2014 Eastern Cape Vision 2030 Provincial Development Plan Flourishing people in a thriving province CONTENTS A FUTURE WE CAN BUILD ................................................................................................................. I OUR VISION FOR 2030 – a point along a journey towards ubuntu... .................................................. IV A note on the design and structure of this document ............................................................................ V PART 1: OVERVIEW OF THE PROVINCIAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN ................................................ 1 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND ............................................................................................... 2 A provincial plan rooted in the NDP and a vision for a just society .................................................... 2 Approach to planning, implementation and accountability ................................................................ 3 A SUMMARY OF CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE EASTERN CAPE ...................... 4 Key Challenges reiterated ................................................................................................................ 4 Opportunities summarised ................................................................................................................ 9 STRATEGY, GOALS AND ACTIONS ................................................................................................ 13 An integrated framework for human development .......................................................................... 13 A principled approach ..................................................................................................................... 16 A summary of the five goals ........................................................................................................... 17 CATALYTIC FLAGSHIPS AND MILESTONES .................................................................................. 26 ILIMA LABANTU ............................................................................................................................ 26 Ematholeni! .................................................................................................................................... 33 Infrastructure for equitable, sustainable development ..................................................................... 36 Capabilities for local action and development – getting the basics right .......................................... 41 INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR IMPLEMENTATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY ................ 46 Implementation principles ............................................................................................................... 49 Risks to successful implementation ................................................................................................ 49 Key success factors and actions .................................................................................................... 51 PART 2: THE PLAN ELABORATED ................................................................................................. 53 RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSFORMATION ........................................................................ 54 Prioritising rural development ......................................................................................................... 54 Challenges ..................................................................................................................................... 57 The PDP’s approach to rural transformation ................................................................................... 58 The rural development agenda ....................................................................................................... 62 Institutional arrangements for rural development ............................................................................ 63 Conclusion ..................................................................................................................................... 64 GOAL 1: A GROWING, INCLUSIVE AND EQUITABLE ECONOMY .................................................. 65 Challenges ..................................................................................................................................... 67 Strategic objectives and actions ..................................................................................................... 70 GOAL 2: AN EDUCATED, EMPOWERED AND INNOVATIVE CITIZENRY ....................................... 87 Challenges ..................................................................................................................................... 88 Strategic objectives and actions ..................................................................................................... 92 GOAL 3: A HEALTHY POPULATION .............................................................................................. 103 Challenges ................................................................................................................................... 104 Strategic objectives and actions ................................................................................................... 105 GOAL 4: VIBRANT, EQUITABLY ENABLED COMMUNITIES ......................................................... 116 Challenges ................................................................................................................................... 116 Strategic objectives and actions ................................................................................................... 118 GOAL 5: CAPABLE, CONSCIENTIOUS AND ACCOUNTABLE INSTITUTIONS ............................. 131 Challenges ................................................................................................................................... 132 Strategic objectives and actions ................................................................................................... 133 A FUTURE WE CAN BUILD An introduction by the Premier of the Eastern Cape When the National Development Plan (NDP) was presented to the nation in 2011, it set out a vision for South Africa – a prosperous country with no poverty or inequality. The NDP states that South Africa has the means, the goodwill, the people and the resources to achieve this goal. The NDP further states that at the core of the plan are capabilities – capabilities for people and country to thrive and flourish, and the creation of opportunities for such capabilities to manifest across citizens, the state, institutions and all sectors of society. The people of the Eastern Cape share this vision. In 2014, the Executive Council of the Eastern Cape Provincial Government appointed the Eastern Cape Planning Commission (ECPC) to facilitate a participatory exercise of defining what the NDP should mean for the province. The objective was to interpret the NDP against specific challenges facing the Eastern Cape, and develop a Provincial Development Plan (PDP) that can focus the province’s creative response to these challenges. A sustainable future for the Eastern Cape rests on a people-centred development to achieve five related goals as agreed by all stakeholders involved in the process to develop this plan. These goals are: An inclusive, equitable and growing economy for the province An educated, innovative and empowered citizenry A healthy population Vibrant, equitably enabled communities Capable agents across government and other institutional partners committed to the development of the province. These goals will be pursued with a focus on rural development to address serious inherited structural deficiencies – the legacy of apartheid has left the rural regions of the Eastern Cape underdeveloped on the one hand, and an urban economy that is unduly stressed and experiencing slow growth on the other. Addressing this spatial unevenness in endowment and development will take time and hard work, but it can be done with the right will and commitment. The design of implementation processes for the PDP, the organisation of agents, and careful planning around intended effects and targets, should also be done with the additional objective of positively shifting our attitudes around gender and other arbitrarily discriminative biases.. To realise the plan’s development goals, the province has also identified four catalytic flagships that will establish a sound foundation for other developments to flourish. These catalytic initiatives cut across sectors and integrate the efforts and resources of many role-players. The provincial catalytic flagships, outlined in further detail in this plan, are as follows: Eastern Cape Vision 2030 Provincial Development Plan | A future we can build i ILIMA LABANTU ILIMA LABANTU is an agricultural development initiative that aims to revive the rural economy and encourage other areas of development in the province. The Eastern Cape is endowed with significant natural resources that can be used to help address its food security needs, expand its capacity to provide jobs, raise income levels and trigger development in allied industries and other sectors. ILIMA LABANTU aims to mobilise communities and a range of departments and entities across government to act in a focused, integrated and coordinated manner on various elements of the programme: Research and development (R&D) institutions to develop appropriate technology to support production and related activities at various levels of the