Download Towards a Sustainable Development

Towards a Sustainable Development
Implementation Plan for the Western Cape
by Mark Gordon – DEA&DP
Outline of Presentation
Conceptual Framework
International Architecture
Evolution of SD Discourse
International & National
Context
WCape Strategic Context
Key Elements of SDIP
Way Forward
WSSD 2002
Prosperity
Economic
aspirations:
Economic growth
People
Social equity qnd
Social well-being
Planet
Ecological
Integrity
Healthy
Environment
STRATEGIC CONTEXT
FUNCTIONAL SUPPORT
International
Obligations
National
Strategic Obj’s
Agenda 21
WSSD
(JPoI, GD)
Social
Int. Conventions
& Protocols
Economic
Environmental
W.Cape’s
Strategic Obj’s
iKapa Elihlumayo
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES
– SOUTH AFRICA
• RDP - Reconstruction and
Development Programme
• GEAR
• ISRDS – Integrated
Sustainable Rural
Development Strategy
• Medium Term
Environmental Sector
Implementation
programme (10 year)
• URP – Urban Renewal
Programme
• IGFR
• Ikapa Ehlimayo
Constitutional Imperatives
• Social Issues – access to productive natural resources,
equitable and sustainable participation in
development opportunities towards poverty
alleviation
• Economic Issues – address unsustainable productive
and consumption pattern – compete globally, hi-tech
innovative products
• Ecological Issues – improving and/or maintaining
environmental resource integrity and productivity
Key Challenges and Constraints
• Current approaches fail to address socioeconomic and environmental problems
• Govt commitment to SD not mainstreamed
into policy and action-oriented programmes
• Lack of effective mechanisms to translate
policy provisions into action in the public and
private sector
• Lack of integration across depts and sectors
• Need for transversal co-ordination structures
• SD not an “add-on” but integral to core
functions of departments
“Dual Economy”
• Unsustainable patterns of production and
consumption in a developed economy
• Inequitable access to resources and
ownership and unsustainable social
development patterns (human settlement,
poverty etc) – developing economy
Economic Challenges
• Neo-classical Approach :
view the environment as a source of natural
resources for economic production
• Alternative Approach:
Provision of wider range of functions and services
– sink for wastes, aesthetic, educational,
ecological and climatic cycles and functions,
habitats – FREE GOODS
Why is the deterioration of the environment
not seen as a serious economic problem ?
• the basic functioning of a market system is that
property rights have to be well defined, secure,
exclusive and transferable.
• Market system involves the exchanging of goods
and services.
• Market failure – assigning ownership to public goods
-environment : under-valued, challenge to
realistically quantify
Ikapa Ehlihumayo
• “The Growing Cape” – A Home for All
• Vision for the future development of WCape
• 8 lead strategies which primarily focus on
building social & human capital, economic
growth and a seamless governance system
for improved service delivery.
• Urgent need to embed SD principles into the
lead strategies
• Challenge to finalise 5 lead strategies which
form the hallmark of this vision
STRATEGIC CONTEXT – Key Elements
Transport
SIP
Economic
Development
MEDS
Sustainable
Development
Spatial
Development
PSDF
Key Growth
Drivers for the
Province
Social
Sustainable
Development
HRDS
Capital
Investment
Policy Framework
PGDS
PGDFA
SDIP
NSDP + MTSF
IKAPA Lead Strategies
Provincial EIP
District/ Municipal SDF
Policies
Frameworks
Municipal SDP’s, IDP’s
Conference Outputs
Declaration of Intent :
A commitment towards the formulation of the Western Cape
Sustainable Development Implementation Plan (SDIP)
SDIP: Over-arching strategic plan for the province to feed into
PGDS integrating departmental lead strategies ie. Ikapa
Strategies
Post conference roll-out strategy:-to finalise SDIP
-Engagement with key stakeholders
- to develop Institutional Arrangements to:
- support SDIP
Key Elements of the Multi-stakeholder Process
Concept Paper
Situational Analysis
Declaration of intent
May 2005
May – Sep 2005
Sustainable
Development
Conference
Draft Sustainable Development
Implementation Plan (SDIP)
June 2006
(PGDS) Stakeholder Process
Dec 2006
June
2005
EXPEDIENCY AND UNIQUE POSITION
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Western Cape is uniquely positioned
Need for integrated approach
Need for cohesively aligned strategy ito JPoI, MDGs
Need to evaluate the strategic position of the province to
translate and incorporate the international SD targets
(JPoI and MDGs) into implementable and tangible
provincial implementation targets
SDIP – provides a fundamental framework to chart a
sustainable development course of action for the WCape
D:EADP ~ SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE JUNE 2005
SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS
• Issues of energy security , generation
options, DSM – climate change
• Cape Town water shortage
• Cape Town WWTWs under standard
• No. of cars 2 x in 25 years in Cape
Town – sustainable transport
• Many tip sites nearly full
• Housing backlog only 38% funded and
slow delivery
SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS
• High levels of migration to continue
• Settlement building approach still similar
to pre-1994
• Veld carrying capacity decreasing
• Long lead times and lack of coordination on decision making
• Link between crime and development
• Low levels of education and skills
SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS
• W Cape economy diversified and growing
as a whole (uneven in places) : 4% 2005
• Lowest unemployment rates in SA – 26%
• Potential growth sectors – agriculture,
tourism, financial services
• Major bio-diversity and scenic resources
• Good roads and ports (rail underutilised)
• Highly urbanised province – 90%
• 14,3 % to GDP – 3rd highest
Rethinking Policy for Sustainability
• Smart Policy for Sustainable Development
• Certainty - shared vision reflected in long term goals
• Greater internalising of costs through incentives / charges
• Market-based instruments - ecological tax reform
• Demanding results-based stds with realistic phase-in
• Regulate close to end-user, encouraging up-stream
solutions
• Process based on transparency and trust
• Innovative re-design options
Policy Framework
PGDS
PGDA
SDIP
NSDP +
IKAPA Lead Strategies
Provincial EIP
District/ Municipal SDF
Policies
Frameworks
Municipal SDP’s, IDP’s
Key Elements of Process
Concept Paper
Situational Analysis
Declaration of intent
Draft Sustainable Development
Implementation Plan (SDIP)
Provincial Growth and
Strategy Development (PGDS)
May 2005
May – August 2005
Sustainable
Development
Conference
Dec 2005
March 2006
June
2005
Thank You
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