CDS
• Special Projects
• Knowledge Sharing

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Arising Questions ??

• How do we choose
• mandate the Thematic Conveners?
• assign Program Champions?
• appoint Program/Project Managers?

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Projects Per Program

• 1. Service Delivery
• Transport
• Water
• Housing
• Etc

• 2. Financial Sustainability
• Budget Development
• Revenue Enhancement
• Financial Systems
• Linking IDP to Budget
• Etc

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Project Per Program

• 3. Econ. Dev.
• Local Economic Development
• Regional Economic
• Development
• Etc

• 4. Good Governance
• Community Participation
• Performance Indicators
• Communication
• Etc

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Project Per Program

• Research
• Urban Policy
• Poverty
• HIV/Aids
• Etc

• City Development Strategies
• Urban Indicators
• Other issues based on discussions in this
  Strategic Plan Workshop??

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Project Per Program

• 7. Special Projects
• Municipal Journalism
• Newsletter
• Monographs/Books on Municipal Leadership Skills
• Etc

• Knowledge Sharing
• Topic Specific Networks / Seminar
• Peer Learning and Exchange
• Periodic Conferencing
• Knowledge Web-site Management

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Challenge for Each Program

• Development of Clearer Terms of Reference
• Prioritization of Projects Development of a 3
  year P.O.A.
• Deployment of Conveners, Champions and
  Program/Project Managers
• Knowledge Generation

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5. ENSURING SYNERGY, INTEGRATION LESSON
SHARING

• Two Cardinal Issues
• Web-site
• Program Work-plans

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Possible Web-site Sections

• Page Lead
• Whats New
• Meetings (pp)
• Home Page (pp)
• Programs
• Reports
• Learning Products
• SACN Info. (e.g. About Us, Board, Secretariat,
  Champions, Managers)

• Newsletter Pamphlets
• Useful Links
• City Profiles
• Bulletin Board
• Chat Rooms
• FAQ
• Site Usage Tips
• Calendar
• Events

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Web-site Pull Push

• Push Factors
• What is the Newspapers
• City Contact People
• Donor (Resource) Data Base and Approach
  Techniques

• Pull Factors
• Member City Tender Info.
• Vacancies
• other

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Program Work-plans
Strategic Planning
Board Meeting
Board Meeting
Board Meeting
Management Meeting
Management Meeting
Management Meeting
Program Meetings
Program Meetings
Program Meetings
P.O.A. Implementation
Program Planning
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Concluding Remarks

• Presentation is based on an analysis of current
  programs
• Suggested changes are meant to change focus and
  build foundation for future / long-term
  interaction with other stakeholders
• Recommendations should be further discussed in
  Group Session
• Time bound implementation plan will result from
  discussions in plenary and group session.

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Thank You