Social Mobilisation

Goal

Support communities of development practice to engage effectively in policy formulation, implementation and development practice.

Programme Purpose

The purpose of this programme is to make sure that there is proper consultation of stakeholders in the province on all issues of development and that stakeholder are adequately equipped to effectively participate in issues of policy development.

The Programme

Social Mobilisation Programme is a programme that serves to provide technical support to ECSECC stakeholders in the area of policy development and strategic planning. The programme plays a liaison role between ECSECC and its core constituencies, government, organised labour, business, community structures and institutional of higher learning and any other organisations contributing to policy dialogue and socio-economic development.

The current environment offers great scope for constructive public debate and learning around South Africa’s development agenda. There appears to be renewed emphasis on the involvement of grass roots structures and mass formations in the development process. There is also greater awareness and recognition of the fact that mere skills and technical capacity building in state structures will not deliver a transformed public sector. Thus there is a need for more nuanced approaches to capacity development and practical implementation of such approaches.

The programme face growing demand for assistance in building capacity, and continuous demand for the kind of development planning assistance traditionally provided by ECSECC. State structures, organised labour and civil society formations are likely to continue to request such support from ECSECC. ECSECC will also pay attention to providing support to organised business to enable it make a contribution to a transformative development agenda.