RED TAPE REDUCTION GUIDELINES FOR RESOURCE POOR MUNICIPALITIES Free State Province Infrastructure and Economic Development Presentation on 24 Priority District Municipalities 25 March 2014

 Cabinet Unveils 12 Implementation plans (For Immediate Action)  Action Plan 6  24 DMs identified  Current Process  Wayforward

DEPT OBJECTIVES  Focus RTR on Resource Poor Rural Municipalities  Mobilise available economic development support through RTR  Foster Collaboration with Private Sector  Institutionalisation of RTR at Local Government Level

BACKGROUND  Cabinet Unveiled 12 Implementation Plans for Immediate Action  Action Plan 6 (Scaling up Rural Development Programmes  DRDLR and Presidency for Overseeing the Programme  24 Resource Poor DMs (18 million people)  High levels of Poverty; Service Constraints; high levels of Unemployment; Low levels of Economic Development

CURRENT PROCESSES  Provincial Workshops in all 9 provinces  Cogta has Adopted the Guidelines  Cogta and SALGA will monitor the Implementation

WAYFORWARD  Guidelines Implementation Championed by HOD  RTR Guidelines workshopped at LG level  Institutionalisation of the RTR

THE END