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Although a project as big as the iSLP deserves a major investment in capacity building it is clearly must be applied very selectively. The policy adopted has contained three ingredients:
- Every housing beneficiary (i.e. the beneficiaries of 20 000 units to date - probably about 40 000 people) are personally interviewed and informed about their rights and options regarding housing.
- The community representatives who are members of Project Committees are given an education in many facets of the development process through their practical involvement in all kinds of issues through the whole life of the project. It is the function of the facilitator within each Project Committee to optimise the transfer of knowledge in both directions between the community representatives and the technical consultants.
- The application of a substantial "Capacity Building" budget, amounting to R10 million. Consideration was given to the establishment of a separate legal entity, e.g. a Trust or Foundation, to manage the funds, but it was decided that rather than set up a new infrastructure with attendant costs the budget should be allocated to the Provincial Departments and local authorities that are involved in the iSLP, with a view to their creating capacity building programmes to complement or support their existing iSLP activities.
As a result funds were reserved for the municipalities of Cape Town and Tygerberg and to the Provincial departments of Health, Education, Social Services, Works and Economic Affairs. Access to these funds was conditional upon
(a) The agency demonstrating that it has expended, or is committed to expending, a matching amount on capacity building within the iSLP project area; and
(b) The submission of a comprehensive business plan to the iSLP Capacity Building Committee (on which these agencies are represented), which would then make recommendations to the Provincial Chief Director: Housing, who was authorised to approve the disbursement of funds.
To date the following capacity building projects have been approved:
| Nature
of Project |
Agency |
SA
Rands |
| A.
Provincial Government programmes |
| Foundational
capacity training for School Governing
Bodies (SGB’s) for the members to know
their roles and functions |
Education |
63,000 |
| Financial
record keeping for SGB’s |
Education |
62,000 |
| Basic
training needs analysis for principals of
community Early Childhood Development (ECD)
Centres |
Education |
50,000 |
| Basic
financial record keeping for principals of
community ECD centres |
Education |
146,062 |
| ABET
(Adult Basic Education and Training)
governing body training |
Education |
100,000 |
| Representative
Councils of Learners (RCL’s) training
learners to understand roles and
responsibilities of serving on the council,
conflict management and time management |
Education |
100,000 |
| Peace
education and formation of peace clubs in
high schools |
Social
Services |
184,000 |
| Establishment
of network of nutritional services in
Southern Delft |
Health |
80,700 |
| Training
of volunteers to become home based care
givers |
Health |
176,819 |
| Training
of youth and the disabled to be IT
technicians |
Economic
Affairs |
650,000 |
| Establishment
of Buildsmart to assist community builders
-and subsequent closure |
Works |
165,822 |
| Training
of community health workers |
Health |
50,000 |
| Promotion
of health in homes and communities |
Health |
352,480 |
| Training
of Emergency Medical Services volunteers |
Health |
88,000 |
| Training of
pre-school teachers |
Education |
128,000 |
| Extension
of Basic
financial record keeping for principals of
community ECD centres |
Education |
95,000 |
| Extension
of foundational capacity building for School
Governing Bodies |
Education |
95,000 |
| Extension
of Representative Council of Learners
programme |
Education |
125,000 |
| Empowerment
of emerging contractors |
Works |
259,886 |
| Extension
of peace education programme |
Social
Services |
274,500 |
| Training
for National Diploma in Emergency
Medical Care |
Health |
300,000 |
| Training
of School Governing Bodies and Caretakers |
Education |
125,150 |
| Training
emerging contractors in tendering procedures |
Works |
117,420 |
| Job
creation programme - Philani Flagship |
Social
Services |
46,258 |
| B.
Local Government programmes |
| Establishment
of community structures in the greenfields
development of S. Delft |
Tygerberg |
100,000 |
| Home
ownership campaign - S. Delft |
Tygerberg |
300,000 |
| Pamphlet
on the resale of houses |
Tygerberg |
7,850 |
| Team
building retreat for community structure |
Tygerberg |
12,100 |
| Formation
of sports structures |
Cape Town |
169,360 |
| Leadership
training for volunteers in the "Come
and Play" programme |
Cape Town |
470,700 |
| Training
volunteers to disseminate information linked
to the TB/HIV Pilot Project in Langa |
Cape Town |
224,945 |
| Training
for SBDC Hive tenants in business and
financial management |
Cape
Town |
184,000 |
| Arts
and Culture Baseline survey - to establish
the needs in the community |
Cape
Town |
23,000 |
| Residents
education in council services |
Cape
Town |
735,300 |
| Pamphlet
on the resale of houses |
Cape
Town |
21,641 |
| Masimanyane
technical support for the construction of
houses |
Cape
Town |
24,750 |
| Masimanyane
Corobrick training |
Cape Town |
20,000 |
| People’s
Housing Process - skills training to build
houses |
Cape
Town |
21,660 |
| Babies
need books - a project to introduce infants
to books, encourage library usage and offer
literacy programmes for parents |
Cape
Town |
645,500 |
| Management
of community halls - involvement of the
community in managing and use of halls |
Cape
Town |
500,500 |
| Water
Safety - empowering people with swimming and
life saving skills and training of trainers
to impart these skills to schools in the
community |
Cape
Town |
780,000 |
| Assisting
the Delft South community to establish an
integrated dispute resolution service |
Tygerberg |
72,960 |
| Arts and Culture
baseline survey |
Cape Town |
7,800 |
| Assisting
community based organisations to conduct a
needs assessment |
Cape Town |
7,500 |
| Extension
of needs assessment workshop |
Cape Town |
30,000 |
| Extending
the skills of volunteers in the "Come
and Play" programme |
Cape Town |
12,500 |
| Skills
and business training |
City of
Cape Town |
491,717 |
| Facilitating
access for small business to export markets
through websites and facilitation of
associated services |
City of
Cape Town |
679,400 |
| Training
in leathercraft and sewing skills |
Tygerberg |
46,258 |
| Delft
Central Home Ownership Campaign |
Tygerberg |
100,000 |
| Leadership
training for volunteers in the Delft South "Come
and Play" programme |
City of
Cape Town |
375,000 |
| Organisation
and development training for Community-Based
Organisations |
City of
Cape Town |
150,000 |
| Total:
Approved Programme Budgets |
R10,001,799 |
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