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THE ETHEKWINI DEVELOPMENT PATH AT A GLANCE CAN BE DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS.
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1997
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Transitional local government Transitional local government
1994- 2000
1994- 1998
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The municipality scaled up its service delivery based largely on the energy derived from the ushering in of a new democratic dispensation
1998
2000
2000- 2001
2008
2010
2015 2019
Quality of Life Study that influenced the delivery of services needs to be seen in context of sustainability
Methodology of outcome based planning
Adoption of the long-term development framework
Development of the long-term development framework
The city partnered with an international organization called Sustainable Cities Initiative Adoption of Imagine Durban Long Term Development Framework
City Planning Commission Review of Strategic Focus for the City
District Development Model Pilot
During the period 2008-2009 the city began an exercise to review its LTDF using the Sustainable Cities Initiative methodology which resulted in the commonly known Imagine Durban Long Term Development Plan. Two key features of the process were
• firstly, the methodology was grounded in sustainable development theory,
• secondly the process to develop the plan and extract value was based on its extensive active public participation process.
Effectively the Imagine Durban Plan consolidated a vision of the city with associated timeframes, roles and responsibilities, as well as targets over a 50-year sustainable development path.
The Imagine Durban Plan is currently under review and the municipality has a Municipal Planning Commission which will assist in identifying key development sectors and the associated development actions that would be required to achieve the municipal vision.
The original LTDF from 94-2008 revolved around embedding the concept of sustainable development much like the global
discussions around sustainable development and the concept of sustainable development. From 2009-2014, the global discourse shifted towards Green Growth Transition as well as the Green Economy and at the same time Imagine Durban Plan, one begins to see elements of the secular economy, recycling and opportunities around renewable energies, and so forth. As we move post-2015 and the MDGs we begin to see the global discourse characterized by various agendas coming together to deliver a more sustainable development path. It was a coming together of the global agendas to achieve sustainability as opposed to each of the agendas working in silos to achieve the sustainability outcomes.
The transition of the discourse which was initially as defined in the Brundtland Report that referred to economic social and environmental, that has changed with the New Urban Agenda which now talks to economic (prosperity), social (people), human (rights) and environmental (planet) but the issue of human rights coming through to the fore itself. The New Urban Agenda talks about the right to the city. It also talks about right to water, right to housing and so forth. It moves away from the traditional three circle model to a 4-circle model.
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