Developing a Township LED Strategy

29 Pages·2009·0.4 MB·English

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Gerryy Delanyy
4th September
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DDeevveellooppiinngg aa TToowwnnsshhiipp LLEEDD SSttrraatteeggyy
Overview of concepts and approaches
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Overview
• Some useful principles
• CChhoosiing a pllanniing process
• Keyy inggredients
• A checklist
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How important is LED, really?
• What do South Africans worry about most?
– ppoovveerrttyy,, ccrriimmee,, uunneemmppllooyymmeenntt
• 13,7 million have work
• 55,22 miilllliion needd workk
– 4,1 m unemployed plus 1,1 m “discouraged”
• Creating nearly half million jobs p a
– bbuutt 220000 000000 nneeww jjoobb sseeeekkeerrss eeaacchh yyeeaarr
– net gain is only 300 000 jobs a year!
What does that look like?
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LED part of overall jobs strategy
• Macro-economic policies
• RRegullattory enviironmentt
• Infrastructure developpment
• Targeted sector development
•• LLaabboouurr mmaarrkkeett iinntteerrvveennttiioonnss
– e,g., EPWP, subsidised job creation, skills
• Local economic development
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And becoming more important
• Macro-economic policies fundamental
• National programmes still important, but
insufficient
• Globalisation changing the rules, engines
ooff nnaattiioonnaall ggrroowwtthh aarree cciittiieess && rreeggiioonnss
• Emphasis and resources shifting to local
and regional development strategies
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What’s distinctive about LED
• Focus on place
– tteerrrriittoorryy nnoott sseeccttoorr
– economic space, not administrative unit
• BBuiilldds on llocall addvanttages && opporttuniittiies
• Bottom upp,, locallyy driven
– not top down “development in a locality”
– ddoonnee bbyy llooccaall ppeeooppllee nnoott ffoorr tthheemm
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1100 GGuiiddiing priinciiplles ffor LLEEDD
(Swinburn & Yatta, Africities 2006)
• Strategically planned
• Territorial approach
• Locally owned, designed and delivered
• Partnerships both for design and implementation
• Reinfforced by integrated government action
• Focus on conducive local business environment
• IIntegratedd mulltii-sector iiniitiiatiives
• Invest in hard, soft & institutional infrastructure
• GGrowtthh && rettenttiion off llocall bbusiinesses && peoplle
• Projects by all - public, private, non-government
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PPrroommoottiinngg rroobbuusstt && iinncclluussiivvee
local economies
• Improve market and public confidence in
muniiciipalliitiies
• Identifyy and expploit comppetitive advantagge
of all 52 municipal regions
•• IInntteennssiiffyy eenntteerrpprriissee ssuuppppoorrtt
• Introduce sustainable developmental
community investment
National Framework for LED in South Africa, DPLG, 2007
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When developing a strategy
Two important considerations
• The content – obviously
•• TThhee pprroocceessss – lleessss oobbvviioouussllyy