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POOR MUNICIPALITIESPOOR MUNICIPALITIESFree State ProvinceFree State Province

Infrastructure and Economic DevelopmentInfrastructure and Economic Development

Presentation on 24 Priority District Municipalities25 March 2014

Cabinet Unveils 12 Implementation plans (For Immediate Action)

Action Plan 6

24 DMs identified

Current Process

Wayforward

DEPT OBJECTIVES

Focus RTR on Resource Poor Rural Municipalities

Mobilise available economic development support through RTR

Foster Collaboration with Private Sector

Institutionalisation of RTR at Local Government Level

BACKGROUND Cabinet Unveiled 12 Implementation Plans for Immediate Action Action Plan 6 (Scaling up Rural Development Programmes

DRDLR and Presidency for Overseeing the Programme

24 Resource Poor DMs (18 million people)

High levels of Poverty; Service Constraints; high levels of Unemployment; Low levels of Economic Development

CURRENT PROCESSES

Provincial Workshops in all 9 provinces

Cogta has Adopted the Guidelines

Cogta and SALGA will monitor the Implementation

WAYFORWARD

Guidelines Implementation Championed by HOD RTR Guidelines workshopped at LG level

Institutionalisation of the RTR

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