This month’s Infrastructure Dialogue will focus on Municipal Water Services. Water supply services in South Africa has seen significant achievements. Prior to 1994, only 62% of households had access to basic water services (DWA). The first non racial democratic government of 1994 introduced fresh thinking and new energy into water management. Water was defined as
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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. Specifically, this month’s dialogue
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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
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Participants gathered at the monthly Infrastructure Dialogues series at the Development Bank of Southern Africa agreed that while public infrastructure is important, the management of that infrastructure by the local authority was perhaps even more important, and should be built into plans at the initial stages. The discussion centred on the role of public infrastructure
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The South African Cities Network (SACN) has just commissioned a study that looks into ways municipalities and sub-national entities within the Southern African region can harness financial resources to fund infrastructure development. This is borne out of the fact that Africa’s infrastructure deficit is large, growing and needs financing to close the existing substantial gaps.
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