Transcript OUTCOME 9 DELIVERY AGREEMENT

Improving Government’s Performance through
Measurable Performance and Accountable Delivery
IMPLEMENTATION FORUM: OUTCOME 9
(MINISTER FOR COOPERATIVE
GOVERNANCE & TRADITIONAL AFFAIRS
(COGTA), MECs AND MAYORS)
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Friday, 4 June 2010
Birchwood Hotel & Conference Centre
Introduction
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To present the draft Delivery Agreement for Outcome 9: “A
Responsive, Accountable, Effective and Efficient Local
Government System”;
To contextualise the processes that informed the development of
the Draft Delivery Agreement;
Create a common understanding of the definitions contained in the
seven Outputs of the Draft Delivery Agreement; and
To highlight the approach towards initiating discussions and
obtaining inputs from all stakeholders on the Draft Delivery
Agreement.
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LG Ten Point Plan: informed by LGTAS
Local Government Turn Around Strategy Objectives:
 Restore the confidence of the majority of our people in our municipalities,
as the primary delivery machine of the developmental state at a local level
& make municipalities the pride of our people
 Re-build and improve the basic requirements for a functional,
accountable, responsive, effective, efficient developmental local
government
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Outputs:
Performance
Agreement
44 Metrics /
Indicators
Delivery
Agreement
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OUTCOME 9: A Responsive, accountable, effective
and efficient local government system
 Output 1: Implement a differentiated approach to municipal
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financing, planning and support
Output 2: Improving access to basic services.
Output 3: Implementation of the Community Work Programme
Output 4: Actions supportive of the human settlement outcome
Output 5: Deepen democracy through a refined Ward
Committee model
Output 6: Administrative and financial capability
Output 7: Single window of coordination
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Outputs, Deliverables, Indicators & Key Role
Players
OUTPUT
DELIVERABLES
INDICATORS
KEY ROLE PLAYERS
1. Differentiated
Approach
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Human Settlements
National Treasury
Provinces
Municipalities
2. Basic Municipal
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Municipalities
Provinces
DWAE
Dept Rural Dev & Land Ref
Human Settlements
Dept Energy; ESKOM/EDI
3. Community Work
Programme
1
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Dept of Agriculture
Dept Rural Dev & Land Ref
Dept of Tourism
Dept of Public Works
Municipalities
4. Support Human
Settlement Outcomes
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Dept Rural Dev & Land Ref
Dept of Traditional Affairs
NT
Human Settlements
Dept of Public Works
Services
Outputs, Deliverables, Indicators & Key Role
Players (cont)
OUTPUT
5. Deepen Democracy
DELIVERABLES
INDICATORS
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6. Improve Administrative
and Financial
Capabilities of
Municipalities
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7. Single window of
coordination
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through a refined
ward committee
model
KEY ROLE PLAYERS
Municipalities
Provinces
Dept of Traditional Affairs
NT
Provinces
Municipalities
Professional Bodies
All relevant National Depts
All relevant Provincial
Depts
SALGA
PALAMA
LGSETA
DBSA
Professional Bodies
Donors
DEFINING THE DELIVERABLES
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Differentiated
Approach
Implement a differentiated approach to municipal financing, planning and
support
Metric
1. Autonomy
in respect of
infrastructure
and housing
delivery
1. Autonomy
in respect of
infrastructure and
housing
delivery
2. Simplified
IDP’s planning
for the delivery
of a set of 10
critical
municipal
services
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Number of municipalities
accredited as Housing
Providers by the Department
of Human Settlements by 2014
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Implementation of the
MIG-City programme to
metro’s and top 21
municipalities
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% of smaller municipalities
producing IDP’s that are
simplified by 2014
Current
Value
Target
Value
?NR
All 6
METRO’S
AND TOP
21
New
project
All 6
METRO’S
AND TOP
21
0%
100%
Key Action
1. Grant the 6 metro’s and top 21
municipalities more autonomy
in respect of infrastructure
and housing delivery
2. Accelerate the implementation
of the MIG-City programme to
the top 21 municipalities
3. For smaller municipalities
design
a
very
focused
intervention that is limited to
producing IDP’s that are
simplified,
to
focus
on
planning for the delivery of a
set of 10 critical municipal
services
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DEFINING THE DELIVERABLES
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Differentiated
Approach
Implement a differentiated approach to municipal financing, planning and support
Metric
3.
Detailed
segmentation of
municipalities
4. Simple
revenue
plans
5. Critical
posts
filled by
suitably
qualified
individual
s
•
Segmentation model
finalised by March
2011
• % of IDP’s supported by
a simple revenue plan
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% of critical posts filled
by suitably qualified
individuals
Current
Value
New
project
Target
Value
March
2011
New
project
All
identified
municipalit
ies
%
100%
Key Action
4. The IDP should also be
supported by a simple revenue
plan that will better manage
costs
and
enhance
the
management of revenue.
5. Ensure that the critical posts of
Municipal
Manager,
Town
planner, Chief Financial Officer
and Engineer / technical
services are audited and filled
by competent and suitably
qualified individuals.
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DEFINING THE DELIVERABLES
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Differentiated
Approach
Implement a differentiated approach to municipal financing, planning and
support
Metric
6. Top six
critical posts
in
municipalitie
s are not
filled by
elected
officials of
any political
party
7. Contract of
municipal
manager is
crisp and
concise
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Number of municipalities
complying with the
professionalisation
framework
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% of municipal manager
contracts that are crisp and
concise
Current
Value
Target
Value
New
project
Key Action
6.
7.
%
100%
We need to work towards a
situation where it becomes a
key requirement that no
elected official of any party
should serve in these roles).
Ensure that the performance
contract of the municipal
manager should be concise
and crisp.
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DEFINING THE DELIVERABLES
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Basic
Municipal
Services
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Improve the quantity and quality of municipal basic services
Metric
1. Access to
% households with access to
basic level of water
92%
100%
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% households with access to
basic level of sanitation
69%
100%
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% households with access to
basic level of refuse removal
64%
75%
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% households with access to
electricity
81%
92%
Sanitation
3. Access to
Refuse
Removal
4. Access to
Electricity
Target
Value
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Water
2. Access to
Current
Value
Key Action
1. Improve universal
access to basic services
by 2014 as follows:
• Water from 92% to 100%
• Sanitation from 69% to
100%
• Refuse Removal from
64% to 75 %
• Electricity from 81% to
92%
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DEFINING THE DELIVERABLES
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Basic
Municipal
Services
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Improve the quantity and quality of municipal basic services
Metric
5. Bulk
Infrastructure
Fund
6. Special
purpose
vehicle for
municipal
infrastructure
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Number of bulk
infrastructure projects
funded through the Bulk
Infrastructure Fund
Cabinet approval
of the
establishment of
SPV by target date
Current
Value
New
project
New
project
Target
Value
?
March
2011
Key Action
1. Establish a Bulk infrastructure
fund to unlock the delivery of
reticulation services, fund bulk
infrastructure an procure well
located land
2. Align
Provincial
Infrastructure
Grants
and
Municipal
Infrastructure Grants with housing
projects and grants to upgrade and
rehabilitate
bulk
infrastructure
such as Waste Water Treatment
Works
3. Establish a Special Purpose
Vehicle for municipal infrastructure
to assist in mobilizing private
sector infrastructure funding for
municipalities and to support in
the planning and expenditure of
CAPEX and OPEX in municipalities
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DEFINING THE DELIVERABLES
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Implementation
of the
Community
Work Programme
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Implement the Community Work Programme
Metric
1. 4.5 million
job
opportunities
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Nr of wards per municipality
where CWP has been
implemented
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1. 4.5 million
job
opportunities
1. 4.5 million
job
opportunities
1. 4.5 million
job
opportunities
Nr of work opportunities
identified that are “useful”
Nr of job opportunities
created
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% of job opportunities
created that are associated
with functional
cooperatives
Current
Value
Target
Value
New
Project
?
New
Project
2 or
more
New
Project
4.5
million
New
Project
30%
Key Action
1. Identify ‘useful work’ ranging from
1- 2 days a week or one week a
month initially targeted at the
poorest wards
2. Implement the CWP in 2 wards per
municipality
3. Create 4.5 million CWP work
opportunities by 2014
4. Ensure 30% of job opportunities
can be associated with functional
cooperatives at local level by 2014
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DEFINING THE DELIVERABLES
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Actions
supportive of the
Human
Settlements
outcomes
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Support the Human settlements Outcomes
Metric
1. Actions to
increased
densities in
metro’s and
large towns
2. Actions to
release of
public land for
low income
and affordable
housing
3. Expand
the national
upgrading
support
programme
4. Develop a
national
grant
coordination
framework
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Number of regulatory
amendments for spatial planning
reviewed/proposed by target date
Current
Value
Target
Value
New
project
To be
confirmed
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Ha of public land released
for low income and
affordable housing
New
project
?
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Nr of municipalities where
the NUSP has been
expanded to
New
project
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National Grant coordination
framework developed and
monitored by 31 March
2014
New
project
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31
March
2014
Key Action
1. Initiate actions to increase
densities in metro’s and large
towns by 2014
2. Initiate actions to release of “well
located” public land for low
income and affordable housing –
i.e. land with a 30 to 45 minute
journey to work and services and
using less than 8% of disposable
income for transport by 2014
3. Expand the NUSP in 45
municipalities
4. Develop and monitor a national
grant coordination framework that
will better align all grants that
impact on local communities
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DEFINING THE DELIVERABLES (CONT)
DEFINING
THE DELIVERABLES
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Deepen
democracy
through a refined
ward committee
model
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Deepen democracy through a refined ward committee model
Metric
1. Review
legislative
framework for
ward
committees
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• Adoption of new approach
for funding mechanisms of
ward committees
2. New
approach to
improve
funding of
ward
committees
3. Support
measures to
ensure
functionality
of ward
committees
Legislative framework
reviewed by 31 March 2011
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% of fully functional Ward
Committees
Current
Value
New
project
Target
Value
31/3/
2011
New
project
2014
New
project
90%
Key Action
1. Review
the
legislative
framework
for
ward
committees
to
broaden
participation of the various
sectors and propose new
responsibilities
and
institutional arrangements for
ward committees. This is a
priority for 2010.
2. Find a new approach to
improve the resourcing and
funding of the work of ward
committees
3. Put support measures in
place to ensure that at least
90% of all ward committees
are functional by 2014
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DEFINING THE DELIVERABLES (CONT)
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THE DELIVERABLES
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Administrative
and Financial
capability
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Improve the administrative and financial capabilities of municipalities
Metric
Unqualified
audit reports
Collection
rates
Outstanding
debtors
Reduce over
spending on
operational
budgets
Improve
expenditure
on capital
budgets
Improve exp
on ops &
maintenance
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Municipalities with
unqualified audits to
increase
Current
Value
Target
Value
53%
100%
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Average monthly collection
rate on billings to rise
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% of municipalities with
debtors more than 50% of
own revenue to be reduced
24%
12%
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% of municipalities that are
overspending on opex to
improve
8%
4%
% of municipalities underspending on capex to be
reduced
63%
30%
% of municipalities spending
less than 5% of opex on
repairs and maintenance to be
reduced
92%
45%
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90%
Key Action
1. Increase
number
of
municipalities
with
unqualified audit reports
2. Improve municipal monthly
collection rates on billings
3. Reduce outstanding debtors
4. Reduce over spending on
operational budgets
5. Improve
expenditure
on
capital budgets
6. Improve operational repairs
and maintenance budgets and
expenditure
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DEFINING THE DELIVERABLES (CONT)
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THE DELIVERABLES
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Administrative
and Financial
capability
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Improve the administrative and financial capabilities of municipalities
Metric
Strengthen
anticorruption
capacities of
municipalities
Review the
system of
reporting
jointly with
NT and
reduce
burden of
reporting
Anti-corruption legislation
reviewed by target date
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Revised system of reporting
for municipalities
Current
Value
Target
Value
New
project
31/3/
2011
New
project
2014
Key Action
1. Ensure greater transparency
and fight corruption in Local
Government
2. Improve and streamline the
municipal reporting and
monitoring system
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DEFINING THE DELIVERABLES (CONT)
DEFINING
THE DELIVERABLES
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Single window of
coordination
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Implement CoGTA as a single window of coordination
Metric
Draft amendments of
relevant acts submitted by
March 2011
Review LG
legislation
Intergovernmental
Fiscal
Framework
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Amendments submitted by
March 2011
Current
Value
Target
Value
New
project
31/3/
2011
New
project
2011
Key Action
1. Review local government
legislation, finalise changes in
relations to powers and
functions
2. Review the intergovernmental
fiscal framework before the
2011 local government
elections
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COMMISSION DISCUSSIONS
 Purpose of Commissions:
1. To initiate discussions on the seven Outputs
reflected in the draft Delivery Agreement for
Outcome 9;
2. Outputs, deliverables and high level activities
reflected in the Draft Delivery Agreement is based
on the agreement with the President and is nonnegotiable.
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COMMISSION DISCUSSIONS
3. To identify the strategic levers of change in the
provincial and municipal spheres that will support
the implementation of outputs contained in the
Delivery Agreement;
4. Develop a detailed understanding of the output and
plans required to achieve the Outputs; and
5. To clarify the role and responsibilities of national and
provincial government and municipalities towards
implementation of the activities reflected in the
Delivery Agreement.
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COMMISSION REPORT BACK
1. To provide an overall summary of discussions.
2. To confirm the:
a. High level activities
b. Actions and Key Role Players
c. Indicators
3.
To outline key tasks to be addressed by Focus Groups
4. To constitute focus groups for each of the seven
outputs reflected in the draft Delivery Agreement
and agree on representation of all relevant
stakeholders in the focus groups.
5. To agree on a date to convene the focus group within
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the next 2 weeks .
Way forward towards final delivery agreement
(1)
 Focus groups have the mandate to organise their
coordination arrangements in accordance with
the work related to the output, e.g. by assigning
subgroups, etc.
 Proposed Composition of focus groups:
 CoGTA Portfolio Head and relevant SMS members
 Provincial HOD and support team
 SALGA
 National Departments
 Relevant public entities/parastatals
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Way forward towards final delivery agreement
(2)
 Relevant CoGTA conveners for focus groups per
output:
 FG 1: Implement a differentiated approach to municipal
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financing, planning and support - George Seitisho
FG 2: Improving access to basic services – Ongama
Mahlawe
FG 3: Implementation of Community Work Programme –
Reckson Luvhengo
FG 4: Actions supportive of the Human Settlement
Outcome – Fortunate Makhubu
FG 5: Deepen democracy through a refined Ward
Committee Model – Tozi Faba
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Way forward towards final delivery agreement
(3)
 FG 6: Administrative and Financial Capability – Tumi Mketi
 FG 7: Single Window of Coordination – Yusuf Patel.
 Focus groups to be convened over next 2-3 weeks
 Technical Implementation Forum (administrative
leadership) to be convened to consider reports
from Focus Groups towards end of June.
 Implementation
Forum
(political
and
administrative
leadership)
convene
for
consideration and approval of delivery agreement
(before mid- July).
Thank you
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