1. Reducing local Red Tape for a better local business climate
Intervention Strategy in South Africa
15 minutes
Shawn Cunningham
GTZ BDS/LED Project, South Africa

2. Content Systemic Approach – Context, Vision, Intervention
LRTR Facilitation Model
Intervention Levels – Demand, Supply, Support

3. Context – Red Tape Reduction in South Africa
Provincial & National Government
SBP – survey on the cost of red tape
DPLG – investigating impact of municipal regulations
DTI – investigating regulatory impact on SMMEs …
International Donors ? ?
Especially national level is busy with assessments, studies, investigations – See examples - Activities of most Donors correspond to this
These are important but there is no activity/outreach to the local level
Example for “Question Marks”: no response to tender in Cape Town!
Private Sector LED Services
Local & District Government ?

4. Desired End State Provincial & National Government
Guidelines, Implementation, Support, Training
Guidelines
Feedback, Lessons Learnt
Demand, Feedback, Lessons Learnt
Desired end state of our work is a functioning system of demand, supply and support of LRTR services in SA – systemic approach
Private Sector LED Services
Local & District Government
Impact oriented concepts, Training
Demand

5. Intervention Provincial & National Government Advocacy GTZ LED
Other Donors
Coordination
Pilots
Networking
Networking
Concepts
Capacity Building
SYSTEMIC Intervention Strategy – Follow opportunity based approach
Private Sector LED Services
Local & District Government
Demand & Supply Stimulation

6. Intervention Activities
Concept Development – LRTR Facilitation Module
Institutionalized Public-Private Dialogue (PPD)
Facilitation - process and action orientation
LED Focus
Main cornerstones of the module

7. LRTR Facilitation Cycle
Exit
Entry point
4. Evaluation Phase
Selecting the host organisation and process focus
Evaluation
Measures to sustain the Process
Terms of Reference
1. Contract, Scoping Phase
3. Institutionalisation Phase
Key-stakeholdertraining
Consultation and Implementation
Action Research & Mobilisation
Facilitation Cycle – it’s simply a facilitated process
Might add some Middelburg examples
Circles inside main circle mean that in systemic change, one can’t thoroughly plan a process … e.g. where PPD is distorted the contract phase of bringing public and private stakeholders together might be much more important and time consuming than rest.
Focus Workshops, additional Research
Red Tape Issue identification, Analysis and selection of Champions
2. Assessment Phase

8. Desired End State Provincial & National Government
Guidelines, Implementation, Support, Training
Guidelines
Feedback, Lessons Learnt
Demand, Feedback, Lessons Learnt
Desired end state of our work is a functioning system of demand, supply and support of LRTR services in SA – systemic approach
Private Sector LED Services
Local & District Government
Impact oriented concepts, Training
Demand

9. Intervention Activities
Demand – Local & District Government Trainings
Cooperation with InWEnt
Trainer & Participants Handbook on “Cutting Red Tape”
Local level trainings from June 06 onwards

10. Intervention Activities
Supply - LED consultant & facilitator market
Red Tape Reduction as a conceptual add-on to LED
Facilitator handbook “Local Red Tape Reduction”
SA Resource Handbook on Red Tape
First of a series of trainings in September 06

11. Intervention Activities
Support – Advocacy on National Level
DPLG – national partner
Advocacy – e.g. SALGA
Cooperation with other Donors – EU
LED Network
Publications
EU funds complement our activities
Publications: first responses to Delivery Magazine Article

12. Lessons Learnt
Currently very few Service Providers and hardly National Level Support!
Facilitation model works well
Strong local ownership is a precondition
Follow-up by the facilitator is essential
Issues ‘develop’ dynamically and are relevant to LED!

13. Thank you for your attention!
GTZ BDS/LED Project, South Africa
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14. Contract and Scoping Phase
Stakeholder Mapping
History and state of the PPD?
Select process hosts
Sectoral focus, general or specific?
Research & Mobilisation
Contracting
Training
“Trainer & Participants Handbook on “Cutting Red Tape”

15. Assessment Phase Single- or multi issue workshops? Filter
Regulation, procedure, services, interface
Public, private, or public & private
Local control
LED relevance
Implementation feasibility (3 criteria)
Define problem
mapping, problem tree,
Design solution
Goal tree
Champions

16. Institutionalization Phase
Assistance to champions in implementation
Possibly further workshop facilitation
Consultative process
Bring in experts
Follow-up meetings
Interim results
How to (formally) institutionalize red tape reduction?
Report-back meeting
Handing-over
Media

17. Evaluation Phase Demand orientation
activities and outputs are defined in the process
Outcome is defined, though
Identify Monitoring and Evaluation criteria throughout the process
Existing procedure timeframes and costs, planned efficiency gains
Envisaged institutionalization mechanism
Exit or continuation?