1 Economies of Regions Learning Network Meeting New directions for governance in Joburg- implications for regional economic planning? Day 2 21 June 2012 Stephen Narsoo City of Johannesburg

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3 Gauteng city-region Now 11.2 million people million people

4 Locating this work

5 Gauteng city-region background 2003 Gauteng Intergovernmental Forum meeting 2004 Gauteng EXCO adopts a formal resolution 2004 Premiers Coordinating Forum meeting of the 23 May 2005 Conceptual documents developed 2007 GCR Roadmap and Implementation Plan 2008 Politically went through hiatus but… Post 2008 Establishment of Gauteng City Region Observatory and Gauteng Academy 2011 OECD Territorial Review

6 Institutional Approaches to city-regions Metropolitan Reform New Regionalism Public Choice New Regionalism

7 GCR three strategic options Figure taken from: Three Strategic Options for Implementing GCR (Taken from GCR founding documents produced for the Office of the Premier 2006)

8 2nd wave of GCR metropolitan reforms Born out of crisis and not out of vision About poor performance and less about regional cooperation Change two tier system of local government, keep locals do away with districts Rumors of creating a Province of Metros Re-demarcation recent inclusion of rural municipality into Tshwane Technocrats argue no empirical basis for these decisions Amalgamation of smaller local into metros improve capacity challenges? How will province of bigger metro’s stand up against Gauteng province? Conflicts over new regionalism approach and 2 nd wave of metropolitan reforms?

9 New directions for governance “Activities to build support for the concept and implementation of the city-region at all levels of government, through building a spatial coalition and strategic networks between stakeholders. Particular attention will need to be paid when constructing the coalition to ensure that it is not dominated solely by the ‘voices of the powerful’. Participatory processes are essential in building a robust strategy and action plans. The active citizenry of Gauteng are a critical resource in the development of the city-region, not only as beneficiaries but also as a source of solutions to many of the challenges that will emerge.”

10 New directions for governance Jim Ellsworth when writing ‘Justice Stewardship: The Modern Sustainability Challenge highlights “Our traditional governance system was designed to serve society during the Industrial Age and continues to be guided by its original underlying assumptions, which support a linear problem solving process with distinct and separate roles for different players in mutually exclusive disciplines or sectors: The expert advises, the official decides, the sectors compete and the public picks up the costs and lives with the outcomes”

11 New directions for governance Empowered Participatory Governance (EPG) Model Practical Orientation Bottom Up Participation Deliberative Solution Generation EPG

12 Participatory Institutionalization of Joburg StagesParticipatory EntityRole Stage 1: BasicWard council  Representative democracy  Deepen civic education  Raise basic needs issues  Mass mobilization  Monitor urban management eg: building inspections etc Stage 2: IntermediaryNeighbourhood Council  Building capacity for neighbourhood planning through community economic development plans  Develop neighbourhood budgets for plans  Monitor and evaluate progress and performance against plans  Deliberate on regional planning issues

13 Stage 3: RegionalRegional Neighbourhood Council Association (RNCA)  Elevate neighbourhood citizen issues to regional GCR forums  Building technical capacity to engage on regional issues  Inform functional technical plans and lobby for citizen agenda  Promote civil society organization around regional planning Participatory Institutionalization of Joburg