PGDP

Provincial Growth and Development Plan (PGDP) 

The Provincial Growth and Development Plan (2004-2014) was finalised in 2004 with twenty seven flagship programmes identified for implementation over the 2004-2007 MTEF. Some three years later there are mixed reports about the efficiency and efficacy of these various programmes, a number of significant policy and other shifts have taken place which potentially impact on the overall policy implications  and programmatic mix of the PGDP and there are some  overall co-ordination, monitoring and evlaution concerns relating to the general implmentation of the PGDP. The timing for a Strategic Review of the PGDP could thus not have been better.

The PGDP review process has been broken up into a number of working groups which follow the six strategic objectives of the PGDP. An additional working group for Resourcing Commmunication and Monitoring and Evaluation has also been created. The working groups are as follows:

·        Working group 1: Systematic poverty eradication through a holistic integrated and multidimensional approach to pro poor programming;  

·        Working group 2: Transformation of the Agrarian economy and strengthening of household food security;        

·        Working group 3: Manufacturing diversification and Tourism potential;  

·        Working group 4:  Human resource development;  

·         Working group 5: Infrastructure development;    

·        Working group 6: Public Sector and Insitutional Transformation  

·        Working group 7: Resourcing, Communication and Monitoring and Evaluation

The objectives of the PGDP assessment are as follows:

·         1)Review the institutional arrangements, implementation and monitoring and evaluation framework for the PGDP;  

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·         2)Assess the extent of alignment to the PGDP in provincial and local government;  

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·         3)Assess the performance of the PGDP and the PGDP programs to date  (programmatic efficiency);  

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·         4)To review the PGDP program mix for each of the six planks;  

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·         5)To ascertain the blockages and constraints that have hampered the delivery of PGDP programmes and develop mechanisms to address these;  

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·         6)To review national, provincial and local government policy developments and incorporate these into the PGDP. This will include the necessary institutional vehicles to implement;  

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·         7)Address some of the shortcomings in the PGDP which have emerged from national, provincial and local government’s (DGDS) assessment of the PGDP;  

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·         8)Develop revised priority programs for the 2008-2010 MTEF and the remainder of the PGDP period.

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Anticipated outputs (Deliverables)

The aim of this exercise is not to emerge with a ‘new PGDP’ but to update and enhance the existing document. Essentially the product will be three fold:  

1) A consolidated performance assessment report;

2) A revised and updated PGDP document;

3)A set of revised priority programs for the 2008-2010 MTEF and the remainder of the PGDP period.