Provincial Planning Framework

PROVINCIAL STRATEGIC PLAN (2019 – 2024)

The Provincial Strategic Plan (PSP) sets out the Western Cape Government’s (WCG) vision and strategic priorities. The PSP 2019-2024 builds on the firm foundations that were put in place during the last two terms of office and entails the following:

Vision-inspired Priority

1 Safe and cohesive communities

The Western Cape is a place where residents and visitors feel safe

Focus Areas

• Enhanced capacity and effectiveness of policing and law enforcement

• Strengthened youth-at-risk referral pathways and child- and family-centred initiatives to reduce violence

• Increased social cohesion and safety of public spaces

Interventions

• Enhance enforcement capacity in targeted priority precincts

• Improve evidence-based, professional policing through community safety oversight initiatives

• Strengthen crime prevention partnerships with non- government role players

• The First 1000 Days initiative

• The Eye-on-the-Child (and Youth) safety priority

• The Child Care and Child Protection programme

• Expansion of the Child and Youth Care Centres

• The school-based violence prevention programme

• Address upstream factors such as alcohol and drug use

• Identify opportunities for crime prevention through planning, design, and management

• Give attention to strategic government-managed areas

• The WCG will manage its own safety and security risks

• Re-orientate schools as a community resource and after school programmes to youth-at-risk

• Improve neighbourhood cleanliness

Vision-inspired Priority

Focus Areas

Interventions

• The WCG will support municipalities with the installation of street and high-mast aerial lighting and surveillance cameras

Vision-inspired Priority

2 Growth and Jobs

An enabling, competitive economy which creates jobs and is demand-led and private sector driven

Focus Areas

• Increasing investment

• Building and maintaining infrastructure

• Growing the economy through export growth

• Creating opportunities for job creation through skills development

• Creating an enabling environment for economic growth through resource resilience

Interventions

• Remove obstacles to investment

• Investment promotion and business retention

• Attract investment in catalytic infrastructure

• Secure energy supply within the Province

• Support municipalities to reduce infrastructure underspending and carry out medium to long term infrastructure planning

• Implement innovative models to spend infrastructure funds effectively and efficiently and better utilise government assets

• Place particular focus on the maintenance and protection of core provincial infrastructure and investment in resource resilient infrastructure

• The WCG will release assets that are non-strategic or core assets that can be better utilised by the private sector

• The WCG will support municipalities with the identification and project preparation of catalytic economic infrastructure

• Tradable sector development

• Export promotion

• African trade markets

• Improved market access

• Provincial Freight Strategy

• Support youth skills development initiatives

• Prioritise skills development in the rural landscape

• The WCG will implement a graduate intern programme and industry intern programme

• Assist local emerging contractors through an Emerging Contractor Development Programme and Labour Intensive programme

• Climate change resilience

• Energy security

• Water security

• Waste management and the waste economy

Vision-inspired Priority

3 Empowering People

Residents of the Western Cape have opportunities to shape their lives and the lives of others, to ensure a meaningful and dignified life

Focus Areas

• Children and families

• Education and learning

• Youth and skills

• Health and wellness

Interventions

• Implementing the First 1000 Days Initiative

• Increase access to quality early childhood development initiatives

• Ensure that evidence-based care and services are provided to vulnerable families

• Equip learners with the appropriate skills required for the 21st-century world of work

• Implement the Foundation Phase Reading Strategy

• Improve the quality of school accountability, functionality and support

• Implement the Youth in Service programme and ensure youth programme quality across the WC

• Effectively identify youth at risk and place them in targeted programmes

• Expand and entrench After School Programmes

• Improve wellness through prevention and healthy lifestyles programmes

• Improve health systems and infrastructure reform

Vision-inspired Priority

4 Mobility and Spatial Transformation

Residents live in well-connected, vibrant, and sustainable communities and move around efficiently on safe, affordable, low carbon public transport

Focus Areas

• Better linkages between places through safe, efficient and affordable public transport

• Inclusive places of opportunity

• More opportunities for people to live in better locations

• Innovation for impact

• Integrated service delivery

• Governance transformation

Interventions

• Improve the rail service, especially to get the Central Rail Line working effectively

• Expanded deployment of Railway Enforcement Officers

• Increase the proportion of minibus taxis operating in accordance with basic standards and reduce the number of illegal minibus taxis on the road

• Increase the proportion of road freight moving to rail to ease congestion and reduce the cost of maintaining the road network

• Strengthen Traffic Law Enforcement through funding of additional officers

• Improve local transport systems in partnership with non- metro municipalities, with a focus on public transport and non-motorised transport in poor and marginalised communities

• Transit-oriented developments that are mixed-use and promote densification

• Support municipalities to produce built-environment and infrastructure projects defined in their Spatial Development Frameworks and Capital Expenditure Frameworks

• Ensure infrastructure resilience in the face of significant climate change impacts

• The WCG will target 14 priority housing development areas for high density, mixed-use, mixed-income and mixed- tenure developments

• The WCG will use state-owned land and buildings as catalysts for integration and spatial transformation

• Build internal capacity for innovation in the WCG by establishing cross-departmental and external exchange programmes - Western Cape Exchange

• Build an "innovation for impact" initiative to drive service delivery through innovative tools

• Develop an innovative financing and procurement framework to assist with reducing barriers to deliver on the PSP outcomes

• Implemented Integrated Work Plan and annual Integrated Implementation Plan through the JDA

• Citizen Empowerment

• Strengthening and maintaining governance and accountability

Vision-inspired Priority

Focus Areas

• Improving the places where people live

Interventions

• The WCG will develop an inclusionary housing policy framework and provide policy assistance to municipalities

• The WCG will support the identification of restructuring zones and intergovernmental investment pipelines for land release in municipal SDFs

• The WCG will continue to roll out the Regional Socio-economic Programme (RSEP)

• The WCG will continue supporting the 16 Rural Development Nodes

• Improve and protect the quality of environmental systems to protect people from climate change risks

Vision-inspired Priority

5 Innovation and Culture

Government services are delivered to the people of the Western Cape in an accessible, innovative, and citizen-centric way

Focus Areas

• Citizen-centric culture

Interventions

• Create capacitated leaders to sustain the desired culture through leadership maturity development using a value- based leadership development programme

• Enable sustained vision clarity and passion for the purpose of the WCG through leader-led and vision-inspired engagement processes

• Align the mindsets, competencies of WCG employees and WCG work practices to enable collaboration, ongoing learning, and adaptation at inter-departmental and intergovernmental levels

• Develop and implement an employee value proposition to affirm the WCG as an employer of choice

• Develop an integrated employee engagement, organisational culture, and citizen satisfaction index to facilitate alignment between the WCG service commitment and the citizen/user experience

ONE CAPE 2040

The One Cape 2040 is the Western Cape’s agenda for joint action on economic development. Like the National Development Plan (NDP), it should be viewed as a vision and strategy for society, rather than a plan of government, even though all three spheres of government are essential for implementation. One Cape 2040 is designed to complement national planning while homing in on the regional uniqueness of the Western Cape. It aligns many of the conclusions of the National Development Plan but has a narrower regional focus.

The One Cape 2040 challenge is;

“Creating a resilient, inclusive and competitive Western Cape with higher rates of employment, producing growing incomes, greater equality and an improved quality of life”.

The One Cape 2040 vision is;

“A highly skilled, innovation-driven, resource-efficient, connected, high opportunity and collaborative society”.

One Cape 2040 identifies six transition areas with goals and primary change levers.

Transition

Knowledge transition (Educating Cape)

Goals

• Every person will have access to a good education that will ensure he or she is appropriately skilled for opportunity.

• The Western Cape will enjoy a global reputation as a location of ecological, creative, scientific and social innovation excellence.

Primary Change Lever

• Working with parents and teachers to improve the learning and development environment of children.

• Structured innovation networks linking researchers with investors and entrepreneurs.

Transition

Economic access transition (Enterprising Cape)

Goals

• Any person who wants to be economically active can secure work.

• The Western Cape is recognised internationally as an entrepreneurial destination of choice.

Primary Change Lever

• Intensive subsidised work experience creation supplemented by job intermediation services.

• Focus on social enterprise as a vehicle for economic growth and jobs.

Transition

Ecological transition (Green Cape)

Goals

• All people have access to water, energy and waste services that are delivered on a sustainable resource-efficient manner.

• The Western Cape is a recognised leader and innovator in the green economy.

Primary Change Lever

• Energy and water infrastructure and regulation geared to sustainable resource use.

• Focus on social enterprise as a vehicle for economic growth and jobs.

Transition

Cultural transition (Connecting Cape)

Goals

• The communities that make up the Western Cape are confident, welcoming, inclusive and integrated.

• The Western Cape is regarded as a global meeting point between East and West and an important connector with the new markets of Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Primary Change Lever

• Programmes to build inter-community partnerships and cohesion.

• Expanded cultural and trade ties with targeted regions in Africa, Latin America and Asia.

Transition

Settlement transition (Living Cape)

Goals

• The neighbourhoods and towns of the region are provided good quality of life to all and are accessible, have good public services and are rich in opportunity.

• The Western Cape is ranked as one of greatest places to live in the world.

Primary Change Lever

• Shift from provision of subsidised housing to better household and community services including major improvement in public transport and pedestrian access.

• Fast, cheap and reliable broadband and a safe living environment.

Transition

Institutional transition (Leading Cape)

Goals

• Ambitious socially responsible leadership exists at all levels in our society.

• The Western Cape is home to many world- class institutions in both the public and

  private spheres.

Primary Change Lever

• Multi-level collaborations for innovation (EDP eco-system).

• Leadership development to cultivate ambition and responsibility at all levels.

PROVINCIAL SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK (PSDF)

The purpose of the PSDF is inter alia to guide municipal integrated development plans (IDPs) and spatial development frameworks (SDFs). The PSDF aligns to the core spatial goals of ONE CAPE. The PDSF identified 3 main areas of intervention which are subdivided into 9 objectives, each with its own action plans and policies. The following table provides an overview of the intervention areas and objectives of the PSDF.

Intervention Areas

Socio economic development

Objectives

1. Align the future settlement pattern of the Province with areas of economic potential and the location of environmental resources.

2. Deliver human development programmes and basic needs programmes wherever they are required.

3. Strategically invest scarce public resources where they will generate the highest socio-economic returns.

4. Support land reform.

5. Conserve and strengthen the sense of place of important natural, cultural and productive landscapes, artefacts and buildings.

Intervention Areas

Urban restructuring

Objectives

1. End the apartheid structure of urban settlements.

2. Conveniently locate urban activities and promote public and non-motorized transport.

Intervention Areas

Environmental sustainability

Objectives

1. Protect biodiversity and agricultural resources.

2. Minimize the consumption of scarce environmental resources particularly water, fuel, building materials, mineral resources, electricity and land.