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Operations overview - South Africa Operations<br />

“. . . the Division also<br />

helps to alleviate poverty<br />

by creating job<br />

opportunities . . . ”<br />

Luther Mashaba<br />

Group Executive<br />

Strategic overview<br />

Nature of business<br />

The South Africa Operations Division supports the<br />

development of socio-economic infrastructure by providing<br />

financial and non-financial offerings to public sector<br />

intermediaries at the municipal and provincial levels. Financial<br />

support includes the use of various instruments, such as<br />

debt and grants, whereas non-financial offerings encompass<br />

project support, advice and development facilitation.<br />

These offerings are targeted at provincial departments,<br />

municipalities, utilities and a range of other entities, including<br />

educational institutions, to assist them in accelerating<br />

service delivery to communities.<br />

The objective of this support is to achieve social transformation<br />

and community upliftment by eradicating infrastructure<br />

backlogs, promoting economic development and growth,<br />

and developing human resources. The Division accomplishes<br />

this mainly by targeting sectors that are national, provincial<br />

or local priorities and have the greatest development needs,<br />

such as health, education, water and sanitation, human<br />

settlements, energy, road transportation and various forms of<br />

municipal infrastructure.<br />

Through its development support, the Division also helps<br />

to alleviate poverty by creating job opportunities, mainly<br />

during the construction of the infrastructure but also over its<br />

lifespan. In addition, by providing the infrastructure<br />

required for service delivery, the programmes and<br />

projects supported by the Division increase the number<br />

of households with access to basic services.<br />

The Division also addresses market failure and institutional<br />

weaknesses within the intermediaries. It does so by<br />

packaging its products and services in a holistic, integrated<br />

and collaborative way, with the assistance of other divisions<br />

of the Bank and external development partners in its value<br />

chain. The DBSA Development Fund contributes resources<br />

towards capacity building and implementation capacity,<br />

whereas the Development Planning Division provides market<br />

information and development planning interventions.<br />

Delivery structure<br />

The Division is structured into clusters of provinces.<br />

This serves to focus the support the Division provides to<br />

meet the development needs of its clients, which differ from<br />

province to province in both nature and level of complexity.<br />

The Division has three client-facing clusters, through which<br />

it serves clients throughout South Africa by developing,<br />

packaging, financing and managing infrastructure projects.<br />

This differentiation of clients allows for the delivery of tailormade<br />

products and services according to specific community<br />

needs and functional specialisation. A central portfolio<br />

management cluster supports the frontline clusters by<br />

coordinating portfolio planning, risk monitoring and reporting<br />

in the Division.<br />

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DBSA | <strong>ANNUAL</strong> REPORT 2010/11

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