Baseline Study for DDPBaseline Study for DDPin uMgungundlovu Districtin uMgungundlovu District
Built Environment Support Group Built Environment Support Group www.besg.co.zawww.besg.co.za
Background
• Research based on questionnaires completed by participants of the BESG Deepening Democracy Project (DDP) funded by the French Embassy CSDF
• Forms baseline for the DDP• Research focus: basic services and public
participation
Key points
• Low level of awareness of FBS• Majority of DDP participants are indigent• Public participation is a concern:
• Attendance at municipal meetings• Awareness of the IDP
• Perceived poor municipal response to complaints
Beginning of a processBESG wants to begin a process of interaction with
your municipality to look at issues of:
Public participation in order to enhance service delivery
• Advertising (how?, when?, where?)• Municipal meetings (where?, when?, who?)• Information dissemination (how?, access?)
Indigent policy and FBS implementation • Visibility in the IDP• Adequate funding (equitable share, cross-subsidisation)• Linkage to strategies for poverty alleviation
Thank You!
Siyabonga!
Merci!