WHEN THE SUN RISES

WE WORK HARD TO DELIVER

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, RURAL

DEVELOPMENT, LAND & ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS

COMPREHENSIVE RURAL DEVELOPMEMT PROGRAMME (CRDP)

“People Centred Sustainable Development”

PRESENTED AT UNPAN WORKSHOP

10 – 11 JUNE 2015

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REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA

MPUMALANGA IS PREDOMINANTLY RURAL

DEVELOPMENT GAPS

• Non-aligned and non-informed project interventions, resulting in Lack of community sense of ownership.

• Little or no local economic growth and empowerment due to continuous use of consultants who parachute in with their people and material and shoot out with all profits

• Inadequate project intervention impact perpetuate vulnerability of targeted groups to the current socio-economic ills.

• Development interventions are of ad-hoc nature and as such yield unsustainable Impact

• Unclear project exit strategies e.g. skills development and empowerment programmes , thus creating continuous Dependency Syndrome .

• Departments and other institutions work in SILOS resulting in duplication and uncoordinated interventions.

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT CHOSE TO INTERVENE THROUGH CRDP

CRDP AS IMPLEMENTED IN MPUMALANGA, SOUTH AFRICA

It is a BASKET of services from all

stakeholders working together

converging into a CRDP Site

TEAM & INTEGRATED APPROACH

• One target

• One strategy

• One Implementation Plan

• Efficient & effective use of resources

• Sustainable Development

• Empowerment of people

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Economic Vibrant

Community

HOUSEHOLD PROFILING DONE BY LOCAL YOUTHS (DSD & DRDLR)

• In order to ensure proper

planning & beneficiary

identification, household profiling

was conducted in 116 664

households from all wards of 8

CRDP municipalities,

• Community Development workers

and NARYSAC are participating

in profiling

National Rural Youth Service Corps Participants – Thembisile Hani

TARGETED SITES AND ROLLOUT

ALL 18 Mun

Poverty 1 Mun

Interventi

on

7 Mun

Interventi

on

8 Mun

Interventi

on

VIBRANT, EQUITABLE AND SUSTAINABLE RURAL COMMUNITIES WITH

FOOD SECURITY FOR ALL

POVERTY STRICKEN AREAS

ECONOMIC VIBRANT

COMMUNITIES

LESS

HIG

LESS

HIGH

Guys we need to develop rural areas

Dept 1 Dept 2 Municipality 1

It is not in my mandate

DEMOLISHING THE STRONG WALL OF SILOS

TYPICAL SILOS IN THE WORK PLACE

COMPREHENSIVE RURAL DEVELOPMENT APPROACH -

INTEGRATED

PARTNERSHIP MODEL • Identify targets for development (Rural underdeveloped Communities – 8

CRDP sites)

• Identify challenges facing

communities (poverty, inequality & unemployment)

• Plan intervention to reverse the

current status (Outcome 7 – projects along 6 outcomes)

• Team implementation

• Positive results (Jobs creation, Skills development, Enterprise

Development, Local economic growth)

PATIENT

COUNCIL OF STAKEHOLDERS

Executive

Mayor/ Delegate

PROVINCIAL TECHNICAL TASK TEAM

PROVINCIAL TASK TEAM

Provincial HODs

Private Sector

Public Entities

National Depts

House of Traditional

Leaders

District & Local

Municipal Managers

POLITICAL TASK TEAM (PTT)

Political Task Team

MECs

District Exec Mayors

Other Stakeholders

House of Trad Leaders

• The strength of CRDP is in the institutional arrangement set up

• The programme receives support from the Provincial Leadership through

Political Leadership (EXCO, Legislature & NCOP)

• This helps to shorten the period of addressing bottlenecks and challenges

• Oversight is provided timorously and interventions are informed by first

hand observation

• Technical Task Team ensures that programme is implemented in a team

effort

• Council of Stakeholder empowers local people to own their development

and as such develop sense of ownership

• Municipality Executive Mayors pioneer implementation on the ground

making integration with IDP seamless.

• In order to ensure proper planning, household profiling was conducted in

116 664 households from all wards of 8 CRDP municipalities

THE RECIPE OF SUSTAINABILITY

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CLEAR RURAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

• Community mobilisation (Inclusive Development)

• Community Led Structures (Empowerment)

• Training of people from local communities (Sustainability)

– Manufacturing (Brick making, Window frames, Sewing, Fence)

– Skills Development (bricklaying, roofing, plastering & tiling, plumbing, farming, hospitality,

landscaping)

• Establishment of cooperatives

• Local Procurement (Local Economic Growth) – Bricks, pavers, fruit & vegetable, labour and sub-contracting

Guaranteed Sustainability People Centred

APPROVED Mpumalanga CRDP Strategy (*30% minimum investment to

be benefitted by local community)

APPROVED “CRDP Way” model in implementing infrastructure projects

in CRDP municipalities (by local people).

APPROVED Provincial Preferential Procurement Policy for Cooperatives

(encourage local supply of labour & material)

TRAIN local people on the trades which will be needed during

development (investment on skills)

APPROVED institutional arrangements – Local Council of Stakeholders

(LCoS), District CoS (DCoS), Provincial CoS (PCoS)

MPUMALANGA PROVINCIAL STRATEGIC INTERVENTIONS

(Ensuring Sustainability and Replicability)

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Ward Council of Stakeholder

Strengthening People’s Involvement

MPUMALANGA CRDP WINNING INGRIDIENTS

• Planning takes place starting from LCoS throughout all spheres of govt within the Province

• Local people trained on the skills and trades that empowers them to participate in their own development – (invest in skills)

• Stakeholders (Depts, Municipalities, State Agencies, Private Sector) cooperating and partnering in service delivery implementation

• Close oversight and monitoring by Provincial Leadership and implementers

EXAMPLES OF END-RESULTS OF THE PROVINCE WORKING

TOGETHER

LIVESTOCK IMPROVEMENT (DARDLA, IDC, Universities, Traditional

Leaders)

Livestock Improvement is a programme that started

in 2011 to assist farmers to improve their livestock.

Currently 1 132 cattle,26 ewes and rams, and 33

boars & sows were delivered to farmers

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Steenbok Feedlot - Nkomazi

Bull at Masibabisane Coop- Thembisile Hani

Green Farm Project - Bushbuckridge

VALUE CHAIN POSSIBLE (DOE, DARDLEA, DEDT, DWS)

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Bushbuckridge Veg Assemble Point

NATIONAL

SCHOOL

NUTRITION

PROGRAMME

cooperatives also benefit from

these ventures.

DECENT HOUSES FOR PEOPLE (DHS, DEDT, CoGTA)

Before - Mkhondo

Before - Chief Albert Luthuli

PHP Interventions – Jabulani, Mkhondo

2 856 jobs created

33 880 beneficiaries

Local Brick

Manufacturing

Local

Labour

COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT

• Housing

• Water

Development

(Irrigation &

Consumption)

• Food security

• Market linkage

ROADS IMPROVEMENT – Cooperation & Partnerships (DPWRT, DRDLR &

Municipalities)

• One of the major hindrances to rural development

is lack of access roads. This lead to ineffectiveness

of economic activities in the municipalities.

Improving access roads in rural communities

triggers economic growth.

• Paving of streets has been adopted to increase job

opportunities.

• Total of 369.57 km roads were worked

Paving of road in Dr Pixley ka Isaka Seme

• 4 867 Jobs Created

• 98 125 people benefited

• 369 km roads upgraded

• Bricks

manufactured by

cooperatives

ON-JOB TRAINING – Investing in skills (MRTT & DARDLA)

• The CRDP strategy emphasised

the development of skills as the

key factor of development.

• The programme therefore focuses

on skills training and development

in all CRDP sites.

• 1072 trained learners are

placed at different projects for on-

job training

• They work on real

projects to obtain real

experience (CIDB,

NHRBC)

• This is the recipe for

sustainability since

these trained people

apply their skills in

their own community.

• Skills stay in the

community forever

and projects survive

after Government

intervention come to

an end.

MRTT learners – Thembisile Hani

MRTT learners – Thembisile Hani

MTL learners – Nkomazi

CONSTRUCTION OF BRIDGES – EMPOWERMENT OF LOCAL PEOPLE

No Access to basic services Jobs, Skills & Access for local people

LOCAL PEOPLE TRAINED TO BUILD – BUILD ALLOCATED HOUSES – LOCAL COOPERATIVES PRODUCED BRICKS – BRICKS USED TO BUILD HOUSES

HOUSES FOR RELOCATED

HOUSEHOLDS

PRIMARY HEALTH (DOH, DPWRT)

Mbhetjeka CHC – Chief Albert Luthuli

Perdekop CHC - Dr Pixley ka Isaka Seme

Hluvukani CHC - Bushbuckridge

• Local Labour

• Local Material

Supply

• Training

• 24hr Operation

SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOR RURAL PEOPLE

• Using local labour is cheaper

• Streets are paved or tarred

• Solar streets light (considering low incomers)

• Environmental friendly energy

MARAPYANE COLLEGE – DELIVERED CRDP WAY

• “Huge Saving”

Marapyane Collage

FENCE MANUFACTURING COOPS

1. Fence manufacturing cooperatives were

established to supply fence for:

• Food Gardens

• Grazing Camps

• Households

2. Government provides the market, locals

provide the fence

3. Sense of ownership realized

4. People get employed

5. New business enterprises established

and grow

FENCE MANUFACTURING COOPS

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1. Fence manufacturing cooperatives were

established to supply fence for:

• Food Gardens

• Grazing Camps

• Households

2. Government provides the market, locals

provide the fence

3. Sense of ownership realized

4. People get employed

5. New business enterprises established

and grow

Mnyamane Cooperative - Bushbuckridge

SUSTAINABLE JOB CREATION (MRTT, CoGTA, DPWRT)

• Jobs creation is central focus on

CRDP

– 81 447 jobs created to date

– 50% of these jobs are for

women

– 30% for youth

– 0.2% people with disabilities

CWP Workers - Dr Pixley Ka Isaka Seme

MRTT Skills Training - Dr Pixley Ka Isaka Seme

COUNCIL OF COUNCIL OF STAKEHOLDERS

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The success of CRDP in Mpumalanga lies on the set up of its institutional arrangement

• Council of stakeholders in each CRDP municipality

• Sound decisions are taken in these forums

• People are empowered

• Services delivery is rooted in the local space and development is sustainable

CRDP TURNED INTO JOBS CREATION MACHINERY

•Pilot 2009

•4 Wards in Mkhondo

•447 jobs

•45 Trained

2009/10

•Pilot Expansion to all 19 wards

• 9 000 jobs

• 100 Trained

2010/11 •Rollout to 6 more municipalities

•Selected wards to a total of 35.

• 14 000

• 885 Trained

2011/12

• Rollout to all wards in the 7 Municipalities to a total of 188.

• 28 000 jobs

• 1 950 Trained

2012/13 •Addition of Dipaleseng Municipality with 6 wards making a total of 194 Wards

• 39 000 jobs

• 1 950 Trained

2013/14

CRDP IMPACT

Indicator Impact in CRDP areas

Municipal area 2009 2012 Trend

Percentage of people in poverty

Bushbuckridge 49.9% 40.1%

Chief Albert Luthuli 49.0% 40.3%

Dipaleseng 48.8% 42.9%

Dr JS Moroka 44.4% 35.3%

Dr Pixley Ka Isaka Seme 43.9% 36.4%

Mkhondo 65.4% 63.3%

Nkomazi 65.1% 56.9%

Thembisile Hani 47.7% 40.8%

Number of people in poverty

Bushbuckridge 263 856 249 882

Chief Albert Luthuli 91 842 74 538

Dipaleseng 20 407 18 412

Dr JS Moroka 110 015 88 629

Dr Pixley Ka Isaka Seme 36 814 30 375

Mkhondo 105 827 111 816

Nkomazi 249 882 225 441

Thembisile Hani 142 877 128 890

Note: * Actual expenditure from 2011/12 to 2012/13 and budget for 2013/14

Source: IHS Global Insight Regional eXplorer (REX)

• Political and management leadership support. The programme and all its innovations have been

getting unwavering support from the political leadership and management from all provincial departments

• Local engagement. In addition to providing substantial matching funds to support rural development,

local governments have worked to ensure integration into local development planning, rather than being

stand-alone, top-down rural development initiative. Local government financing was also instrumental in

supporting the capacity development needed for the CRDP.

• Catalytic finance. While public funding accounted for well over 90 percent of total programme finance at

the start, by 2013 private sector was contributing almost 40 percent of the total funding via social

investment. Without this funding, the government alone could not have been scaled the programme.

• Community mobilization and local partnerships. Community empowerment has been key to ensuring

both effective local service delivery and longer-term sustainability. Training and collaboration with private

sector and local municipalities provided local entrepreneurs with better access to markets than it had

been before the intervention.

• Capacity development at all levels. The Programme focused on capacity development at all levels help

community members to better design, construct, and manage enterprises.

• Integrated planning and implementation. As a basket of services stakeholders plan together and align

their investments in line with identified community needs

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CRDP IN A SNAP SHOT

SOME NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS

• Championed by the Provincial Leadership (Politically & Technically)

• Managed to bring all stakeholders around one table from planning to implementation

• Community are participating in their own development throughout value chain of projects

• Community people trained in different trades

• National Departments (DRDLR & DAFF) benchmarked on Mpumalanga CRDP model

and MINMEC instructed all 9 province to use the same model for implementation of

Outcome 7.

• Implemented by team of representatives from all provincial depts., municipalities, state

agencies and House of Traditional Leaders

• Awarded several awards as best innovative partnership programme by CPSI, 2nd runner

up at AAPSIA

• Won other 13 Awards for its coordination model and jobs creation approach

PLACE OF THE RISING SUN

NORTHWEST CRDP VISITED MPUMALANGA CRDP

Farmers passing lessons to

North West Delegation

Northwest CRDP delegation

with Local Cooperative

ALL THANKS TO CPSI FOR UNEARTHING THE

INNOVATION AND MAKE IT KNOWN ALL OVER.

SILOS REPLACED BY PARTNERSHIPS

• Partnerships • Coordination • Integration

THANK YOU – OBRIGADO - MERSI

Contact details:

Presenter: Maanda Dagada Physical: 7 Government Boulevard, Building 6, Riverside Park, Nelspruit, 1200 Postal: Private Bag X11219, Nelspruit, 1200 Tel: 013 766 6149 Fax: 013 766 8303 Cell: 076 503 6848 Web: http://dardlea.mpg.gov.za Email: dmaanda@mpg.gov.za :