Nkomazi Local Municipality 20 - Co-operative Governance and ...

Other constraints and challengesPoor relations between small-emerging and established businessesLack of information on government programmes that promote and support economic developmentLack of initiative and good attitude towards economic development among community membersLack or absence of incubation houses and business parks for nurturing and growing small businessesHigh crime levels and security concerns among visitors, residents and businesses14.4. Job creation InitiativesEPWP and CWPThe municipality, in collaboration with the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs; Mpumalanga Tourism andParks Agency, Department of Public Works, Roads and Transport; and Ehlanzeni District Municipality are implementing, interalia, thefollowing EPWP programmes:1. The Tourism Ambassador Learnership Programme employing 21 young people;2. The Waste Management Learnership Programme employing 100 young people;3. The Clean Town Programme employing 20 people;Local procurementsThe Supply Chain Management Policy in the municipality promotes the prioritisation of local service providers in the procurement ofgoods and services.Comprehensive Rural Development Programme (Crdp)Comprehensive Rural Development is one of the key priorities of government, aimed at creating sustainable rural communitiesthroughout the country. The programme will seek to achieve social cohesion and development in rural communities and is based onthree key pillars namely:coordinated and integrated broad-based agrarian transformationan improved land reform programmeStrategic investments in economic and social infrastructure in rural areas.The programme is focused on enabling rural people to take control of their destiny, with the support from government, and therebydealing effectively with rural poverty through the optimal use and management of natural resources. It is envisaged that the objectiveof this programme will best be achieved through a co-ordinated and integrated broadbased agrarian transformation as well as thestrategic investment in economic and social infrastructure that will benefit the entire rural communities. The programme will besuccessful when it becomes apparent that “sustainable and vibrant rural communities” are succeeding.The programme is currently being implemented in two wards within the municipality: wards 16 and 19. These wards cover thefollowing village: Ntunda Skhwahlane Part of Mzinti Sibange Madadeni Part of MaguduKey to the implementation of CRDP is the realisation of goals in relation to skills development, job creation, reduction of poverty,sustainable infrastructure development and human settlements as well as the facilitation of social cohesion in rural areas. The CRDPrequires active participation by all stakeholders; rural people must take the centre stage in the improvement of their own quality oflife. Accordingly the municipality has established a CRDP Council of Stakeholders (CoS) as both a coordinating and a decision makingstructure for the implementation of CRDP. CRDP is championed by the Executive Mayor who is the chairperson of the Council ofStakeholders, the MMC for Planning and Development preside over CRDP CoS meetings in the absence of the Executive Mayor. TheCRDP CoS has established a task team toNKLM Integrated Development Plan 2012_2013 82