SPAID: MID YEAR UPDATE: 2010

Exciting progress in 2010
The SPAID programme continues to see good progress with some exciting new developments occurring in the first six months of this year. Set out below is an overview of the key highlights of the last six months and plans for the remainder of 2010.

The Infrastructure Dialogues project
The Infrastructure Dialogues comprises
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Previous Dialogues

Road Infrastructure

If sustainable growth and developmental outcomes are to be attained the efficiency of South Africa’s economy needs to be significantly improved. Because a key ingredient of an efficient economy is good, reliable connectivity, this month’s dialogue addresses an element of infrastructure crucial to ensure effective connectivity for both freight/goods and people.

INPUT DOCUMENTS

Source Documents

Address at the
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Urban Regeneration

Urban regeneration has been a recurrent theme of urban development discourse in South Africa for many years. Thus inner cities in many parts of the country have become the focus of dedicated strategies aimed at reversing their decline. Special institutional structures have been created within municipalities to aid in this task for example the
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Infrastructure Sector Procurement

In his 2010 State of the Nation Address, the President reiterated the importance of the national infrastructure investment programme:
“Underpinning our strategy for ecomomic recovery and growth, is our capital investment programme.  Over the next three years government will spend R846 billion on public infrastructure”.
A large portion of this spend will be in
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Climate Change and the effect on Municipal Infrastructure

The challenges Municipalities face in adaptation and mitigation of the effects of climate change on their Infrastructure.
Governments from around the world met in December to discuss policy and the way forward in dealing with the effects of Climate Change (Conference of the Parties -15 of the United Nations Convention on Climate
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Future Dialogues

The Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Existing Municipal Infrastructure

Protests over poor public service delivery have soared this year. While service delivery remains a critical issue an equally critical issue is the increasing proportion of deteriorating infrastructure, often resulting in a poor and often unacceptable quality of services.
Protests over poor public service delivery have soared this year. While service delivery remains a critical
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Universal Household Access to Basic Services

Quantifying the Challenge and Monitoring Progress.
Protests over poor public service delivery have soared this year. While service delivery remains a critical issue an equally critical issue is the increasing proportion of deteriorating infrastructure, often resulting in a poor and often unacceptable quality of services.
Protests over poor public service delivery have soared this year. While
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The Economic Impact of the Infrastructure Stimulus Package

What will the R860 billion investment in infrastructure deliver in short and longer term economic multipliers.
Protests over poor public service delivery have soared this year. While service delivery remains a critical issue an equally critical issue is the increasing proportion of deteriorating infrastructure, often resulting in a poor and
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The Infrastructure Dialogues are hosted by the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), the Business Trust Support Programme for Accelerated Infrastructure Development (SPAID) and the South African Cities Network (SACN).