Three-Sphere Planning Session

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Three-Sphere Planning Session


Topic: “Delineating key priorities for consolidation and implementation during the final year of the sixth dispensation”
Date: 29 - 30 March 2023

This three sphere planning session seeks to ensure that the appropriate mechanisms are put in place, so as to effectively address policy implementation weaknesses and coordination disjunctures, across the three spheres of government. The session also seeks to identify and address underlying weakness across the political and bureaucratic interface, which often impede the accelerated implementation of key development priorities.

The session further seeks to establish and institutionalise coherence in three sphere (planning and implementation processes of development catalysing priorities of the National Development Plan), while enabling the NCOP to perform its constitutional mandate to appropriately serve as a three-sphere coordination and implementation construct, through targeted and outcome based oversight.

The overarching objectives of this three-sphere planning session are therefore as follows:

  • Delineate critical priorities for implementation and oversight, in the final year of the sixth dispensation (as guided by the developmental priorities of the NDP, MTSF, SONA priorities of the sixth dispensation, including cascaded developmental perspectives at the subnational level)
  • Delineate critical priorities, as responsive to South Africa’s broader developmental landscape
  • Effectively invoke the NCOP’s three-sphere coordination role, in order to fast-track the implementation of NDP priorities that require three sphere planning, cooperation and collaboration for their effective implementation
  • Develop the commensurate tracking, monitoring, oversight and report back processes, which will run in tandem with the implementation timelines to be articulated by the planning session, in line with Parliament’s transformative developmental agenda

Day 1: 29 March 2023
Session 1
Programme Director: Hon. SE Lucas, MP
Deputy Chairperson: National Council of Provinces

Time

Activity

Responsible person(s)

09h00 - 10h00

Arrival and Registration

ALL

10h00 - 10h02

National Anthem

ALL

10h02 - 10h10

Opening and Welcome

Hon. AN Masondo, MP
Chairperson: National Council of Provinces

10h10 - 10h15

Contextualizing the imperatives of Three Sphere Planning, for improved Coordination and implementation of Key Development Priorities of the NDP

  • Giving Expression to an NCOP Constitutional Imperative
  • Project Accelerate: advancing policy implementation, through improved three sphere planning and coordination

Hon. SE Lucas, MP
Deputy Chairperson: National Council of Provinces

10h15 - 11h30

National Planning Commission: High Impact Priorities, Programmes and Projects Delineated for Consolidation and Accelerated Implementation, during the last 12 months of the Sixth dispensation (Perspectives from NPC Work Streams)

  • Dr Pulane Molokwane: Chairperson of the Governance Cluster Work Stream
  • Mr. Ravi Naidoo: Chairperson of the Economic Cluster Work Stream
  • Prof. Phakama Ntshongwana: Chairperson of the Social Cluster Work Stream
  • Ms. Nikiwe Bikitsha: Chairperson of the Communications Task Team
  • Dr. Boitumelo Ramatsetse: Chairperson of the NPC Strategy Task Team

The National Planning Commission
Led by 
Professor T. Maluleke
Deputy Chairperson: National Planning Commission of South Africa  

11h30 - 11h45

Gender Transformation

  • Delineate factors contributing to the failure to reach 40% target for allocating public procurement resources towards supporting women-owned businesses.
  • Provide a status report on the state of gender mainstreaming in the country and delineate three-sphere action plan on how to address challenges facing gender mainstreaming.

Ms. N. Mazibuko
Chairperson of the Commission on Gender Equality

11h45 - 12h00

Finance and Fiscal Commission Perspectives:
Costing and Funding the NDP

  • Long term fiscal mapping and reprioritization, focusing on the Development Catalysing Priorities of the NDP
  • Proposed Prevention and Detection Mechanisms to address Fiscal Leakage Challenges (Mechanisms)

Service Delivery

  • Delineating key priorities to Improve Service delivery through the intergovernmental fiscal relations system, with particular focus on how the MIG can be effectively used to address infrastructure challenges at local government level

Highlight the required leadership, management and governance systems required, for sustainable service delivery 

Dr. PN Mbava
Chairperson of the Finance and Fiscal Commission

12h00 - 13h00

Interactive Session/Questions

ALL

13h00 - 14h00

Lunch

ALL

Session 2
Chairperson of the Session: Hon. AN Masondo, MP
Chairperson, National Council of Provinces
Co-Chairperson of the Session: Hon W Ngwenya, MP
House Chairperson International Relations

14h20 - 14h35

Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Priorities

  • Key Local Government priorities delineated for accelerated implementation during the last 12 months of the sixth dispensation
  • Provide progress report to the NCOP on the state of local government covering the Political, Governance, Administrative, Financial Management and Service delivery.
  • Provide a progress report on the 64 dysfunctional municipalities which need to be supported through the development and implementation of the Municipal Support and Intervention Plan (MSIPs)
  • Provide a Priority List of Infrastructure Projects, for implementation through the MIG, for accelerated implementation, including the spatial reach, completion times lines and envisaged impact upon the completion of such projects
  • Provide overall implementation timelines for all listed/delineated priority projects for completion before the end of the sixth dispensation

Hon. T Nkadimeng, MP
Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

14h50 - 15h05

Priority Public Works and Infrastructure Projects

  • Key Public Works and Infrastructure priorities delineated for accelerated implementation during the last 14 months of the sixth dispensation
  • Provide a detailed report on the status and expenditure to date on all the 62 approved Infrastructure Investment Plan, including key completion milestones to be recorded before the end of the sixth dispensation

Hon. S Zikalala, MP
Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure

15h05 - 15h20

Communications and Digital Technologies Priorities

  • Delineated priorities for feed-back and strategic communication to the electorate
  • Delineated communications platforms and mechanisms for targeted communication, outlining achievements in implementing the electoral mandate, the 2019-2014 MTSF priorities, milestones of the sixth dispensation
  • Mechanisms in place for sustained and strategic communication of the milestones of the sixth dispensation, with particular focus on line department achievements

Hon. M Gungubele, MP
Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies

15h20 - 16h30

Interactive Discussion

ALL

16h45 - 16h55

Summary and way forward

Hon. SE Lucas, MP
Deputy Chairperson, NCOP

16h55 - 17h00

Word of thanks and way forward

Hon. AN Masondo, MP
Chairperson: National Council of Provinces

Day 2: 30 March 2023
Session 3
Programme Director: Hon. SE Lucas, MP
Deputy Chairperson: National Council of Provinces

09h00 - 10h00

Arrival and Registration

ALL

10h00 - 10h02

National Anthem

ALL

10h02 - 10h05

Opening and Welcome

Hon. AN Masondo, MP
Chairperson: National Council of Provinces

10h05 - 10h30

Key Note Address: Strengthening Planning and Coordination between the NCOP/NA and the Executive, focussing on the following sub-themes

  • The finalization of key legislation before the sixth dispensation concludes its business
  • Facilitating timeous responses on progress made in implementing executive commitments and resolutions of the house
  • Institutionalising an appropriate planning mechanism for annual three sphere planning, consultation, monitoring and tracking of government’s programme of action, between the NCOP and the Executive, in line with the commitments of the NDP and MTSF
  • Strengthening Cooperation Between the NCOP and the Executive

Hon. P Mashatile, MP
Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa
Leader of Government Business

10h30 - 10h45

Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Perspectives:
Overarching Planning Perspectives to Accelerate Implementation of Key Development Priorities 

  • “Accelerating the Implementation of the National Development Plan, establishing coherence in three sphere planning, delineating key priorities for implementation during the final year of the sixth dispensation”

Hon Ms. M. Ramokgopa, MP
Minister in the Presidency Responsible for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation

10h45 - 11h00

Small Business Development Priorities 

  • Key Small Business Ministry priorities delineated for accelerated implementation during the last 14 months of the sixth dispensation
  • Provide progress report on the National Integrated Small Enterprise Development Masterplan in seeking to ensure enabling environment for ease of entry, trade and exit for SMMEs and how the plan will ensure an increase the number of viable Small, Medium and Micro enterprises operating in our economy.
  • Provide a progress report on the Township and Rural Entrepreneurship Programme (TREP) and issues which need to be delineated in the coming 14 Months, to transform and integrate opportunities in township and rural areas into productive business ventures.
  • Outline delineated priorities, programmes and projects that will require the cooperative participation of provincial and local government, to ensure successful implementation. 

Hon Ms. S.T. Ndabeni-Abrahams, MP
Minister of Small Business Development

 

  

11h00 - 12h00

Provincial Legacy Projects and Implementation Timelines

  • Key provincial priorities delineated for accelerated implementation during the last 12 months of the sixth dispensation
  • Highlight key development projects for accelerated implementation across all clusters
  • Provide implementation timelines for priority projects across all clusters, including their spatial reach and impact across districts and localities

Premiers of Provinces
Hon Mr. O. Mabuyane, MPL - Premier Eastern Cape
Hon Mr M. Dukwana, MPL - Premier Free State
Hon Mr. P. Lesufi, MPL - Premier Gauteng
Hon Ms. N. Dube, MPL - Premier Kwa Zulu Natal
Hon Mr. S. Mathabatha, MPL - Premier Limpopo Province
Hon Ms. R. Mtsweni-Tsipane, MPL - Premier Mpumanlanga 
Hon Mr. B. Maape, MPL - Premier North West
Hon Dr Z. Saul, MPL  - Premier Northern Cape

12h00 - 12h25

Chair of Chair Statements (NCOP and Provincial Legislatures)

  • The role of the Provincial Legislature Committees in strengthening oversight processes, through a targeted thematic and policy focus, for the accelerated implementation of executive commitments.

Hon AJ Nyambi, MP - House Chairperson Committees, National Council of Provinces
Hon T. Duba, MPL - Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature
Hon S. Nkosi-Malobane, MPL - Gauteng Provincial Legislature
Hon M.A. Zulu, MPL - Deputy Chair of Chairs - Kwa Zulu Natal Provincial Legislature
Hon S. Monyamane, MPL - Limpopo Provincial Legislature 

Session 4
Chairperson of the Session: Hon Ms. W. Ngwenya, MP
House Chairperson, International Relations
Co-Chairperson of the Session: Hon Mr. AJ Nyambi, MP
House Chairperson Committees and Oversight

12h25 - 13h05

Interactive Discussion/ Questions

ALL

13h05 - 13h10

Summary and way forward

Hon. SE Lucas, MP
Deputy Chairperson, NCOP

13h10 - 13h15

Word of thanks

Hon. AN Masondo, MP
Chairperson: National Council of Provinces