Transcript Implications of the NDP for provincial and local governments

NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
2030
Our future make it work
Overview of the NDP and
what it means for women
02 May 2013
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Background
“The establishment of the National Planning Commission is our promise to the
people of South Africa that we are building a state that will grow the economy,
reduce poverty and improve the quality of life of our citizens.”
Why Plan
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To frame long term national development objectives and enhance policy
coherence and coordination.
To better protect interests of the future which are poorly represented by
markets e.g. environment, and help shift economies from an unsustainable
inherited path.
Mandate
• To take a critical, cross cutting and long term view of South Africa and
advise the President, Cabinet and the country on a long term vision and
plan.
• To engage across society on the vision and plan.
Diagnostic
report
• Elements of a vision statement
• Combating poverty and inequality as key objectives
• 9 challenges: poor educational and health outcomes, massive
unemployment, crumbling infrastructure, divided nation, resource intensive
economy, spatial patterns that marginalise the poor, corruption, uneven
public service
Consultation
• 4 more challenges added: community safety, rural development, regional
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integration and social protection.
On 15 August the President said:
“The National Planning Commission will from today:
• Advise government on
implementation of Plan
• Work with DPM&E to
turn Plan into targets to be
incorporated into future
performance and delivery
agreements
• ... political parties, companies,
school governing bodies, trade
unions and many sectors, should
also incorporate many aspects
of the NDP in their own long-term planning exercises and
implementation plans”
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The vision:
Now in 2030 we live in a country which we have remade... We invest in our efforts
and are not waiting in disengaged expectation....Because we are impatient to
succeed, we work with painstaking rigour.... We hold the Constitution of our
country as the covenant guide to a fair society... We experience fulfilment in life,
living it in the successful society we are creating.... We know our leaders as we
have elected them and pledged them into office: They are wise in the use of our
wealth.... But our gift of leaders extends far beyond politics. We have them in
abundance in every avenue of life......Now, in 2030, our story keeps growing as if
spring is always with us. Once, we uttered the dream of a rainbow. Now we see it,
living it. It does not curve over the sky. It is refracted in each one of us.
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The pillars of the NDP
The Plan is founded on six pillars:
• Mobilisation of all South Africans
• Active engagement of citizens in
their own development
• Expansion of the economy &
making growth inclusive
• Building of key capabilities
(human, physical & institutional)
• Building a capable and
developmental state
• Fostering of strong leadership
throughout society
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NDP Headline Numbers
2010
2030
Economy: R1.84 trillion
-+R5.27 trillion
Employment: 13 million
24 million
Unemployment: 25.3%
6%
Poverty: 39% (R418 in 2009 0%
prices)
Per capita income: R50 000 R120 000
Inequality: 0.69 (gini)
0.60
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Specific NDP proposals on Gender
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Proposed measures for Gender issues 1
• Values and Attitudes
– Government must strengthen existing campaigns for gender equity,
and against gender violence. This campaigns must be sustained and
focus on changing attitudes and behaviour
– An analyses of challenges facing the South African family will provide
a basis for identifying appropriate policy interventions to make
families better able to provide a loving, supportive, and safe
environment; an environment in which values such as tolerance,
diversity, non-racialism, non-sexism and equity are fostered.
– The fostering of Constitutional values though schools and the media
should help create a tolerant and gender-sensitive South Africa;
empowering people to challenge prejudice and discriminatory
practices
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Proposed measures for Gender issues 2
• Legislation and institutions
– Government must address gaps and weaknesses in legislation. For
example, the Traditional Leadership and Governance Framework Act
(2003) entrenches patriarchal values and limits women’s participation
in traditional governance. Rather than a separate Gender Equality
Bill, the Electoral Act (1998) could be amended to require political
parties to ensure gender parity in sustained campaigns that focus on
changing attitudes and behaviour in relation to racist, homophobic
and xenophobic tendencies
– The Commission of Gender Equality and the ministry should develop
joint targets, indicators and timelines for monitoring and evaluating
progress towards gender equality. These must be realistic, and
should be accomplished through proper gender mainstreaming in
departments.
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Proposed measures for Gender issues 3
• Budgeting and representation
– Local government should include more women at representative level, as
well as in shaping budgetary priorities. Women are frequently
marginalised in local politics and excluded from decision-making
processes. Women’s participation in integrated development planning is
uneven.
• Employment
– Public Work employment should have a specific focus on women.
– Social, cultural, religious and educational barriers for women to enter the
job market should be addressed. Improved access to safe drinking water,
electricity and quality early childhood education, could reduce the burden
of domestic work and so make it easier for women to seek job
opportunities.
– Security of tenure should be created for communal farmers, especially
women.
– Individual business should develop plans to at least double the size of
their business, and set employment targets that include employment
equity targets.
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Women and children feel protected
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Strengthen the criminal justice system: Correct implementation of
recommendations in the Review of the South African Criminal Justice System
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Make the police service professional. link the police code of conduct and a code of
professionalism to promotion and disciplinary regulations. Recruitment should attract
competent, skilled professionals through a two-track system
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Demilitarise the police and review the culture of the police force.
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Increasing rehabilitation of prisoners and reducing recidivism
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Build safety using an integrated approach. tackle the fundamental causes of
criminality. This would mean mobilising state and non-state capacities and resources
at all levels, and citizen involvement and co-responsibility.
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Increase community participation in safety. Civil-society organisations and civic
participation are essential elements of a safe and secure society. Local government
legislation provides for community safety centres to enable safe, healthy
communities. These should be established where communities – especially women,
children and the youth – are most vulnerable.
the
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Women depend on Government
Services
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Key priorities to build state capacity (1)
• Professionalise the public service to ensure it is immersed in
the developmental agenda but insulated from undue political
interference
• Make the public service and local government careers of
choice
• Ensure staff at all levels have the authority, experience and
support they need to do their jobs
• Develop technical and specialist professional skills
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Key priorities to build state capacity (2)
• Strengthen delegation, accountability and oversight
• Improve interdepartmental coordination
• Take a proactive approach to improving relations
between the three spheres of government
• Strengthen local government
• Address the obstacles to state-owned enterprises
achieving their developmental potential.
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The NDP and leadership
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Leadership Characteristics
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The ability to lead by example and to follow rules that apply to everyone.
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Honesty, integrity and trustworthiness. Leaders are able to combine the
ability to hold fast to a core set of values as enshrined in the Constitution
with embracing change and agitating for transformation
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The capacity to innovate, manage change, build enough support to drive
an “essential” and not necessarily popular agenda, communicating with
people, keeping them interested and informed.
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The ability to listen, especially to those with a different opinion, perspective
and or priorities; tolerance, patience, openness to giving and receiving
criticism, a willingness to admit mistakes, and an ability to re-examine
one’s own presuppositions.
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Ability to promote meaningful inclusion, helping to overcome barriers
associated with class, ethnicity, gender, disability and other factors of
exclusion. Leaders must seek to empower the otherwise powerless,
building bridges to other sectors of society, including business, civil society,
and faith-based communities, as well as to all levels of government.
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Overview of selected sector specific
NDP proposals in relation to
increasing economic opportunities
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Proposed measures in relation to jobs
• Promote manufacturing in areas of competitive advantage
• Grow agricultural output and focus on agro-processing
• Improve the functioning of the labour market to make it easier for young
work seekers to get jobs
• Better coordination and implementation of economic policies
• Partnerships with business to increase investment in labour intensive areas
• Lower the cost of living and of doing business
• Undertake small business reforms
• Public Employment Programmes must have a specific focus on women
• Individual business should develop plans to at least double the size of their
business, and set employment targets that include employment equity
targets.
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Labour market reforms
• Active labour market proposals
– Transport vouchers for school leavers
– Provide incentives for placement agencies to recruit, prepare
and place matriculants
– Wage subsidy to lower risk of firms taking on new work seekers
• Labour reforms
– Increase resources to the CCMA and the labour court
– Introduce simpler dispensations for small businesses
– Use probation as intended in the LRA
– Ease procedures around dismissal for misconduct and
indiscipline
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Transforming the real economy
• Transforming the structure of the economy the state will
– provide incentives,
– establish a procurement regime that stimulates domestic investment up and
down stream
– promote research and development, and skills development
– Invest in infrastructure
– Invest in skills development
• Sectors to be promoted:
– The agro cluster encompassing downstream processing of foodstuffs and
beverages, and upstream suppliers of inputs into food manufacturing (such as
packaging, containers and preservatives) and into farming (such as fertiliser,
seed and capital equipment)
– capital-intensive processed minerals, metals and chemicals
– construction and general infrastructure
– green economy
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Economic Infrastructure (1)
Need to raise public infrastructure spending to 10% of GDP
• Coal
• Electricity
o Invest in a new heavy-haul rail
corridor to the Waterberg coal field
o Strengthen coal line to Richards
Bay
o Promote cleaner coal technologies
o Reduce carbon emissions in the
supply of electricity
o Evaluate costs and benefits of
nuclear option
• Gas
o Put investment programme in
place for water resource
development and wastewater
management for major centres by
2012
o Use regional utilities to deliver
services where municipalities are
weak
o Enable exploratory drillings for
methane bed and shale gas
reserves
o Develop infrastructure for the
import of liquid natural gas
• Liquid fuels
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Water
o Upgrade refineries to meet clean
fuel standards
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Economic Infrastructure (2)
• Construction/Infrastructure
o Support the civil construction and supplier industries in their export
efforts
o Intensify support to supplier industries
o Expand public funding for alternative types of low-income housing
• Transport
o Upgrade the Durban-Gauteng freight corridor
o Expand the coal, iron ore and manganese lines
o Improve commuter rail fleet
• ICT
o Full policy review in the ICT sector, and a more comprehensive and
integrated e-strategy
o Ensure access to low-cost high speed international bandwidth with open
access policies
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Rural economy
• Focus on improving small scale and commercial agriculture:
– Expand irrigated agriculture
• Labour intensive: citrus, Table and dried grapes, sub tropical fruits, vegetables;
• high potential: macadamias, pecan nuts, rooibos tea, olives, figs, cherries and
berries;
• high linkages grain, oilseed and livestock industries
– Conditions :
• Substantially increase investment in water resource and irrigation
infrastructure where the natural resource base allows.
• South Africa maintains or grows its market share: trade negotiations and
sanitary and phytosanitary agreements are key to this
• Effective institutions: including insurance, tenure, water licensing, agriculture
department, extension officers etc.
• Innovative solutions e.g. innovative market linkages even to institutions such
as hospitals and schools, different forms of financing (giving successful
applicants a rent-free probation for two or three years. If farmers prove capable,
they will move to a long-term lease of about 40 years with the full commercial
rental phased in over four years.) Farmer-to-farmer skills transfer, agricultural
extension and training by the state in partnership with industry
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Rural economy
• Fast tracking land reform
– No distorting land markets or business confidence in the
agribusiness sector.
– Sustainable production human capabilities precede land transfer
through incubators, learnerships, mentoring, apprenticeships and
accelerated training in agricultural sciences.
– monitoring institutions to protect land markets from opportunism,
corruption and speculation.
– Bring land-transfer targets in line with fiscal and economic realities
to ensure that land is successfully transferred.
– Offer white commercial farmers and organised industry bodies the
opportunity to significantly contribute to the success of black
farmers through mentorships, chain integration, preferential
procurement and meaningful skills transfer.
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Rural economy
• Developing non-agricultural activities
– Mining: emphasis of the mining charter needs to be increasingly on human
resource development, local economic development and procurement.
– Opportunities for moving up the value chain exist in higher-value, highervolume external markets, both national and beyond. To take full advantage
of these opportunities, smaller and poorer producers need to adopt
cooperative strategies that give them greater collective market power in
accessing value chains and regarding minimum supply volumes.
• encourage supermarkets to open up value chains by partnering with local
producers in rural areas
• Develop and incentivise the development of niche markets to promote smaller
producers.
– Fishing in coastal areas
• sustainable fishing,
• allocation of viable fishing rights,
• Review ways to optimise fisheries’ policies to determine the best way to
allocate rights
– Tourism: institutional support, involvement of local communities, arts and
crafts market......... the size of the creative-arts industry is expected to
grow
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Transition to a Low-carbon economy
• Focus on more energy-efficient buildings and building
techniques.
– Target is zero emission building standards by 2030.
• Invest in research and human capacity in climate change
adaptation and climate modelling, agricultural technologies
• Establish Independent Climate Change Centre to support
actions of government, business and civil society.
• Invest in renewable energy technologies.
– Target is for at least 20 000 MW of renewable energy to be
contracted by 2030.
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Spatial transformation (1)
• Tackle inherited spatial divisions in accordance
with principles of spatial justice, sustainability,
resilience, quality and efficiency
• Contain sprawl and increase densities (but mitigate
against rising costs of land for the poor)
• Investment in public transport should be actively
used for the spatial transformation of towns and
cities
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Spatial transformation (2)
• Housing programmes must be aligned with the
longer term objective of transforming spatial
patterns
• Reduce urban footprints and progressively increase
green production, consumption and transportation
of goods
• More attention to design and quality of public realm
- all new developments should enhance the ideal of
creating vibrant, diverse and valued places.
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South Africa in the region and the
world
• Greater regional economic integration is necessary for long
term development
• Obstacles include infrastructure, border post corruption,
protectionism and weak regional institutions
• Strengthen global linkages and facilitate break into fast
growing markets
• Develop capacity across institutions with responsibility to
implement foreign policy
• Greater collaboration between govt, business and research
institutions working the foreign policy arena
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Overview of selected sector specific
NDP proposals in relation to reducing
inequality of opportunity and building
capabilities
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Education, skills and innovation
• Expand pre-school education to 2 years and put in
place an under 3 nutrition programme
• Need clear accountability chain, capacitate district
offices to help schools deliver quality results, hold
schools accountable for performance, Introduce
performance agreements for principals, reward
good/improved performance, eradicate infrastructure
backlogs.
• Reduce union and political interference in
appointments
• Improve quality of teachers; in the short term recruit
foreign teachers, grant 7 year working permits for
graduates at universities; introduce effective inservice
training , continue with Funza Lushaka
• University must develop capacity to provide quality
undergraduate teaching,
• All students who qualify for the National Student
Financial Aid Scheme must access full funding
through loans and bursaries, (recovery to be done
through SARS)
• Improve quality of FET education while expanding the
size of the sector
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Health and wellness
• Long term health determinants
must be tackled through
– Exercise, nutrition and diet,
curbing alcohol and substance
abuse, changing sexual
behaviour
• NHI support, though efforts
need to focus on the building
blocks
– HR capacity in the sector
– Improving the quality of public
health care
– Lowering the costs of private
health care
– Building a district health system
complete with patient database
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Social protection
• Defining social floor
• Long term vision for comprehensive social
security
• Social security reforms have to balance
broadening coverage with rising
employment
– Getting this sequencing wrong will result in job
losses
• Need for alignment and rationalisation of
institutions
• Short term reforms focusing on broadening
coverage of existing social security benefits
• Longer term priorities include mandatory
savings, risk benefits and health insurance
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Corruption
Three pronged strategy
• Enforcement
– Ensure that anti-corruption agencies have requisite resources and
independence
• Prevention
– Focus on systems, institutional arrangements and accountability
• Education in society
– Understand social dimensions of corruption
Procurement reforms
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Differential rules for different types of tenders
Use technology and transparency to curb corruption
Audit value for money in procurement contracts
Clarify rules of business interests of public servants
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Social cohesion and nation building
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Despite diverging interests, success will
depend on building partnerships across
society
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Rallying people around the Constitution
and its values
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Reducing inequality of opportunity and
outcomes
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Redress
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Active citizenship through enhancing
communication channels between
government and society
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Broad based leadership across society
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Critical Approaches to Implementation
Integrate NDP into government plans for 2013, and
make existing government work consistent with the
Plan
Identify, at the outset, areas of responsibility and
accountability
Prioritise critical steps to unlock implementation
Sustain broad public support and use social dialogue
to construct cross-sectoral partnerships and set
benchmarks
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Not just a government Plan
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Practical suggestions
• Displaying the preamble of the Constitution and the
Constitution prominently displayed in all business
entities; Rewarding Non African workers for learning
up to conversational competence, an African
language; Rewarding workers for practising active
citizenship i.e. accountants couching pupils from
neighbouring schools on Saturdays;
• Participating in local business development forums
to help realise the local economic development
objective of municipalities, forums to discuss the
social floor and the social wage,
• Defining core capacities and competencies business
seeks in non graduates and non artisan employees
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Practical suggestions cont. 2
• Develop plans to enhance local procurement and expand
growth of SMMEs and MMEs, Develop applications for
SMMEs for ease of banking and bookkeeping
• Strengthen regional investment and integration initiatives,
constitute a strong business team to support a more
effective integration of regional markets
• Make proposals for the more effective regulation of ICT
infrastructure.
• Pledge and create an environment for ethical behaviour
and zero tolerance to corruption
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Thank you
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