Addressing the infrastructure maintenance gap while creating employment and transferring skills: An innovative institutional model

Wall, Kevin

doi:10.1080/0376835x.2022.2090317

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“…(Not simply by EPWP -there are other ways which are arguably better.) Also, the potential for infrastructure tasks to create and nurture emergent microenterprises (Wall, 2022).…”

Section: Evolution Of the Municipal Model Since 1994mentioning

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The 1998 “‘mini-Constitution’ for local government”: A review of the assumptions of the White Paper on Local Government

Wall

2022

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Many South African municipalities suffer service-delivery problems that can usually be ascribed to inadequate management, skills, and budgets. The reasons for these, in turn, invariably include weak economic base, unwise spending of available funds, and difficulty in recruiting and retaining skilled staff. The White Paper on Local Government of 1998, to which Valli Moosa, the then Minister for Provincial Affairs and Constitutional Development, referred as “almost [being] regarded as a ‘mini-Constitution’ for local government”, together with the Municipal Demarcation Act of the same year, spelled out the framework in terms of which the local government system would be transformed. Municipalities, covering the entire country “wall-to-wall”, were thereafter established and powers and functions were assigned to them. After more than two decades, there can no longer be any doubt that many municipalities are, to a significant extent, failing in their primary duty of delivering services. The author sought to investigate to what extent this failing is due to flaws in the ‘mini-Constitution’. By examining aspects of the performance of municipalities, the article assesses key assumptions made by the drafters of the White Paper in respect of a number of key attributes for service delivery. These attributes include sufficient skills and funding, prudent budgeting and effective spending, good leadership, adequate systems and data, stability of the senior leadership, and the presence of trust and credibility. The article finds that many of the assumptions were flawed, with severe consequences for service delivery.

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“…(Not simply by EPWP -there are other ways which are arguably better.) Also, the potential for infrastructure tasks to create and nurture emergent microenterprises (Wall, 2022).…”

Section: Evolution Of the Municipal Model Since 1994mentioning

confidence: 99%

The 1998 “‘mini-Constitution’ for local government”: A review of the assumptions of the White Paper on Local Government

Wall

2022

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Employment generation potentials in the implementation of a rural drinking water supply program: evidence from India's Jal Jeevan Mission

Naik,

Singh,

Jas

2024

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Policymakers in India are finding it challenging to generate adequate employment to meet the requirements of the growing population. An avenue consistently used is to invest in large-scale public infrastructure projects. In 2019, the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) was launched with the aim of providing potable drinking water to every rural household in India. Underscoring the large investments in infrastructure development, the mission holds significant potential to create employment. The evidence base of studies assessing the effect of rural development programs on employment was weak. In this backdrop, we assessed the employment generation potentials of JJM at various phases of its implementation. We utilized secondary and scheme-level primary data across the states of India and used the input–output model and ratio method to assess employment prospects. Our results suggest that JJM has the potential to generate an average of 5.99 million person-years of direct and 22.25 million person-years of indirect employment during the construction phase, and 1.11 million person-years of additional direct employment annually during the maintenance phase. Our study highlights the spillover effects of public investments in the form of employment generation and indicates that the impact of JJM is likely to be substantial once the program is complete and operational

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Addressing the infrastructure maintenance gap while creating employment and transferring skills: An innovative institutional model

Cited by 2 publications

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The 1998 “‘mini-Constitution’ for local government”: A review of the assumptions of the White Paper on Local Government

The 1998 “‘mini-Constitution’ for local government”: A review of the assumptions of the White Paper on Local Government

Employment generation potentials in the implementation of a rural drinking water supply program: evidence from India's Jal Jeevan Mission

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