(AsgiSA) Annual Report 2008 - South African Government Information
(AsgiSA) Annual Report 2008 - South African Government Information
(AsgiSA) Annual Report 2008 - South African Government Information
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Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for <strong>South</strong> Africa<br />
ANNUAL REPORT<br />
<strong>2008</strong><br />
Phase Two of the EPWP lends support to the DBSA (<strong>2008</strong>) Infrastructure Barometer analysis<br />
which, in modelling the macroeconomic impact of national infrastructure expenditure, concluded<br />
that:<br />
a) infrastructure was important for growth and poverty<br />
b) the quantum of financial resources allocated to infrastructure was not proportional to its<br />
benefits for growth and poverty<br />
c) poverty was impacted on more significantly by increasing the employment levels associated<br />
with such infrastructure delivery.<br />
5.3 2009/10 Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for <strong>South</strong> Africa<br />
infrastructure priorities<br />
2009/10 infrastructure priorities should centre around four thematic areas: planning and<br />
co-ordination, improving operational efficiencies of existing infrastructure, ensuring infrastructure<br />
projects are completed on time and within budget and leveraging infrastructure<br />
investment to maximise backward economic linkages and the employment potential of the<br />
projects.<br />
5.3.1 Infrastructure planning and co-ordination<br />
In 2007, Cabinet tasked the Economic Cluster to consult entities across government and to<br />
extract an integrated infrastructure plan (IIP) and investment framework. The departments<br />
of transport and of water affairs and forestry were tasked with this and, over the past 18<br />
months, came to the following conclusions:<br />
• institutional structures to support integrated planning do not yet exist<br />
• communication and information sharing in its broadest sense has been found to be the<br />
single biggest impediment to government achieving integration in planning<br />
• the lack of spatial platforms and data-sets to complement sector plans has proven to be a<br />
continuing shortcoming in the execution of the integrated planning process<br />
• concerns regarding the commercial sensitivity of infrastructure plans, particularly for stateowned<br />
enterprises (SOEs) has led to difficulties in sourcing vital information for the IIP.<br />
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