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Partner: Governments: Government of South Africa
Local Authorities: Selected municipalities, SALGA and its Provincial Structures in the two Provinces
International Organizations: UN-DESA, UNDP, UN-HABITAT |
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Cost: US$972,000 |
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The Capacity-Building for Local Governance (CBLG) Programme was jointly developed by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) and UN-HABITAT for the then Department of Provincial Affairs and Constitutional Development with funding support from UNDP. The overall objective of the Programme was to assist the Government of South Africa to implement the Local Government Transformation Programme launched in early 1999, which was designed to address issues of capacity-building in pilot local authorities in two provinces: North West and Northern Province (now Limpopo Province) through support to the transformation process. The Programme had the following three components: improvement in service delivery; institutional capacity building; and integrating the rights approach to development. On the whole, the programme seeks to contribute towards achieving sound developmental local governance by enhancing the capacity for integrated development planning, local economic development, performance management systems, financial viability and management, project management and a culture of collective civic responsibility.
- Strategic advisory services to senior management at municipal, provincial and national level to strengthen their operational capacity.
- Building capacity on financial management and on competence to respond to the demand placed on local government as a development agency.
- On-the-job training of officials and councillors on local government administration.
- Advocacy and raising awareness among councillors, officials and members of community development committees on crosscutting issues: "Rights approach to development", gender, environment, HIV/Aids, and the relationship between traditional leaders and elected officials.
- Building capacity on appropriate Information Systems and Technologies to enhance financial sustainability of local governance institutions.
- Establishment of representative ward committees for community empowerment.
- A CBLG team was established under UN-DESA management. UN-HABITAT provided technical inputs for the review of the Integrated Development Planning process and Local Economic Development components.
- Three municipalities have established capacity-building teams and prepared situation analyses to inform the design and implementation of the capacity-building strategy.
- Provincial Local Government Departments of North West and Limpopo have been involved in the Programme’s activities.
- A National Capacity-building Strategy was drafted for consideration nationally.
- The new Department of Provincial and Local Government has called for the redesign of the programme to take into account the changes in Local Government in South Africa, which were highlighted in the implementation of the programme designed in 1999. The role of local municipal governments in capacity- building should be clarified in the programme, which is being re-designed.
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