Components of Organisational Transformation

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PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON WATER 03 04 MAY
2007 AT CAPE TOWN SANITATION IMPLEMENTATION
CHALLENGES FACED BY THE WSAs Presented by
Mihloti Hetisani Senior General Manager Local
Governance Sub-Department
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Contents

• Background
• National Targets
• Backlog figures
• Free Basic Services
• Challenges faced by WSAs
• Typical on-site scenarios of challenges
• Strategic Interventions

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Background

• Provision of basic services is a constitutional
  mandate
• A wide range of sanitation technologies are being
  implemented in the province and country wide.
• Funding mainly through MIG, and dedicated funding
  for schools and clinic sanitation
• The sanitation is implemented by WSAs, NGOs, the
  Housing Programme etc.
• Sanitation related issues are dealt with at
  CollaCom and the Free Basic Services Coordinating
  Committee.
• Sanitation is about dignity of our communities

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National Targets

• The national targets for achieving universal
  access in sanitation are
• Eradicate household sanitation backlog by 2010
• Eradicate school sanitation backlog by 2005
• Replace bucket system by 2007
• Eradicate backlogs in clinics by 2007
• School sanitation that is not met is a concern!
• The slow pace of clinic sanitation is worrying!
• Eradicating water backlog by 2008 is a challenge!

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WATER BACKLOGS PER HOUSEHOLDS 2006/07
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SANITATION BACKLOGS PER HOUSEHOLDS 2006/07
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POOR HOUSEHOLDS SERVED WITH FBW 2006/07
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CHALLENGES FACED BY WSAs
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Technical capacity of WSA

• Institutional inadequacy of Water Services
  Authorities (WSAs).
• Lack of relevant qualifications and experience.
• High staff turnover.
• Functional organizational structure that can
  produce credible strategic and operational plans.
• Technical capacity for project management, design
  and implementation

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Poor infrastructure

• The construction product is of low quality
• This result in reduced life span, high
  operational and maintenance cost of the
  infrastructure.
• This is caused by
• Incompetent service providers (consultants and
  contractors).
• Insufficient project management by WSAs, service
  providers and sector departments involved.
• Municipalities have no quality management system

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Insufficient funding

• Over reliant on grants
• The MIG funding in 2007/08 is about R 921.6 m for
  provision of all basic infrastructure in Limpopo
• MIG (F) B(75) P(15) N(5) E(5) M
  (0)
• Water Services 72 of B(75) 54 of MIG
  Allocation
• R 497.7 m out of R 921.6 m to be used for water
  sanitation.
• The backlog in basic sanitation is at 816,758 HH
• It will cost about R 3.3 bn to eradicate
  Sanitation backlog up to basic level of service,
  viz. VIP (_at_ R4,000/household).
• However, R 2.1 bn required to eradicate a water
  backlog only.
• Greater challenge is funding for new bulk
  services as well as upgrading, rehabilitation and
  maintenance of existing sanitation systems, e.g.
  STW

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Inappropriate Sanitation Technologies

• A wide range of sanitation types are currently
  being used including but not limited to
• Chemical toilets,
• Ordinary pit latrine,
• Ventilated improved pit latrine (VIP),
• Dehydrating and composting toilets,
• Aqua-privies,
• Flush toilets with full waterborne system
  connected to a treatment works or septic tanks.

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Inappropriate Sanitation Technologies (Cont.)

• Any chosen technology need to conform to the
  following
• Compliance with the set basic level of service.
• Affordability to the household.
• Low operation and maintenance (OM) requirements.
  
• The system should be manageable by the local
  community or households.

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Inappropriate Sanitation Technologies (Cont.)

• The system should also be sustainable over the
  long-term.
• Improvements to health and hygiene.
• Compliance with environmental protection.
• Ability of community based contractors to
  implement.

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Coordination Inadequate information

• Sanitation involves multi sectors
• Little attention is given on integrated planning
• Participation of all role players is proving to
  be a difficult task
• Sanitation issues are usually dealt with on an
  adhoc basis.
• No reliable information for planning (population
  information, service affordability, etc)
• No long term strategic infrastructure plans.

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Municipal priorities

• No Municipal Infrastructure Investment plans.
• Capital budget plans for most municipalities are
  not responding to current infrastructure
  pressures.
• Inconsistency in IDPs and budget plans
• Water Services Development Plans (WSDPs)
• Sanitation is commonly low on municipal plans
• Most WSDPs do not reflect the importance of
  proper sanitation

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• TYPICAL ON-SITE SCENARIOS OF SANITATION
  INFRASTRUCTURE CHALLENGES

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On-site Challenges

• Visits to some sanitation sites revealed the
  specific challenges.
• The sites visited include
• Modjadjiskloof in Greater Letaba,
• Lenyenye in Greater Tzaneen,
• Mhinga in Thulamela,
• Giyani Treatment works in Greater Giyani
• Modimolle sewer system Phagameng Ext 8 rural
  sanitation in Modimolle municipality.

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On-site Challenges (Cont.)

• The following were witnessed and discussed
• Sewage ponds can no longer cope with incoming
  volume due to population growth
• Effluent overflow to rivers especially during
  peak hours and thereby posing health risk.
• Oxidation ponds too close to residential sites
  causing unbearable smell (pollute the air)
• No fences to enforce controlled access into the
  waste water treatment plants
• The ponds are poorly managed and maintained

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On-site Challenges (Cont.)

• Households in rural areas have different types of
  sanitation structures. The majority of those
  that are constructed by households themselves do
  not meet basic standard.
• Some sanitation treatment works particularly in
  the small towns have exceeded their life span and
  are therefore continuously dysfunctional.
• Other treatment works were designed for the
  selected few during the time of the apartheid
  government. They are not coping with the current
  rapid growth in urban and semi urban areas.

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STRATEGIC INTERVENTIONS IN THE IMPLEMENATION OF
SANITATION
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Strategic Interventions

• Support municipalities with the alignment of
  PGDS NSDF and IDP
• - 8 growth points have been identified in line
  with PGDS
• - thus Infrastructure Investment Frameworks
  would
• be developed during the 2007/08 financial
  year.
• The Sanitation Symposium has developed action
  plans that are been refined to form part of the
  Provincial Water Services Strategic Plan
• - DLGH is exploring possibilities of importing
  Sanitation experts from
• India to assist in fast-tracking
  sanitation service delivery on various
• types of technologies such as sulabh flush
  compost toilet, etc.

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Strategic Interventions

• Deployment of technical personnel in
  Municipalities by DPLG,DLGH, DBSA and other
  institutions through coordinated and organized
  programmes.
• - This has resulted in MIG expenditure
  increasing by 18
• from 67.8 in 2005/06 to 85.8 in 2006/07
  Financial Year
• Continued support and monitoring for functional
  organograms in municipalities by DLGH.
• Sector departments to assist municipalities in
• - IDP processes (planning),
• - Project implementation (BP, design
  execution),
• - Asset management (O M).

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Strategic Interventions

• Municipalities to strictly implement performance
  management systems.
• Increase funding levels and more so to good
  performing WSA in order to reach universal access
  earlier in those municipalities.
• Immediate adoption of sustainable sanitation
  technologies informed by research and stakeholder
  participation.
• The department has developed a plan to assist 3
  Districts and growth points with the
  development of Municipal Infrastructure
  Investment Framework
• - These Investment Plans should also address
  sanitation

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Strategic Interventions

• Backlog verified and district profile reflecting
  backlog status developed by project consolidate
  unit
• - This figures are continuously verified
  updated by Municipalities
• Sector Depts.
• Assisted 15 PC municipalities with the analysis
  of their indigent policies from which a framework
  is developed
• Piloting the development of indigent register in
  Elias Motsoaledi local municipality
• Conducted Free Basic Electricity awareness in all
  5 districts

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• "With our little more effort and commitment, an
  additional infrastructure can be developed to
  afford another South African an access to basic
  services

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• THANK
• YOU