DEPARTMENT OF

COOPERATIVE GOVERNANCE
Draft Integrated Urban Development
Framework(IUDF)

Progress Report on the IUDF consultation process

iudf@cogta.gov.za
Twitter: @IUDF_COGTA

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 Presentation Outline
1. Overall IUDF Process
2. Summary of the IUDF
3. Progress since Cabinet approval
❑ Provincial Consultations
❑ Sector based consultations
❑ Independent Reviews
❑ Other sessions
4. Emerging content issues from consultations
5. Current IUDF Priorities
6. Envisaged support from the key departments in the
IUDF Team

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1. Overall IUDF Process
Work for the IUDF started
in 2012.

Currently consulting on the

draft for submission to
Cabinet in 2015.

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 2. IUDF Goals
• Spatial Transformation: Reverse
inefficient and exclusionary
practices.

• Inclusion Imperative: Improve

access and inclusion of the
marginalised.

• Economic Imperative: Improving

the productive capacity in cities
and addressing income poverty.

• Institutional Imperative:
Establish proper governance
Towards liveable, inclusive and
systems and strengthen
resilient towns and cities intergovernmental collaboration.

REQUIRES STRONGER INTERGOVERNMENTAL COLLABORATION TO PLAN AND DELIVER AS WELL AS PARTNERSHIPS WITH
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 Core elements of the IUDF
VISION STRATEGIC GOALS LEVERS
Integrated Spatial Planning

Access Integrated transport and

mobility

Integrated and sustainable

human settlements
Growth
Integrated urban
infrastructure

Governance
Efficient land governance
and management

Spatial Inclusive economic

development
transformation
Empowered active
communities

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 IUDF POLICY LEVERS

The levers are premised on an understanding that (1)

integrated spatial planning forms the basis for achieving
integrated urban development, which follows a specific
sequence of urban policy actions: (2) integrated transport
that informs targeted investments into (3) integrated
human settlements, underpinned by (4) integrated
infrastructure network systems and (5) efficient land
governance, which all together can trigger (6) economic
diversification and inclusion, and (7) empowered
communities, which in turn will demand (8) deep
governance reform to enable and sustain all of the above.

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 Cross Cutting Issues

  

How can we better mainstream these issues in all the levers?

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3. Progress since Cabinet approval
• IUDF consultation started in October 2014. IUDF website page

• Consultation initially earmarked to be

completed by March 2015, but has been
extended due to number of sessions to be
undertaken and demands by stakeholders .

• Consultation will be completed by June 2015.

• As part of continued communication and
engagement we have the IUDF Website and
Twitter account which are now operational

Website for IUDF is a follows :

http://www.iudf.net/

Twitter handle : @IUDF_COGTA

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Consultation Process

The consultations programme structured as follows:

❑Provincial Consultations : Facilitated in partnership with Provincial
CoGTA’s and Provincial Planning Forums.

❑Sector based consultations: held in partnerships with non-

governmental partners, which host, identify stakeholders and facilitate
the sessions.

❑National Departments and State Entities

❑Independent Reviews: supported by the EU Dialogue Facility and

GIZ

❑Adhoc sessions as per requests and invitations

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3.1 Provincial Sessions

PROVINCE PROPOSED DATES STATUS

WESTERN CAPE 17 November 2014 Completed

EASTERN CAPE 18 November 2014 Completed
NORTHERN CAPE 26 November 2014 Completed
MPUMALANGA 23 April 2015 confirmed
NORTH WEST April/May 2015 pending
LIMPOPO April/May 2015 pending
KWA-ZULU NATAL November 2014 Completed
GAUTENG 27 November 2014 Completed
April/May 2015 pending
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3.2 Sector based consultations
Partner DATES Lever/ Focus Area STATUS
9 Feb Integrated Spatial Planning Completed
(Lever 1) and Efficient Land
CSIR Governance (Lever 5).
19 Feb Empowered Active Completed
Isandla Institute Communities (Lever 7)
3 Mar Urban Safetyas a cross-cutting Completed
GIZ VCP Programme issue.
GIZ Governance Support 26 Mar Inclusion of Vulnerable groups Completed
Programme
10 Mar Climate Change and Disaster Completed
Risk Reduction as a cross-cutting
SALGA issue.
11 Mar Effective Urban Governance Completed
HSRC (Lever 8)
15 Mar Integrated and Sustainable Completed
Human Settlements (Lever 3)
WITS

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3.2 Outstanding sector based consultations

Partner Focus area DATES

April/May

PRASA Integrated transport and mobility

April/May
National Business Initiative Inclusive Economic Growth
April/May
University of Pretoria Rural-Urban linkages

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3.3 Other Sessions
The Draft document has also been presented or discussed at the following IGR
structures and meetings as per the invitation:
– Premiers Coordinating Forums in Northern Cape and Gauteng,
– The City Budget Forum,
– CoGTA Portfolio Committee,
– South African Planners Conference
– International Dialogue on Citizen Safety
– National Urban Conference.
– SALGA National Members Assembly
– PRASA SIP 7 workshop
– Western Cape Planning Conference
– There are also continuous requests from various stakeholders for presentation that
the department adheres to.

The outputs/ feedback of all these consultations are documented by GIBB

(external consultant appointed with financial support from GIZ). Upon finalisation of
the consultation period – workshop reports will be made available

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3.3 Independent Reviews
• Two independent peer reviews have been undertaken on the Draft IUDF:

3.3.1 A team of independent EU based consultants has been appointed to peer

review the draft IUDF. This is part of the ongoing partnership to establish a
dialogue with EU on integrated urban development.

• The purpose for the review is to;

– to assess coherence of proposed levers and priorities,
– align with international norms and principles,
– the mainstreaming and inclusion of vulnerable groups as well as to
– provide recommendations on how the draft can be further improved.

3.3.2 GIZ Governance Support Group is also funding a review to assess

mainstreaming of issues affecting vulnerable groups.

3.3.3 Final reports on the two reviews are due by end April 2015.

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3.4 National Departments and SOEs

• National departments participate in the sector based consultations.

• Follow up sessions with National Departments and State Entities

will be held upon consolidation of the comments in order to obtain
consensus on the priority areas and the implementation plan.

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4. Emerging content issues from consultation
sessions
• There is general acceptance of the framework and the proposals by most
stakeholders.

• There is lot of expectations of what the IUDF can achieve including;

– Giving direction towards a coherent urban development policy on how
planning should be responding to challenges of urbanisation
– Giving direction on how the country can benefit from urbanisation and in
reaping the urban dividend
– Creating shared consensus in addressing spatial divides and socio-economic
inequalities in our cities and towns;
– Promoting intergovernmental collaboration to plan and to deliver;
– Ensuring integration between plans, fiscal and regulatory instruments

• Clarity on the intended outcome of the doc- will it remain a framework or

will it be policy?

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4. Emerging issues from consultation sessions

• There is a need to urgently finalise the National Spatial Development

Framework in order to guide and ensure alignment of sectoral spatial
plans and inform spatial targeting.

• Spatial transformation is a key objective that must guide all initiatives in

a way that leads to improved access to basic service, resource efficiency
and inclusive economic growth. This would require coordinated planning
and integrated delivery particularly within government (at all levels) in
order to direct private investments.

• The need to ensure that the IUDF is enforceable failing which the status
quo will remain and the objectives will not be met

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4. Emerging issues from consultation sessions

• Clarifying the role of the private sector and civil society particularly
considering the impact of private investment on the built environment.

• The need to assess how the financing regime affect the ability of cities
to restructure their spaces and operate more effectively

• The need to indicate more clearly how the levers are linked to each
other and implications for prioritisation of initiatives.

Consolidated inputs and comments will be made available at the end

of the consultation process

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5. Current IUDF Priorities
Some of the prioritised activities for the IUDF going forward include:
– Reviewing the final IUDF report in line with the comments/inputs from the
consultation sessions . High level timelines are :
 IUDF Review: July-August 2015
 Consultations with national partners and local government: Sept 2015
 Editing and finalisation of the document: October 2015
 Commence with the Cabinet approval processes: November 2015
– The IUDF Implementation Framework (entirely new section of the document)
– Identification of pilot projects to implement/test the proposals in the IUDF. The
targeted areas are some of the fast growing towns, selected
intermediate(secondary cities) and implementation of the integration zones as
identified by metros as per their Built Environment Performance Plans.

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6. Envisaged roles from departments in the IUDF
Team
• Use available platforms to consult on the IUDF.
These would include MINMECs, Sector Forums,
etc. DCoG team available to support the process

• Identification of priorities for the implementation

plan

• Circulate the Draft IUDF within networks.

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