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North West Province

Support to the Environment and Sustainable

Development

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Background

• NWPG initiated and negotiated the Project with DEAT and the Embassy of Finland.

• The Project Agreement between the Governments of South Africa and Finland was signed on 11 December 2001

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Purpose

The purpose is to correctly address environmental issues in development planning and implementation, to simplify and speed up development processes and to strengthen the capacity of the involved organisations

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Beneficiaries

• The primary beneficiaries are the people of the North West Province

• The secondary beneficiaries will be the officials dealing with land use planning and environmental management from DACE, DDLG&H as well as all the municipalities.

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Principal Outputs• Provincial Integrated Environmental

Management System. • Provincial Spatial Development Plan and

Zoning Plan.• Capacity Building for IEMS and PSDF in

provincial departments and municipalities• North West Eco Fund supporting environ-

mental projects initiated by municipalities, NGO’s and CBO’s

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Secondary Outputs

• Public Consultative Process

• Biodiversity Site Inventory and Database Development

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Additional OutputsThere are pilot projects in order to test and pioneer various Environmental Management

instruments and methodologies:–Completed: Assessment of IT and GIS capacity of NW Municipalities–Ongoing:

• SEA for ( part of) Rustenburg Municipality

• IEM programmes for municipalities in the Kgalagadi District Municipality

• Integrated Waste Management Plan for Bojanala Platinum District Municipality

• Environmental Rights Awareness Raising.

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Integrated Environmental Management System

The Service Provider is Centre for Environmental Management of Potchefstroom University.

•Works started 31/11/2002

•Inception report, February 2003

•Status Quo report, June 2003

•Draft IEMS proposal, August 2003

•Final IEMS report November 2003

•The approved IEMS will be part of the

Provincial Legislation

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Provincial Spatial Development Framework and Zoning Plan

Service Provider is Maxim Planning Solutions Ltd .

– Project started 15 September 2002– Inception Report 15 November 2002– Status Quo report May 2003– Final SEA July 2003– Final PSDF Proposal October 2003– Approved PSDF part of the Provincial

Legislation

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Capacity Building• Skills Requirements workshops with DACE,

DDLG&H and municipalities in cooperation with SALGA-NW

• Contract for the completion of skills profiles and draft capacity building plan was signed with Diporojeke(Pty) Ltd

• Capacity Building Plan completed May 2003

• Capacity Building Programme to start in January 2004 after procurement of main service provider. (MULTA ?)

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North West Eco-Fund• Eco Fund Operational Policy was

approved in September 2002• District fund co-ordinators was

nominated in all four district Municipalities.

• Project planning course was attended by 20 applicants and district co-ordinators

• Applications are being received and 5 projects have been approved

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Biodiversity Study• Strategic Environmental Focus was selected

after a tendering procedure and work started 1 September 2002.

• Inception report was submitted 15 October 2002

• Final report was submitted in May 2003

• Database on existing species etc information

• Recommendations for protection

• Database development also applicable to

• other provincial information services needs

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Consultative Processes

Service Provider for PCP facilitation is Diporojeke(Pty) Ltd. The Consultative Process Plan was approved in consultation with consultants for the IEMS and the PSDF

– Grand Launch in February 2003

– 13 consultation meetings with stakeholder groups

– 3 newsletters

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Project Management• The responsibility of the project lies with the North

West Provincial Government

• The Project Management Team is situated in the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Environment

• The Finnish Environment Institute was selected to render the support service

• Website www.nwpg.org.za/sde/

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Cost and Timing• The total budget is some 3,700 000 Euro with 67 %

from Finland and 33 % from SA

• The project will be completed in 2005

– 2002 -> project mobilisation; start up of basic national studies and proposal

– 2003 -> completion of studies and proposals

– 2004 – 2005 -> implementation of proposals, capacity building

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IEMS, Actual Situation

• South Africa has modern environmental legislation – however some legislation is still old order

• Implementation and enforcement are fragmented

• There are numerous Laws, Permits, Certificates, Authorisations and Institutions involved

• Land use and environmental permitting processes completely separated

• Confusing, costly and time consuming and

hampers investment and job creation

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Sustainable Development?

• Prosperity for NW through Sustainable Development

• Sustainable development you get by INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

• Integrated Environmental Management is: Integration of Land Use Management with Environmental Management (permits, licensing etc & monitoring)

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The IEMS task

Formulate a provincial IEMS proposal, that is:• Make proposals for provincial regulations,

procedures and institutions to clarify permitting and monitoring

• Propose an efficient system relating to all official environment and land use related permits etc.

• Propose a legislative framework and

efficient mechanisms for environmental

and land use permits

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IEMS Preliminary Findings• Insufficient Knowledge of laws and procedures

• Protection of mandates, internally conflicting mandates

• Co-operative government not functioning

• Consultant driven, incapacitated consultants

• Insufficient information to developers

• Separate processes for different media (water, air, soil, waste)

• Lack of resources and sometimes will

to enforce regulations

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IEMS, Possible Solutions

• One-stop shop for decision-making probably not feasible (constitution)

• Interdepartmental work groups and forums

• MOUs

• Informal Co-operation agreements

• Information Technology, use of Intranet/Internet

• Capacity Building/Institutional Restructuring

• One stop shop for information

• Clarification of roles and mandates

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SDF vs. Zoning Plan• The SDF is policy document for distribution of

activities in space guiding land use of departments and municipalities

• The ZONING PLAN is a regulatory document for land development and property use including regulatory conditions

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Assessment of IDP SDFs

• Formats of SDFs differ both in content and presentation

• Most SDFs do not fully comply with directive/DFA principles

• Rural areas not sufficiently addressed

• No incorporation of Environmental Impacts

• Lack of integration and alignment with naighbouring municipalities and provinces

• Lack of integration of transportation and

land use planning

• Basic SDF guidelines needed

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LUM, General Problems

• Lack of law enforcement capacity in Local Government

• Overlapping processes and procedures/ expensive and lengthy processing of applications

• Long approval times have a negative economic impact on municipalities and developers

• Land reform processes are not yet integrated into the planning in the municipal sphere