Sustainable Development in Provincial Growth

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Sustainable Development in Provincial Growth
Development Strategies

• Presentation to the Western Cape
• Sustainable Development Conference
• June 2005
• By Sibusiso Xaba
• Deputy Director General Economic Development
  Planning
• Gauteng Department of Finance Economic Affairs

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Outline

• Sustainable Development
• Growth Strategies
• The Growth Development Strategy for the Gauteng
  Province
• Some challenges
• Possible solutions
• Conclusions.

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Sustainable Development

• Meeting the needs of the present generations,
  without compromising ( perhaps even creating a
  better platform) the ability of future
  generations to meet their needs
• Balancing the needs for economic growth, social
  development and environmental integrity.

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Provincial Growth Development Strategies

• Prepared by agreement in the Presidents
  Co-ordinating Council
• Prepared and adopted in various fashions,
  responding to the specific condition of each
  Province
• PGDSs take various forms and emphases as per the
  needs of each Province
• Most Provinces have completed or are completing
  their PGDS processes
• In 2004, the President announced the initiatives
  to align the NSDP, the PGDSs and IDPs,
  essentially to realize a better aligned planning
  system in the country
• DPLG is currently in a process of preparing
  guidelines on PGDSs.

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Provincial Growth Development Strategies

• However, some common emerging issues
• PGDSs should be strategic development
  frameworks
• PGDSs should make choices on growth trajectories
  cannot be everything we do
• PGDSs should give direction a level of
  predictability to various sectors of society
  regarding growth and development
• PGDSs should seek to harness the energies,
  skills and resources of all the sectors of
  society towards the achievement of the Provinces
  development priorities
• PGDSs should be linked to National
  (International) development priorities
• PGDSs are not spatial plans, but are development
  plans with spatial elements (large or small,
  depending on the choices that are made).

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The Growth Development Strategy for the Gauteng
Province

• In May 2004, Gauteng EXCO decided to develop the
  GDS
• It has its foundation in the Gauteng Trade
  Industry Strategy, the Gauteng Integrated
  Development Plan, the Gauteng Local Economic
  Development Strategy, and the Gauteng State of
  the Environment Report, etc
• The GDS is a plan not just the Provincial
  Government, but for the Gauteng Province as a
  whole
• Seeks to
• Coherent visionary 8 year growth development
  perspective
• A framework to guide government actions
• A statement of purpose as a basis for partnership.

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The Growth Development Strategy for the Gauteng
Province

• Gauteng in context
• The economic industrial heartland of the
  country
• Home to almost 20 South Africans on only 1.4 of
  the SA surface area
• Contributes around 34 of the country GDP and
  Africas 4th largest economy
• Accounted for 49 of all remuneration in the
  country and 52 of organizations turnover in
  2003
• Largest recipient of in-migration in the SADC
• One of the most unequal societies in the world
• Produces 80 of South Africas industrial waste
• Emerging as Africas first Global City Region.

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The Growth Development Strategy for the Gauteng
Province

• Recognize achievements over the past decade
• Acknowledge current socio-economic fault lines
• Present a framework for strategic intervention
• Demonstrate commitment through the use of
  credible strategic levers
• Commit to ongoing monitoring and review.

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The Growth Development Strategy for the Gauteng
Province

• The GDS outlines
• A shared vision for growth development in the
  Province for the next 10 years
• Strategic objectives that we are working towards
  achieving
• Strategic mechanisms, which are choices on how we
  can achieve our objectives
• Strategic levers, which are instruments that we
  can use to turn things around
• Gautengs contribution to the achievement of the
  National goals of halving unemployment poverty
  by 2014.

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The Growth Development Strategy for the Gauteng
Province

• Sustainability issues
• Ensuring faster, sustainable and shared growth
• Addressing poverty in the short to long term
  providing appropriate levels of services to all
  Gautengers
• Densification, urban renewal better located
  human settlements
• Ensuring good governance and partnership
• Focus on the most vulnerable sectors of society
• Upholding environmental governance.

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Challenges

• Not adequate emphasis on environmental management
  principles
• Dichotomy between growth and environmental
  management not completely resolved
• Lack of appropriate tools
• Better integration of environmental and
  development management governance systems

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Possible Solutions

• Promotion of pro-active environmental planning
  instruments
• Better co-ordination between economic/
  development planning environmental management
  authorities
• Information sharing, eg monitoring systems
  tools.

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Thank you