1. Progress Report on the Upgrading Of Informal Settlements Programme Portfolio Committee On Human Settlements 24 October 2017

2. Contents Background Distribution of informal settlements in SA
Number of households in informal settlements
UISP performance assessment
Outcome 8 Delivery Agreement
National Upgrading Support Programme (NUSP)
Feasibility Studies of informal settlements
MTSF Delivery
Questions/Issues for scaling up delivery
Annexure: Example of feasibility study and upgrading plan

6. UISP Finding of Performance Assessments
Informal Settlement Growth in 1994 to in 2010
There were few examples of good practice, and …
There was little awareness of programme and use of the most appropriate subsidies and UISP at sub-national level
Sectoral coordination was found to be weak
Implementation – emphasis was more on ‘eradicate’ rather than ‘upgrade’, emphasis on top structures
No real information on communities, & how upgrading can strengthen livelihood strategies
Little community-based participation
Low density layouts & usually located at urban peripheries with minimal community participation
Increase in service delivery protests and often violent
Service levels often inappropriate, entail high future costs to municipalities

7. Outcome 8 Delivery Agreement/MTSF Targets
Target : households in well-located informal settlements to receive access to basic services and secure tenure
Achievement : through HSDG and USDG funding
Target: households in informal settlement upgraded to Phase 2 services (Communal)

8. National Upgrading Support Programme (NUSP) Objectives
Promote incremental upgrading as a major complementary housing programme, in line with Part 3 of Code (Where possible, in-situ)
Support Delivery Agreement / MTSF targets to improve basic infrastructure, services and land tenure for informal settlement households
Improve programmatic approach to upgrading, strengthening coordination with other sectors and partners
Strengthen capacity of government and professional practitioners to implement community-based incremental upgrading

9. NUSP Programme Offerings
Provision of Technical Assistance to provinces and municipalities for the development and implementation of upgrading programmes and plans
Capacity Building and Training to practitioners and community members in the field of informal settlement upgrading
Knowledge Services and Information dissemination to the upgrading community of practice
Housing Development Agency (HDA) activities on upgrading in Mining Towns are coordinated by the NDHS/NUSP
City Support Programme Partnership with Treasury in Metros

10. Feasibility Guideline
Category A: Imminent Full Upgrading (Rapid Formalisation, full services)
Category B 1: Interim basic services (Provision of interim services leading to eventual formalisation)
Category B 2: Emergency basic services (Provision of emergency basic services BUT leading to eventual relocation)
Category C: Rapid relocation to a site which is already available or imminently available

11. NUSP Performance Municipalities: 92
Assessments/Feasibility studies: 1200+
Upgrading Plans: 850+
Some 230 plans and 350 feasibility studies in process to be completed in 2017/18
(Little evidence of NUSP plans in Annual Provincial Business Plans and Built Environment Performance Plans in Municipality)

12. Settlement Information
Cabinet requested more detailed information on settlements
A Technical Minmec Workshop held 19/20 September 2016 to agree on reporting within Provinces and Metropolitan Municipalities
Provincial Coordinating Committees established
Template developed and approved and information to be submitted by Oct 2016
Informal settlement workshop on 20 Oct 2017 as a pre-summit workshop to ensure policy and related matters are attended to as part if the policy development process

13. Settlement Information
Limpopo: 80 settlements with fairly good information
KZN: 116 settlements are part of the Slums Clearance project in Ethekwini and a service provider has been appointed to undertake verification and categorization
Eastern Cape : 249 settlements – fairly good information
Free State: 149 settlements – Gaps in Mangaung being addressed
Mpumalanga: 208 settlements and verification and categorization exercise being undertaken
Northern Cape: 104 settlements. Good information
Western Cape: 122 settlements excluding Metro with good information.
NW: No information and verification and categorization exercise being undertaken
Gauteng: Generally poor information – Sedibeng 36; Tshwane 118; West Rand 105; Ekurhuleni 117 and verification and categorization exercise being undertaken

14. REMAINING NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS
MTSF STATUS: UPGRADING OF INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS: 30 JUNE 2017 Annexure B
PROVINCE
TARGET
ACTUAL DELIVERY
REMAINING NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS
MTSF
Annual
2014/15 to 2016/17
2017/18
Total
Eastern Cape
16 005
3 201
32 916
2079
34 995
Buffalo City
18 980
3 796
1 561
17 419
NMMM
14 810
2 962
6 236
8 574
Free State
36 900
7 380
12 614
238
12 852
24 048
Mangaung
12 480
2 496
4 811
7 669
Gauteng
41 275
8 255
23 758
24 288
16 987
City of JHB
95 225
19 045
15 629
79 596
City of Tshwane
62 515
12 503
7 733
54 782
Ekurhuleni
83 195
16 639
3 660
79 535
KwaZulu-Natal
23 870
4 774
17 300
538
17 838
6 032
Ethekwini
56 905
11 381
75 348
Limpopo
28 260
5 652
5 025
634
6 138
22 122
Mpumalanga
44 785
8 957
21 244
2196
21 296
23 489
Northern Cape
15 185
3 037
5 784
9 401
North West
86 255
17 251
16 821
17 106
69 149
Western Cape
29 970
5 994
21 948 62
22 023
7 947
COCT
83 390
16 678
11 348
72 042
5 747

15. USDG: SHARED SERVICES (WATER POINT AND SANITATION POINTS)
METRO
NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS BENEFITTING
2014/15
2015/16
2016/17
2017/18
TOTAL
BUFFALO CITY
1 400
496
1 000
N/A
2 896
NELSON MANDELA BAY
24 876
23 835
22 700
71 411
MANGAUNG
31 306
30 119
27 798
89 223
CITY OF JOHANNESBURG
5 245
2 841
8 086
CITY OF TSHWANE
2 072
1 874
210
4 156
EKURHULENI
4 935
10 641
18 287
33 863
ETHEKWINI
8 000
9 000
10 000
27 000
CITY OF CAPE TOWN
21 175
22 420
10 830
54 455
99 009
90 825

16. Challenges
Ability to achieve the MTSF Target and correctness of reporting
Reduction in settlements/households and densification consequences
NUSP Plans not reflected in Provincial Business Plans and BEPP
Implementation pipeline for informal settlements
Improving prioritisation and budget allocation for the Programme
Improving information management and reporting
Consolidation of Capacity Support and Application

17. Thank You

18. Feasibility Studies
FEASABILITY STUDIES: INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS ARE ASSESSED AND CATEGORSIED INTO THE FOLLWING FOUR CATEGORIES
A- Full upgrade in terms of services, top structures and tenure is appropriate, affordable, and viable. Informal settlement which upgrading can take place in the short term.
B1- Interim basic services as a precursor to an eventual full upgrade. These settlements are those which are viable for full upgrading in longer term but where it is not imminent.
B2- This refers to settlements where long term upgrading is not appropriate or viable but relocation is not urgent or possible.
C- Informal settlements which face significant risks (health, environmental or any associated harmful situations) in their current location.

19. Informal Settlement In Madibeng Local Municipality
Wawiel Ext 1 & 2
Propose interventions
Category B2/C
IMMEDIATE INTERVENTIONS:
Water – Provide additional temporary storage
tanks to be filled daily (4 tanks in total)
− Sewer – Private pit latrines in place (LLOS),
provide communal pit latrines / portable toilets
− Refuse – provide skips / provide regular service
INTERMEDIATE
Water – provide communal stand pipes
(±3 points)
− Sewer – Provide communal ablution facilities
− Roads – Provide access roads for emergency
vehicles
− Electricity – Provide highmast lighting
CLEAR AREA OF DEVELOPMENT DUE TO FLOODLINE

20. Wawiel Ext 1& 2: Proposed Infrastructure Interventions

21. Proposed Upgrading Plan

22. Housing Typologies Tenements Row houses UNIT SIZE: Varies
UNIT SIZE: +/- 20 – 30 m²
ERF SIZE: +/- 40 – 45 m²
UNIT SIZE: Varies
ERF SIZE: +/- 200 – 400 m²