The central question behind the Productive Cities programme is whether the local economy can provide a majority of residents with the means to earn a reasonable living? The programme objective is to facilitate local co-operation to enhance economic competitiveness.
Projects
Skill development project
Network and cluster for economic development
Economic information project
Urban poverty project
Knowledge project
Transportation project
TOOLKIT
Skills development strategies for inclusive and productive cities
South Africa's economic development trajectory: implications for skills development
This is an article by Marina J. Mayer and Miriam Altman published in the "Journal of Education and Work". Acrobat document [174kb]
OCTOBER 2004
Constructing a developmental nation - the challenge of including the poor in the post apartheid city
The paper was presented by Sue Parnell at conference titled "Overcoming underdevelopment in South Africa's economy" which was hosted by DBSA, HSRC and UNDP on the 28-29 October.
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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
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18-21 Nov: THINK TANK
City Economic Development Strategies
Focus: Redefining metropolitan economic strategy. Includes presentation by Dr Marc Weiss, Prague Institute for Global Urban Development Venue: Cape Town Lodge (bookings: Theresa Williams 021 422 0030, ref. 4171) Participants: Economic development councillor and senior economic development official from each city, DTI, DPLG, Provincial Government Western Cape, SALGA Contact: Lindiwe Ntsabo, ODA, 021-422 2970; Lindiwe@oda.co.za
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[Thinktank presentations]
There are many threats and challenges faced by the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (CTMM) in its search for social and economic equity for its constituents (April 2002)
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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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SEPTEMBER
Quarterly Meeting
Notes of the Economic Development Programme quaterly meeting held at Ceasars Gauteng on 19 and 20 September 2002
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PRO-POOR INTERVENTIONS
The case for sectoral targeting
Overall, it is becoming apparent that, across urban areas of the developing world, there is growing recognition of the imperative for evolving a pro-poor focus in LED planning, writes Christian M Rogerson of the University of Witwatersrand
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INTERNATIONAL TRAINING CENTRE OF THE ILO
Workshop Invitation: Nairobi, 14-17 October
Sub-regional workshop for the promotion of tools and good practices in improved urban service delivery and employment creation in Eastern and Southern Africa
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In recent years Local Economic Development (LED) has become a widely practised development strategy in the countries of the North at both the local government and community levels
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AUDIT PROJECT
Draft proposal call
The objective of the City Audit Project is to determine the economic development resource capacity, operational arrangements and initiatives of the participating SACN cities relative to one other
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DATA AND INFORMATION PROJECT
Prioritised system
of data acquisition
One of the collective problems facing cities is the lack of reliable, accurate and appropriate data and information to enable proper policy formulation, project implementation and resource allocation
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