1 Welcome… MUNICIPAL BAROMETER “Empowering municipal planning, governance, oversight & benchmarking through easily accessible and reliable Local Level Data” Seana Nkhahle / Nomusa Ngwenya April 2013

Employer Body Act as an employer body representing all municipal members and, by agreement, associate members. The Voice of Local Government Support and advise our members on a range of issues to assist effective execution of their mandate. Build the capacity of the municipality as an institution as well as leadership and technical capacity of both Councillors and Officials. Lobby, advocate, protect and represent the interest of local government at relevant structures and platforms. Transform local government to enable it to fulfil its development al mandate. SALGA Mandate Lobby, Advocate & Represent Support & Advice Capacity Building Build the profile and image of local government within South Africa as well as outside the country. Strategic Profiling Serve as the main hub of local government knowledge and intelligence and to facilitate peer learning within the sector Knowledge & Information Sharing The Voice of Local Government SALGA MANDATE 2

3 Peer Learning (Networks / Events) Knowledge Hub (Portal/Resource Centre) Research, Benchmarking & Performance Reviews The effective transformation of SALGA into a learning / knowledge organisation requires each portfolio to contribute to each of the three pillars

Problem Statement The Municipal Barometer was established in response to the following challenges: limited availability of local level data. limited access to data that is currently available various institutions provide data, however, their activities are often fragmented and uncoordinated huge costs that municipalities pay to get data The Municipal Barometer is an initiative of South African Local Government Association (SALGA) in partnership with Statistics South Africa (Statssa), South African Cities, Network (SACN), Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB), Centre For Municipal Research, (CMRA), Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), 4

OBJECTIVES The Municipal Barometer is anchored on a Local Data Partnership which is aimed at : Improving municipal governance and performance by improved planning, oversight, benchmarking and peer learning Identifying and addressing municipal data needs at minimal costs; Making local level data available to municipalities and their stakeholders; Managing access to data through a single comprehensive yet simple web- based portal; and Building the capacity of municipalities to locate, access, interpret and utilize data for planning, budgeting and governance processes. 5

INDICATORS The following broad outcome indicator themes are proposed: 1.Demographic trends 2.Service delivery 3.Social Development 4.Economic growth and development 5.Environment 6.Municipal finances 7.Good governance and accountability 8.Coherent municipal planning 9.Municipal capacity, (Capacity Building / Human Resources Management / Labour Relations) 6

SALGA WEBSITE: KNOWLEDGE HUB 7

THE WEB-PORTAL 8

DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS 9

SERVICE DELIVERY WATER 10

SERVICE DELIVERY SANITATION 11

SERVICE DELIVERY ENERGY 12

SERVICE DELIVERY REFUSE REMOVAL 13

SERVICE DELIVERY ROADS 14

SERVICE DELIVERY TRANSPORT 15

SOCIAL SERVICES HEALTH 16

SOCIAL SERVICES HOUSING 17

SOCIAL SERVICES EDUCATION 18

SOCIAL SERVICES EDUCATION 19

SOCIAL SERVICES SAFETY & SECURITY 20

SOCIAL SERVICES LIBRARIES & CEMETERIES 21

SOCIAL SERVICES PARKS, SPORTS & RECREATION 22

SOCIAL SERVICES DISASTER MANAGEMENT 23

ECONOMIC GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT 24

ECONOMIC GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT 25

ENVIRONMENT 26 State of municipal environment

MUNICIPAL FINANCE 27

MUNICIPAL FINANCE 28

MUNICIPAL FINANCE 29

GOOD GOVERNANCE & ACCOUNTABILITY 30

GOOD GOVERNANCE & ACCOUNTABILITY 31

GOOD GOVERNANCE & ACCOUNTABILITY 32

COHERENT MUNICIPAL PLANNING 33

MUNICIPAL CAPACITY, LABOUR AND HR 34

MUNICIPAL CAPACITY, LABOUR AND HR 35

THANK YOU THE END 36