Lekwa Local Municipality - Co-operative Governance and ...

313 SECTION: 3 NATIONAL AND PROVINCIAL PLANNING FRAMEWORKSAFFECTING LEKWA LOCAL MUNICIPALITY.There are strategies and policies that hold the three spheres of local government together. These strategies and policies guideand provide a framework for integrated service delivery. The Local Municipality of Lekwa has made efforts to align to the keyNational and Provincial Strategies;• New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD)• National Spatial Development Perspective (NSDP)• The Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s)• Provincial Growth and Development Strategy (PGDS)• Accelerated Shared Growth Initiative of South Africa (ASGISA)• Integrated Sustainable Development Rural Strategy (ISDRS)• Land Redistribution for Agricultural Development (LRAD)• Gert Sibande District Municipality Spatial Development Framework3.1 New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD)The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) is a vision and strategic framework for Africa’s Renewal. The NEPADstrategic framework document arises from a mandate given to the five initiating Heads of State (Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Senegal,and South Africa) by the Organization of African Unity (OAU) to develop an integrated socio-economic development frameworkfor Africa. NEPAD is designed to address the current challenges facing the African continent. Issues such as the escalatingpoverty levels, underdevelopment and the continued marginalization of Africa needed a new radical intervention, spearheadedby African leaders, to develop a new vision that would guarantee Africa’s Renewal.The primary objectives of NEPAD are as follows:• To eradicate poverty;• To place African countries, both individually and collectively, on a path of sustainable growth and development;• To halt the marginalization of Africa in the globalization process and enhance its full beneficial integration into theglobal economy; and• To accelerated the empowerment of women.The NEPAD priorities are to establish the Conditions for Sustainable Development by ensuring:• Peace and security;• Democracy and good political, economic and corporate governance;• Regional co-operation and integration; and• Capacity building.Policy reforms and increased investment need to take place in the following priority sectors:• Agriculture;• Human development in health, education, science, technology and skills development;• Building and improving infrastructure, such as ICT, energy, transport, water and sanitation;• Promoting diversification of production and exports, particularly with respect to agro industries, manufacturing,mining, mineral beneficiation and tourism; and• Accelerating intra-African trade and improving access to markets of developed countries.Key Implications for Lekwa Local MunicipalityCross- border municipalities such as Thabo Mofutsanyane District Municipality and Northern Free State DistrictMunicipality to the South-South West and their LED Strategies should contain practical strategies for feasible twinning projectswith the aforementioned Municipalities.Municipality’s LED Strategy should also take into consideration the lessons learnt from the successes and failures that havebeen applied in the neighboring municipalities in the face of socio-economic and economic challenges.LED projects identified for the Municipality by the LED Strategy should embark on eradicating poverty, promoting sustainablegrowth and developing and facilitating the empowerment of women and the poor. The LED Strategy should also promoteagriculture, human development, infrastructure development and the diversification of exports.Final Integrated Development Plan (IDP) 2010/2011 for Lekwa Local Municipality