Msunduzi Municipality

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Msunduzi Municipality

• Presentation at the SACN General Urban Renewal
  Workshop 1 October 2003

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Challenges

• Urban poverty
• Crime and grime
• Homelessness
• Unemployment
• Economic redistribution
• Lack of appropriate institutional arrangements
• Poor skills and investment in people
• Access to land
• Land tenure?
• Lack of enforcement of by-laws/ legislation
• Corruption
• Bureaucracy

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Approach

• Integration strategy- bigger picture, but acting
  locally
• Spatial linkages
• Local/ targeted interventions areas, nodes,
  corridors e.g. CBD CID initiatives
• Area based planning e.g. 18 functional areas
  within Edendale, which has a huge population of
  200,000
• Institutional capacity building ward committees
  and specific forums such as district
  municipalities provincial departments- but
  these have junior representation

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Approach

• Institutional capacity building ward committees
  and specific forums such as district
  municipalities provincial departments- but
  these have junior representation
• Skills enhancement programme for sustainable
  development
• Targeted funding, resources and partnerships
• Poverty alleviation strategy
• Shosholoza projects demand driven local projects
  as a platform for social solutions
• HIV/Aids strategy

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Approach

• Organisational transformation re-engineering the
  whole organisation
• IDP budget linkages Capex/ Opex linkages,
  external resources linkages