Transcript OUTCOME 9: A Responsive, accountable, effective and

STRENGTHENING COLLABORATION THROUGH
MANAGEMENT OF CONCURRENCY
PRESENTATION BY: Mr Themba Fosi
Date: 02 April 2012
S37 Boardroom
COGTA
OVERVIEW OF PRESENTATION
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Constitutional Context
Roles of Spheres/SALGA
Types of Concurrency
Key challenges of the COGTA Portfolio
Provincial COGTA challenges
Alignment of functions/structure/APP
Implementation and coordination support to municipalities
Proposals for consideration
Norms and Standards
Alignment of strategic objective(APP)
Coordination and implementation mechanisms
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1. CONSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT
NATIONAL GOVERNMENT MAIN ROLE
 Policy-making, regulation and oversight
 Set norms and standards and has overriding powers
 Administers exclusive national functions, e.g. civic functions,
justice, international relations, defence
 Shares certain functions with provinces (concurrency), e.g.
social services functions, education, housing, health, social
grants and welfare
 Others exclusive national whose functions have direct
bearing on municipalities, e.g. DWA, Energy, etc
 Major taxing powers – Revenue sharing model
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2. CONSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT (cont.)
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT MAIN ROLE
 Performs exclusive and concurrent functions with
National Government (schedule 4&5)
 Administers social services functions, e.g. education,
housing, health, welfare, etc
 Limited revenue raising powers (motor licences fees,
casino, horseracing taxes and hospital fees)
 Constitutionally charged with monitoring, support and
oversight responsibility over LG; and
 Intervening powers in municipal governance
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3. CONSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT (cont.)
SOUTH AFRICAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
 Represent, promote
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and protect interest of local
government;
 Act as an employer body representing all municipal
members and by agreement, associate members;
 Lobby and advocate for members municipalities
 Act as resource for knowledge and information to
municipalities;
 Affiliate and participate in the affairs of regional,
continental and international organisation that will serve
interest of its members
4. CONSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT (cont)
COGTA PORTFOLIO & CONCURRENCY
 Not a direct service delivery portfolio;
 Departmental configurations at Provincial level uneven;
 Share a legislative and executive competence, e.g.
support and strengthen the capacity of municipalities;
 Coordination of intergovernmental relations (spheres
Nat. & Prov, sectors) efforts towards supporting
municipalities;
 Responsible for implementing similar priorities on LG,
e.g. LGTAS and managing LG institutional &
administrative systems
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5. KEY CHALLENGES OF THE PORTFOLIO
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Study on Provincial COGTA, done 2006/07
 Struggling to fulfil their support and oversight
role;(improvements differs from prov. to prov.)
 Across all provinces COGTA is seriously under-resourced;
 Prevailing structures and patterns of staffing do not match
increasingly complex mandate;
 Confusion and sometimes conflict between COGTA and
OTP;
 S139 has not provided practical basis for constructive
intervention;
 Land use is, at best patchy and under-resourced
6. KEY CHALLENGES OF THE PORTFOLIO (cont)
 Poor consultation, coordination and joint planning
between National Cogta with Provincial counterparts;
 Few Provincial legislations passed on this portfolio;
 No alignment of National annual performance plan (APP)
with Provincial APP;
 Emerging protection of turfs – particularly around
implementation of national priorities relating to local
government;
 Poor collaboration and management of IGR both at
National and Provincial level;
 LGTAS provided basis for collaboration but has died down;
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7. PROPOSALS – WAY FORWARD
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Conduct comprehensive study on the effective
management of the concurrent COGTA function in
relation to implementation of its mandate, covering the
following areas:
Norm and Standards for core functions, structure
budgetary implication;
Alignment of the Annual Performance Plans
Intergovernmental relations coordination responsibilities;
Skills audit and the required skills for the sectoral
responsibilities
Business case for resourcing the function both at National
and Provincial level
8. PROPOSAL – WAY FORWARD (CONT.)
6. Coordination and implementation mechanisms of the
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sectoral priorities at a programme level;
Policy-making and legislative processes;
SALGA role and interface with the sector (policy,
legislation and implementation phases)
COGTA sectoral Communication Strategy
Establish Steering Committee made up of COGTA,
DPSA, NT and SALGA
Strengthen the functionality of the newly established LG
Learning Network
THANK YOU!
Working Together to Turn the Tide on
Local Government