Lahti City-Bojanala Platinum District Municipality Co-operation Summary
3 Correspondences between the Integrated Development Plan and the Project Plan for
The 2009/2010 Reviewed Integrated Development Plan of the Bojanala Platinum Dis- trict Municipality (BPDM) was prepared by gleaning information from the yearly plans of each Department of the BPDM.265 The Lahti-BPDM co-operation project is
housed under the Department of Community Development Services of BPDM.266
Table 1 below discusses the correspondences between the six Key Performance Are- as and the Lahti-Bojanala Platinum District Municipality project plan for 2010, which
265 Kanjee 2010.
can be found from among all the key issues/challenges and objectives of the six Key Performance Areas.
Table 1. Correspondences between the BPDM 2009/2010 Reviewed Integrated Develop- ment Plan and the Project Plan for 2010
BPDM: 2009/2010 REVIEWED INTEGRATED LAHTI-BPDM PROJECT PLAN 2010
DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Key Performance Area 1: Basic Service Delivery General Objectives, Results and Activities & Infrastructure Investment: Water and Sanitation
Key issues and challenges: General objectives:
• Mines disproportionate consumption of potable • Raising awareness in the administration on the
water; importance of environmental protection and
• Influx caused by the mines; sustainable development;
• Poor sanitation in predominantly rural and tribal • Technical expertise transfer on:
areas; - Local Agenda 21, water and air quality and waste
• Lack of capacity in other local municipalities to management and communication technology execute their function as Water Service Authorities; (North to South),
• The BPDM is largely dependent on water from - Regional level environmental administration and sources external to the district (totalling integrated development planning as a tool for
approximately 33 595ml/year); better environmental management • The overall water consumption within the district (South to North); is likely to increase by at least 65Ml/day over • Increasing the awareness of citizens about the next 5 years; environmental issues through Local Agenda 21 • Deteriorating water quality in Hartebeespoort activities implemented by local governments; Dam and Crocodile River; • Promoting good governance and improving the • Capacity and levels of maintenance of sewage capacity of the partners in global co-operation and treatment plants in the district and potential project administrational practices.
impact on surface and groundwater sources; Results:
• Potential impact of the extensive use of • Continuous process in BPDM to develop and
unimproved pit latrines in rural areas on the enforce the environmental policy;
quality of ground water sources which are used • Improved capacity in staff and administrational extensively as source of potable water supply systems and practices to manage waste, water
in these areas; and air quality;
• Required resources, especially budget to • Continuous Local Agenda 21 programmes and
eradicate the estimated backlog of households increased level of awareness on sustainable
without basic level of water and sanitation; development;
• Provision of water and sanitation to schools and • Raised transparency in the administration, better
clinics with no or inadequate access. accessibility to different funding sources and
Key objectives: increased capacity to administrate projects.
• The provision of sustainable services; Activities:
• Water resource management; • Development of sustainability and
• Institutional arrangements. environmental management (environmental
District-wide objectives relating to water services policy development and enforcement and
(including sanitation): the development of environmental reviewing
• To provide basic water and sanitation infra- processes);
structure to all communities, specifically rural • Environmental awareness (Planning of a
areas; Sustainable Communication and Information
• To provide services at appropriate standards at Centre for Hartebeespoort Dam. The Centre will rates that are financially sustainable to end-users; serve as an information centre on sustainable • The need to supplement both bulk water supply development for the community and businesses);
and reticulation infrastructure; • Promotion of the remediation plans on Bospoort
• To improve the quality of water delivered to all and Hartbeespoort Dam (water quality monitoring
end-users within the district; and remediation processes);
• The need for stakeholder involvement in the • Water monitoring cooperation (water monitoring
services planning. upgrading and staff training from North to South
District-wide objectives relating to water resource by new portable field laboratory devices that will
management: be set in use in BPDM in 2010).
• To manage impacts on the utilization and quality of both surface and ground water resources; • To reduce the level of unaccounted for water in
the district through appropriate demand management strategies;
• To contribute towards the financial sustainability of Water Services Authorities through appropriate
cost recovery mechanisms;
• To introduce appropriate water use conservation and protection strategies.
Objectives relating to institutional arrangements: • To develop the institutional capacity of Water
Services Authorities;
• To finalize all institutional arrangements including the formalization of all agreements between Water Services Authority and bulk and retail Water Service Providers;
• Local municipalities to develop and/or update Water Services Development Plans.
Key Performance Area 1: Basic Service Delivery &
Infrastructure Investment: Land and Environment General Objectives, Results and Activities Management
Key issues and challenges: General objectives:
• The need for improved air and water quality • Raising awareness in the administration on the
in the district. importance of environmental protection and
Objectives: sustainable development;
In terms of the District Environmental Management • Technical expertise transfer on:
Policy, council commits itself to continually improve – Local Agenda 21, water and air quality and waste
its environmental performance, beyond the management and communication technology
requirements of current legislation or regulation. (North to South),
In this respect it will specifically endeavour to: – Regional level environmental administration and • Encourage the reduced consumption of water, integrated development planning as a tool for
energy and other natural resources; better environmental management (South to
• Pursue progressive waste reduction, reuse North);
and recycling initiatives to reduce the amount • Increasing the awareness of citizens about environ- of waste generated from Council activities and mental issues through Local Agenda 21 activities
within the District; implemented by local governments;
• Ensure and encourage the provision of effective • Promoting good governance and improving the waste management services to all the commun- capacity of the partners in global co-operation and ities within the District area of jurisdiction; project administrational practices.
• Encourage the prevention and minimization of Results:
environmental pollution to air, water and land • Continuous process in BPDM to develop and within the District to maintain and improve the enforce the environmental policy;
health and welfare of the public; • Improved capacity in staff and administrational
• Support the rehabilitation of polluted water and systems and practices to manage waste, water
land areas within the District; and air quality;
• Provide environmental education and training • Continuous Local Agenda 21 programmes and
within the Council and its staff on the increased level of awareness on sustainable
implementation of this Policy and promote development;
environmental education within the whole • Raised transparency in the administration, better
community. accessibility to different funding sources and
increased capacity to administrate projects. In order to achieve the objectives, the Council will Activities:
implement an Environmental Management System • Development of sustainability and environmental
(EMS) which is currently being developed by management (environmental policy development
service provider appointed in October 2008. and enforcement and the development of environ-
The system will: mental reviewing processes);
• Be integrated into the existing management • Development of the peer review activity (peer
practices of the municipality; review of waste management will be conducted
• Set objectives and implement programmes in for South by North);
order to minimize the negative environmental • Environmental awareness (Planning of a Sustain- effects and increase the positive effects of the able Communication and Information Centre for
Council’s activities; Hartebeespoort Dam. The Centre will serve as an
• Apply to all activities undertaken by the Council, information centre on sustainable development for
including contracted out services as new the community and businesses);
contracts are negotiated; • Waste Management (Planning of a Sustainable
• Publish at appropriate intervals, a Statement of Waste Management Centre for Rustenburg. The
the Council’s environmental performance; Centre will serve as a recycling centre, where used
• Include mechanisms for consultation with both household and electronic goods will be repaired
regulatory bodies and the public. and recycled. It is also going to have an educa-
Table 1. Correspondences between the BPDM 2009/2010 Reviewed Integrated Develop- ment Plan and the Project Plan for 2010 Continued
tional purpose);
• Promotion of the remediation plans on Bospoort
and Hartbeespoort Dam (water quality monitoring
and remediation processes);
• Expertise (Employee) exchange – long term (Ex-
change of officials in 2010 will focus on waste
management. The exchange will be conducted from South to North. The employee exchange will be integrated with the Peer Review activity);
• Water monitoring cooperation (water monitoring
upgrading and staff training from North to South
by new portable field laboratory devices that will
be set in use in BPDM in 2010).
Key Performance Area 1: Basic Service Delivery &
Infrastructure Investment: Waste Management General Objectives, Results and Activities
Key issues/challenges: General objectives:
• Environmental conditions on many of the • Raising awareness in the administration on the landfill sites are very poor; importance of environmental protection and sus- • Informal salvaging takes places at almost all tainable development; landfill sites; • Technical expertise transfer on: • Use of sites not designed for waste disposal; - Local Agenda 21, water and air quality and waste • Very little manpower and equipment/vehicles; management and communication technology • Practices of disposing problematic wastes; (North to South) • Availability of environmentally and publicly - Regional level environmental administration and
acceptable airspace. integrated development planning as a tool for bet-
Objectives: ter environmental management (South to North);
• Organisational and Institutional structure, • Increasing the awareness of citizens about environ- Finances and Resources: To create, maintain and mental issues through Local Agenda 21 activities continuously improve on an effective, adequately implemented by local governments;
resourced and financed, harmonized • Promoting good governance and improving the
organizational structure for waste management, capacity of the partners in global co-operation and which includes for effective institutional inter- project administrational practices.
action with local municipalities, and which will Results:
guarantee co-operative governance; • Continuous process in BPDM to develop and
• By-laws: To develop new by-laws that reflect enforce the environmental policy;
the mandate and vision of the BPDM, which are • Improved capacity in staff and administrational compliant with current legislation, and which systems and practices to manage waste, water will assist in coordinating and consolidating by- and air quality; law requirements of local municipalities and the • Continuous Local Agenda 21 programmes and BPDM within the jurisdictional area; increased level of awareness on sustainable devel- • Waste Information System: To develop an opment; appropriate operational information system, • Raised transparency in the administration, better which will identify, qualify and quantify waste accessibility to different funding sources and in-
streams generated in the District, from generators creased capacity to administrate projects. of waste, waste practices to disposal of waste, Activities:
and that will allow for the successful manage- • Development of sustainability and environmental
ment of waste throughout the district; management (environmental policy development
• Waste management services: Ensure/encourage and enforcement and the development of
the provision of effective and legal waste environmental reviewing processes);
management services to all communities within • Development of the peer review activity (peer the District area of Jurisdiction - Environmental review of waste management will be conducted
Policy; for South by North);
• Waste Minimisation and Recycling: Pursue • Waste Management (Planning of a Sustainable
progressive waste reduction, reuse and recycling Waste Management Centre for Rustenburg. The initiatives to reduce the amount of waste Centre will serve as a recycling centre, where used generated from Council activities and within the household and electronic goods will be repaired District (where appropriate exceeding Govern- and recycled. It is also going to have an educa-
ment targets) - Environmental Policy; tional purpose);
• Disposal: To ensure that only environmentally • Expertise (Employee) exchange – long term and publicly acceptable landfills are operational (Exchange of officials in 2010 will focus on waste
throughout the district, that regionalisation of management. The exchange will be conducted disposal facilities is promoted and enforced and from South to North. The employee exchange will that planning is formalised to ensure sufficient be integrated with the Peer Review activity).
Table 1. Correspondences between the BPDM 2009/2010 Reviewed Integrated Develop- ment Plan and the Project Plan for 2010 Continued
long-term waste disposal capacity;
• Education and Awareness: Provide environmental education and training within the Council and its staff on the implementation of this Policy and promote environmental education within the whole community - Environmental Policy. Key Performance Area 5: Good Governance and
Public Participation General Objectives, Results and Activities
Objectives: General objectives:
• Ensure stakeholder participation: The Municipal • Increasing the awareness of citizens about environ- Systems Act requires a municipality to develop mental issues through Local Agenda 21 activities
a culture of municipal governance that implemented by local governments;
complements formal representative government • Promoting good governance and improving the
with a system of participatory governance. The capacity of the partners in global co-operation and District will ensure the strengthening of ward project administrational practices;
committees at local municipality level through • Improve and develop communication practices and
capacity building, communication and technology between the partners and raise
consultation on key policy decisions of Council. transparency in communication towards public. Council will, through appropriate mechanisms, Results:
report to communities the performance of the • Continuous Local Agenda 21 programmes and
municipality with regard to the implementation increased level of awareness on sustainable
of the priorities and objectives of the IDP. development;
Includes projects e.g. on community participation, • Raised transparency in the administration, better consultations and empowerment, and to develop accessibility to different funding sources and
and implement community participation increased capacity to administrate projects;
strategies. • Regular and accurate communication between the
partners and public awareness about the co-opera- tion and its topics.
Activities:
• Environmental awareness (Planning of a Sustain-
able Communication and Information Centre for Hartebeespoort Dam. The Centre will serve as an information centre on sustainable development for the community and businesses);
• Waste Management (Planning of a Sustainable
Waste Management Centre for Rustenburg. The Centre will serve as a recycling centre, where used household and electronic goods will be repaired and recycled. It is also going to have an educa- tional purpose);
• Development of Internet based communication
methods: webpage development and video con- ferencing.
Key Performance Area 1: Basic Service Delivery & Infrastructure Investment: Roads & Transport; Housing; Education; Health; Social Development; Sports, Arts & Cultural Issues; Disaster Management; Fire & Rescue Services; Safety & Security – Key Performance Area 2: Municipal Transformation
and Organisational Development –
Key Performance Area 3: Local Economic
Development –
Key Performance Area 4: Municipal Financial
Viability and Management –
Key Performance Area 6: Spatial Rationale –
Sources: Bojanala Platinum District Municipality 2009, pp. 22–129; City of Lahti and Bojanala Platinum District Municipality 2009, pp. 14–17, Logical Framework Matrix.
Table 1 above does not contain all the key issues/challenges and objectives of each Key Performance Area discussed in the Table, but a large share of them. Table 1 contains all
Table 1. Correspondences between the BPDM 2009/2010 Reviewed Integrated Develop- ment Plan and the Project Plan for 2010 Continued
the objectives, results and activities of the project plan for 2010, with the exception of the activities of strengthening and broadening the ownership in partner municipalities. The activity of strengthening and broadening the ownership in partner municipali- ties is not discussed in Table 1 above because the project plan for 2010 does not define precisely which objectives and activities will be discussed in the discussions between Nastola Municipality and one of the BPDM Local Municipalities. This is because the discussions were still to be held at the time of the preparation of the project plan. The project plan states that the discussions will aim at similar development opportunities as between the Municipalities of Hollola and Moses Kotane (eco-tourism activities, further exploring on best practices related to infrastructure, promoting of water moni- toring cooperation and the impact of mining to the environment). It is very likely that also this activity will be in conformity with the Reviewed Integrated Development Plan 2009/2010 of BPDM. Therefore it can be concluded that the objectives, results and activities of the Lahti-BPDM co-operation project plan for 2010 are in con- formity with the 2009/2010 Reviewed Integrated Development Plan of BPDM.
4
Views of the Project Coordinators
This section summarises the responses of the Project Coordinators of the City of Lahti and the Bojanala Platinum District Municipality (BPDM) to the study questionnaire sent to them in January 2010 (please refer to Appendix 1).
The section “Processes of Creating the Strategic Plans in the North and the South” summarises also the information given in the 2009/2010 Reviewed Integrated Develop-
ment Plan of the BPDM on the preparation of the Integrated Development Plan.
4.1 Strategies for International Co-Operation in the North and the South
According to the Project Coordinator of the City of Lahti, “the Lahti City Strategy 2025 states that Lahti strives to be ‘an internationally renowned environmentally fo- cused city and a strong centre of environmental expertise and business’. This is one of the strategic success factors identified in the strategy. The guidelines defined in the strategy are applied in all operations and development of the city.”267
According to the Project Coordinator of the Bojanala Platinum District Municipal- ity (BPDM), international co-operation or international activities are not mentioned in the 2009/2010 Reviewed Integrated Development Plan. BPDM does not have a separate strategy for international co-operation.268
4.2 Processes of Creating the Strategic Plans in the North and the South
Lahti: “The process for creating the new strategy started in January 2009 and involved several council seminars and work carried out in the management group, the strategy team, and the various service departments. Also, the latest research results and statisti- cal information were utilised as background material.”269
“During the process, strategic values and operating principles were defined and the current situation of the city, the change in its external operating environment, and emerging strategic possibilities and challenges were assessed. The new vision of the City of Lahti, the related strategic goals and success factors, and the indicators or as- sessment criteria related to each of the success factors form the fundamental element of the strategy.”270
267 Aalto 2010. 268 Kanjee 2010. 269 Aalto 2010. 270 Aalto 2010.
“The core of the strategy was initially discussed at a meeting on 1 June 2009, and the strategy work continues. A complementary implementation plan that presents the essential strategic measures, responsibilities, and the long-term target levels for indica- tors will be prepared. Simultaneously the plan will be complemented with the addi- tion of any missing indicators and, if necessary, projects will be launched to develop these.”271
“The implementation of the strategy will be evaluated in mid-term (in 2010) and more extensively at the end of the council term, in 2012. The indicators related to the success factors and their target levels form an essential evaluation metric.”272
Bojanala Platinum District Municipality: “Information is gleaned from each De- partment’s yearly plans.”273
According to the 2009/2010 Reviewed Integrated Development Plan of the Bo-