ANNUAL REPORTS
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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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