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PROVINCIAL WORKSHOPS: A LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR PROVINCIAL SPATIAL PLANNING AND LAND USE MANAGEMENT

• Gauteng and North West Presentation
  • SACN Gauteng Law Presentation - 19 July 2011
  • Provincial Framework
• Western Cape Workshop
  • SACN Western Cape Presentation - 19 July 2011
  • Provincial Framework
• Eastern Cape Workshop
  • SACN Eastern Cape Presentation - 21 July 2011
  • Provincial Framework
• Free State & Northern Cape Workshop
  • SACN Northern Cape Workshop - 26 July 2011
  • Provincial Framework
• SACN Mpumalanga and Limpopo Presentation
  • SACN Mpumalanga and Limpopo Presentation - 26 July 2011
  • Provincial Framework
• Kwa-Zulu Natal Workshop: A legislative
  • SACN KZN Presentation - 28 July 2011
  • Provincial Framework

Spatial planning and Land Use Management reference Group Meeting, 1 June

• Spatial planning and Land Use Management reference Group Meeting presentation 1 June

SACN Workshop In Financing City Services In Southern Africa (25 May 2011)

• Arusha Municipality: Financing City Infrastructure
• Johannesburg - Lilongwe Mentorship Programme
• Dar Es Salam City Council: Powers, Functions And Intergovernmental Relations
• Gaborone City Council: A Brief Background to GCC In Terms of Financial Management In Project Implementation
• Kitwe City Council: Financing Of The City Government Services in Southern Africa
• City of Ndola: Managing City Revenues For The City Of Ndola, Zambia
• Municipal Council Of Port-Louis, Mauritius: Financing City Infrastructure
• SACN: The Financing Of City Services in Southern Africa
• SACN: Ekurhuleni Municipal Council Chambers
• SACN: " ..a joint knowledge sharing program of action of salga, national & provincial governments, and nine of South Africa’s most urbanizing spaces…”
• City Of Windhoek: Financing City Government Services In Southern Africa

Spatial planning and Land Use Management reference Group Meeting, 14 March

• Gemey presentation
• Melinda presentation

Our cities ourselves seminar
Papers presented at a seminar on Our Cities Ourselves: The Future of Transportation in Urban Life held in Johannesburg, 25 February 2011.

• New York to Joburg: Remaking cities using transport: Sithole Mbanga, CEO of SACN.
• New York’s sustainable streets: Janette Sadik Khan, commissioner of the New York City department of transportation.
• Transport Planning for Transformation in the City of Joburg: Lisa Seftel, executive director for transportation in the City of Johannesburg.
• Our Cities Ourselves: 10 Principles for Transport in Urban Life: Walter Hook, executive director at the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy.
• Shaping the City: A Strategic Blueprint for New York’s Future: Amanda Burden, chair of the New York City Planning Commission and director of the department of city planning.
• Looking Back, Looking Forward: Transport and Land Use Planning in the City of Johannesburg: Philip Harrison, South African research chair in Development Planning & Modelling, University of the Witwatersrand.

Expanded public works programme
20^thSACN Inclusive cities reference group meeting

• First quarter performance
• Incentive update for select committee on appropriations
• Second training phase
• Municipality
  • Summary report
  • Incentive calculations
  • Analysis
• Provincial
  • Summary report
  • Incentive calculations
  • Analysis
• Incentive parameters
• Contact details for D.Directors per Cluster
• North West schools

PHASE 1
Sustainable Municipal Finance for Infrastructure Study in the SADC Region
Lilongwe: An introduction to financial management and credit worthiness for municipalities.

• Introduction to financial management and creditworthiness for municipalities [600Kb]

Overview of the financial `State of the Cities 2010’
Presentation to IMFO CFO Forum.

Reference Group Climate Change, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
Local Government Leads the Way, Nelson Mandela Bay, 8 - 9 April 2010

• Johannesburg solar water heating programme [1.78Mb]
• Towards a Green Economy [1.45Mb]
• Technical Report on Focus Technology
  • Part 1 [4.66Mb]
  • Part 2 [4.90Mb]
• Rainwater Harvesting in eThekwini
  • Part 1 [6.34Mb]
  • Part 2 [6.73Mb]
  • Part 3 [7.19Mb]
  • Part 4 [1.99Mb]
• Wind Energy [3.42Mb]
• Energy Efficiency in Municipal building [437Kb]
• Photo voltaic panels [3.81Mb]
• Reforestation [1.55Mb]
• Gas to Electricity project [1.54Mb]
• Action plan and Renewable Energy Initiative [229Kb]
• Reference Group meeting Summary [1.51Mb]

Review of Quality of Life Survey
Download in PDF format - 22 June 2010

SA-Denmark Urban Environmental Management Programme

• Front Page
• Introduction
• Sustainable Planning
• Environmental Healt
• Air Quality
• Sustainable Energy
• Waste Management
• Capacity Building
• Credits

Productive Cities seminar on Green Employment: 8 October 2009

• Guy Preston: Sustainable Cities and Jobs [2MB]
• African Carbon Trust: The Role of Policy in Creating Green Jobs [386KB]
• Errol Douwes: Green Jobs [2.8MB]
• Mabule Mokhine: Creating Green Jobs from Waste Discard [653KB]

Expanded public works programme
19^thSACN Inclusive cities reference group meeting

• Community Based Planning: A Case Study of Mangaung
• Expanded Public Works Programme Current Status
• A Futuristic Perspective For Sustainable Infrastructure Asset Management
• Informal Settlements Pilot Projects in Cape Town

3rd SACN Urban Conference – The State of South African Cities

• The State of the Building Environment
  • Building the City: Mr Ian Palmer
  • Owning the City: Dr Mark Napier
  • Moving in the City: Mr Philip van Ryneveld
  • Working in the City: Dr Miriam Altman
• First Set of Breakaway Discussions
  • State of Municipal Finance: Mr Philip van Ryneveld
  • Municipal Revenue: Ms Yasmin Coovadia
  • Municipal Borrowing: Mr Conrad Barberton
  • Employment and Unemployment in the Cities: Ms Shirley Robinson
  • State of EPWP in the Cities: Mr Ismail Akhalway
  • State of Urban Food Security: Dr Bruce Frayne
  • Conditions of Food Security: Dr Battersby Lennard and Mr Kroll
  • Climate Change in the Cities
• Second Set of Breakaway Discussions
  • Freight Flows: Mr Bongisizwe Mpondo
  • Tourism and Economic Growth: Mr Nicholas Northcote
  • Energy in the Cities: Ms Megan Euston-Brown
  • Air Quality in the Cities: Mr Jongikhaya Witi
  • Indicators Project Briefing: Mr Nishendra Moodley
  • Inclusive City Measures: Ms Wendy Ovens
  • Productive City Measures: Ms Shirley Robinson
  • State of the Cities in Africa Project Reporting: Ms Ntombini Marrengane
• Closing Plenary
  • SACN 3rd Urban Conference Closing Plenary: Mr Sithole Mbanga

Inclusive cities seminar on pro-poor property rating policies

• Presentation 1: by Alison Hickey Tshangana
• Presentation 2: by Buffalo City Municipality

PHASE 1
Workshop on Sustainable municipal finance in Southern Africa
The project will do this by providing knowledge, technical assistance and credit advice to sub-national government entities in Southern Africa to a) build their capacity to better manage their financial affairs; b) facilitate the entry of the region’s creditworthy cities and sub-national entities into the regional municipal finance market and c) assist other subnational entities and local governments to achieve creditworthiness.

• Hunter van Ryneveld [812kB]
• Sithole Mbanga [322kB]
• Ian Palmer [129kB]
• David Savage [311kB]
• Brian Shepherd [157kB]
• Vusi Matsebula [1MB]
• Johan Kruger [839kB]
• Roger Gertze [554kB]

Presentations on the Township Transformation Timeline.

• Narrative
• Poster
• PPT Presentation
• Flash application

Introducing the township renewal challenge.

• Introducing the township renewal challenge [pdf, 2.92mb]
• Unlocking township markets [pdf, 471kb]
• Restructuring the township physical environment [pdf, 3mb]
• Packaging township development projects [pdf, 471kb]
• Improving urban management in townships [pdf, 870kb]

Waste to energy through biogas
Waste management and pollution are priority municipal urban environmental management challenges, 17 July 2009.

• The job creation potential in biogas generation
• The role of local government in implementing biogas projects
• Biogas generation case studies
• Introducing the energy from waste (biogas) toolkit & feasibility model
• Biogas in the renewable energy feed-in tariff (REFIT)
• Green fuels for public transport in South Africa in South Africa
• Attendance Register

African Urban Food Security Conference 2009

• Food security programmes in Belo Horizonte, Brasil [PDF, 1.2Mb]
• Food security measure [PDF, 134kb]
• Urban Food Security [PDF, 1.8Mb]
• Sources of Food and Related Insecurity [PDF, 1.27Mb]
• Relationship between health and Urban Food Security [PDF, 893kb]
• Urban Food Security in Southern Africa [PDF, 632kb]
• Levels of Food Insecurity amongst Poor Urban Household [PDF, 213kb]
• Sithole Mbanga: SA Cities Network [PDF, 963kb]

Disaster Risk Management, 17-18 November 2009

• DRM Introduction
• Photos of Disasters
• Hazard, Risk Mapping, and Contingency Planning
• Bhopal Case Study

CONFERENCE
Mapping challenges and opportunities in contemporary urban Africa: 6 – 7 March 2007

• Conference report [pdf, 574kb]
• Summary report [pdf, 97kb]

Seminar
Cities Network Seminar on Sustainable Public Transport.

• Public Transport
• Rapid rail project in Gauteng
• Implications of Global Oil Depletion
• To BRT or Not to BRT
• Prof Peter Wilkinson
• Designing Public Transport Infrastructure 
• Long term strategy and structure
• Louis De Waal
• Sustainability and Energy Issues and Implications
• SESSION 1: Transit-LED Precinct Planning
• SESSION 2: Transit LED Planning
• Progress Report on Public Transport Network 
• Rea Vaya Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Project 
• Summary & an Input
• Lloyd Wright
• Cape Town Urban Regeneration

Well-Governed Cities Reference Group Meeting
The well-governed cities programme of the SA Cities Network includes a focus on urban development partnerships in 2007/08.

• The Impact and Effectiveness of Incentives in South Africa
• David Schmidt

Urban Development Zone Tax Incentive
Report on the proceedings of the Well-governed Cities Seminar on the Urban Development Zone tax incentive at Durban International Convention Centre.

• Report [PDF, 122kb]
• Silimela Development Services presentation [PDF, 264kb]
• eThekwini presentation [PDF, 1.6Mb]
• City of Johannesburg’s comments: Lebo Ramoreboli [PDF, 117kb]
• Polokwane presentation [PDF, 1.7Mb]
• Buffalo City presentation [PDF, 445kb]
• Old Mutual presentation [PDF, 494kb]

URBAN Conference
2^nd SACN Urban Conference, 2 - 3 December 2008

• Opening Session – chair: Clr Zanele Hlatshwayo, executive mayor of Msunduzi Local Municipality and member of SACN board
• Overview of Initial Urban Spatial Trends – chair: Pascal Moloi, MD Resolve Group
• Reflections on Urban Spatial Trends Research and Implications on Managing Urbanisations in South Africa – chair: Andrew Boraine, CEO Cape Town Partnership
• Local Perspectives on Development Planning and Urban Management – chair: Lechesa Tsenoli, chair of Local Government Portfolio Committee, Parliament
• Civic dinner - Hosted by: eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality.
• Towards a Collective Visio for Managing the Urban Challenges of South Africa – chair: Sithole Mbanga, CEO SACN
• The Implications of National Tools to Position and Manage the Growth and Development of Towns, Cities and City Regions – plenary discussion and feedback from working groups

Renewable Energy City Summit
Summit on Renewable Energy to enable local government decision makers to consider and discuss the merits of a range of leading practices in promoting the shift to a renewable energy future, 13 - 14 May 2008

• Session 1
  • A Case for Local Action
  • Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Programme
  • Douglas Banks CV
  • The City of Cape Town’s Renewable Energy Strategies and Experience
• Session 2
  • Renewable Energy:International Experience
  • Wind Energy and Finance
  • Integrating Wind and Hybrid Generation for Energy Security
  • Becoming Green and Gold:Applying the CDM to Wind Energy
  • South Africa Wind Energy Programme (SAWEP) Full Size Project
    • Case Study: Wind Energy Deployment in Africa
    • Cape Point (windlab) [bmp, 2.5Mb]
    • Cape Point (windlab) [jpg version]
  • Case Sutdy: Solar Water Heating
  • Case Study: Integration of Solar Systems
  • Case Sutdy: Janisch and Annegarn Enerkey SWH
• Session 3
  • Water and Energy Efficiency in Municipalities Presentation
  • Bioenergy in South African Cities
  • Eastern Cape Integrated Cropping & Biofuel Development Programme
  • Integrated Waste Management using Biogas Technology Spier
  • Greg Austin Resumé
  • Mathews Ethanol Gel Fuel Cape Town
  • Van Niekerk Other technologies Introduction
  • Case Sutdy: Olivier Bethlehem Hydro
  • Anton-Louis Olivier Biography
  • Case Sutdy: Pedersen Wave Power for the Western Cape
  • Kenneth Pedersen Bio
  • Case Sutdy: Realising visions
  • Case studies: SWH Mass Implementation Approaches
  • Case Sutdy: Reddy
  • Case Sutdy: Traffic Signal Programme
  • Water and Energy Efficiency in Municipalities
  • Dohrman Waste to energy
• Session 4
  • Financing Renewable Energy solutions through Partnerships & Borrowing
  • Colin King Biography
  • Chauke Funding through the fiscus
  • Mbanga Local govt action summary
• Mayors' Round Table
  • Presentation1: Local Government action to promote renewable energy
  • Presentation2: The case for RE development in SA D Banks
  • Graham Richards Biography
  • Presentation3: Lessons from Denmark T Sorensen
  • Result Mayors declaration Final

One planet living
Creating communities where it is easy for people to live happy and healthy lives within a fair share of the Earth’s resources.

• One Planet Living
• OPL Brochure
• OPL Principles

Urban Development Partnership seminar
Recognising that there is an increasingly favourable environment for urban development partnerships in South Africa, there is a need to step up the identification and design of suitable projects led by local government in anticipation of new funding for urban infrastructure, Financial Sector Charter targets and continued growth in the property market. This one-day seminar gave participants the opportunity to discuss the potential for urban development partnership projects and the support and incentives that are available for these projects.

• UDP Seminar Notes
• NDP and other grants
• Tax incentives
• Public Private Partnerships
• State land
• Guarantees
• City Improvement Districts

Budget Dialogue
Fiscal space for municipal action
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Well-governed Cities Reference Group meeting
Presentation on the findings of the Local Government Expenditure and Budgets Review: By TV Pillay, Chief Director: Local Government, National Treasury
Response presentation 2: By Krish Kumar, CFO: eThekwini and past president of the Institute of Municipal Financial Officers (IMFO)

Economic development: SACN LED SYMPOSIUM
ICMA City Links / SACN Local Economic Development (LED) symposium: 3 - 4 April 2006

• Address by Miss N.E. Hangana, Deputy Minister for Provincial and Local Government
• Welcome address by councillor Luntu Bobo
• DPLG: stimulating and developing sustainable local economies
• Mangaung: Botshabelo action plan
• Msunduzi: an economic development strategy for a growing capital city
• Buffalo City growth blueprint

Seminar on hiv/aids: an ongoing dialogue
SACN, with the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Council, hosted seminar as part of the ongoing dialogue on HIV and Aids and the different implications it has for various stakeholders, 2 December 2005.

• Report [pdf: 55kb]
• The implications of HIV and Aids on municipal governance: 'Cooperation for integrated responses to an uncompromising pandemic' [Word: 273kb]
• The multisectoral Aids response presentation by Dr Liz Floyd, Director, Intersectoral Aids Unit [Acrobat format: 2.3Mb]
• HIV and AIDS responses in Msunduzi Municipality presentation by Sanelisiwe Ndlovu, manager: HIV/Aids and Social Services [PowerPoint: 112kb]
• Managing HIV and Aids in the municipal workplace: a guide for local government presentation by Leon Roets, UNISA [Acrobat format: 274kb]
• Ekurhuleni multi-sectoral HIV and Aids responses presentation by MM Hlonipho [Acrobat format: 207kb]
• Ekurhuleni regional taxi council HIV and Aids responses presentation by Emma Hlophe [PowerPoint: 121kb]
• Capricorn District Municipality, district-wide HIV and Aids response programme [PowerPoint: 2.5Mb]

ETHEKWINI Transport Authority: A first for SA
Municipalities are struggling to deal with the transport crisis facing SA cites. To meet this challenge, eThekwini has set up South Africa's first Transport Authority (TA) and also read the Gautrain Initiatives.
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RESEARCH BRIEF ON SOUTH AFRICAN CITIES AND THE CHALLENGE OF HIV/AIDS
A review of city responses CoJ HIV/Aids presentation, 1 November 2004.
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2004 State of the Cities Presentations.

• The State of South African Cities 2004: introduction [227kb]
• Social trends and the inclusive city [933kb]
• City population trends [205kb]
• Economic trends & the productive city [409kb]
• Urban environment trends and the sustainable city [1.6Mb]

Economic Development Workshop
The South African Cities Network organised and hosted a 4 day training workshop for economic development officials and leaders from South African cities in early April 2003.

• PowerPoint Presentation by Greg Clarke

South African Cities and the Challenges of HIV and AIDS
A workshop investigating the measures taken by new municipal structures with varying levels of resources, capacity and productive working relationships with other spheres of government on HIV and AIDS plans and implementation strategies, 26 - 28 October 2003.

• Workshop report
• Presentation To City HIV/AIDS Practitioner’s Workshop.
• SA Cities response to HIV/AIDS
• SA Business Coalition on HIV/Aids
• Mayibuye one-stop centre
• Msunduzi on its Wards Aid Project
• Msunduzi strategy
• CINDI presentation
• SALGA

urban indicators working group meeting
Issues covered include Statistics SA and the increasing usefulness of national survey data, the State of South African Cities Report, and other projects, 2 December 2003.
Read more [doc, 40kb]

URBAN RENEWAL
A workshop on urban renewal was held on 1-2 October 2003 at Etc Centre in Port Elizabeth.

• Workshop notes
• Urban renewal report
• Urban Renewal Overview
• Msunduzi Case Study
• Mangaung Case Study

CONFERENCE
Urbanisation and housing challenges: Cities in Africa
A conference was held in Johannesburg over 6-8 October 2003.

• Conference report
• Parallel sessions on urban land management: By Dr Daniel K. Irurah
• Rapporteur's Report on Governance and Civil Society
• Shelter and Services: Rapporteur Report
• Rapporteur's report - poverty, insecurity, vulnerability and displacement

Transport: POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
Transport Working Group Business Plan 2002/03 to 2004/05: From the 8 October workshop.
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TRANSPORT WORKING GROUP: Report on Activities
Setting programme for action: The Transport Working Group met for the second time at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality and it was stressed that the Terms of Reference was considered to be a "living" document and that further amendments could be made in future, depending on circumstances, 4 July 2002.
Read more [doc, 29kb]

Transport Second Draft volume 1: Situational analysis
Towards a Strategic Transport Plan for South African Cities (Second Draft September 2002) produced by the Transport Working Group.
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Managing the impact of Hiv and aids on human resources
A workshop looking at the impact of HIV and AIDS on Municipal Human Resources Strategies, 22 November 2002.

• The need for an HIV/Aids system management standard: a presentation
• Mitigating the impact of HIV/Aids in the public service: a presentation
• HIV and Aids: The business case for interventiom: a presentation
• HIV/Aids workplace programme: a presentation
• The work of SACN: a presentation
• HIV/Aids and the economic demography of Tshwane: a presentation

urban indicators working group Strategic Plan and Presentations
Follow up on Poverty Research project and issues raised at the Measuring City Performance workshop, 8 November 2002

• Presentation: Urban Observatories
• Presentation: Urban Indicators for Thailand

DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP IN PARTNERSHIP AGAINST HIV and AIDS
Address by Ms NGW Botha, deputy minister, Provincial and Local Government on the evaluation report on the implementation of the Programme for the Development of Local Government Leadership in the Partnership Against HIV/AIDS, 19 November 2002
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Measuring City Performance workshop
A workshop to investigate the use of urban indicators to measure city development and performance, 7 November 2002

• City Development Index - Dr Joe Flood, former director of UN-Habitat's Urban Indicator Programme
• Formulation for Performance Indicators and Atandards for Development Administration - Dr Joe Flood
• Cities and Poverty Research - Prof Sue Parnell
• Workshop report

cities and poverty research presentation
Recognising and understanding, recording and monitoring, responding and intervening: Chris Rogerson, Insandla Institute looks at cities and poverty research, presentation, October 2002
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urban indicators PROGRESS REPORT
Report on progress regarding outputs from first workshop, 11 June 2002
SACN introductory board meeting, 22 - 23 July
Meeting of programme conveners, 14 August 2002
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urban indicators programme PRESENTATION
Powerpoint presentation at SACN launch, 8 October 2002
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setting up Urban Indicators Workshop
Establishing broad agreement around the objectives as well as the role and modus operandi of the Urban Indicators project, 11 June 2002
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Draft Business Plan for URBAN INDICATORS PROJECT
Draft Business Plan: detailing objectives, project/action, resources and timeframes, 2002
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Key economic issues facing cities
The chairperson (Andrew Boraine) gave a presentation on the objectives of the SA Cities Network and sets out the context of the Economic Development Programme by referring to the key economic issues facing major cities world-wide, June 2002
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CITY-level responses to hiv and aids
A workshop to investigate what cities and other partners are doing at the local level to address HIV and Aids, and to examine HIV/Aids as a health issue, and as a cross cutting developmental issue, 22 April 2002.
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Economic development: TERMS OF REFERENCE
Boosting cities' competitiveness: The programme aims to increase national economic growth and development by strengthening the competitiveness of major South African cities through mutual support, learning and cooperation on economic development.
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