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THEREAFTER THE CITY ALIGNED THE SDGs TO THE CAPITAL BUDGET TO ASCERTAIN THE SPEND PER GOAL OVER THE MUNICIPAL FINANCIAL YEARS.
4E+09 3,5E+09 3E+09 2,5E+09 2E+09 1,5E+09 1E+09 500000000 0
Budget Spend by SDG Goal
2 3 4 6 7 8 9 11 13 15 16 17 2017/18 Capital Budget 2018/19 Capital Budget 2019/20 Capital Budget 2020/21 Capital Budget
The largest capital expenditure over the four financial years has been in SDG 11, followed by SDG 6 and SDG 16. The expenditure on SDG 6 and 11 respectively and the associated indicators are reflective of city’s role and responsibilities in delivering services. Expenditure on SDG 16 reflects the municipality’s commitment to good governance and safer cities.
MONITORING, REPORTING AND EVALUATION
In Chapter 3 the city provides insight into the efforts to achieve alignment of the City Strategy and the SDG, this effort largely centres around planning for alignment and implementation and building the necessary awareness and capacity to support these processes. Whilst the alignment process does provide for the basis of localizing the SDGs one would need to expand this to the aspects of reporting, monitoring and evaluation. As indicated in earlier chapters the IDP office began the monitoring with the extraction of municipal performance across the 169 indicators over a 3-to-4-year period using various sources of information from the annual reports, SDBIP, Budget expenditure on Capital projects. This source of data would be the key data set for the basis of a Voluntary Local Review. The collation and consolidation of the performance data would also contribute to a more structured approach to provincial and national government and feed into national government reporting on the SDGs.
The formation of an SDG Institutionalization Committee, chaired by the Deputy City Manager and assisted by the other two SDG Champions, has been critical to eThekwini taking this next step. The eThekwini SDG Institutionalization Committee is a platform for the Municipality’s SDG localization, implementation, monitoring, and reporting. It should be noted that some of the UN indicators may not be relevant in the context of the eThekwini Municipality, and thus the localisation process will serve the purpose of amending these indicators to address the city context, thereby assisting in monitoring the Municipality’s progress in meeting the targets. The committee’s mandate is to serve as a coordinating instrument for all SDG efforts, including but not limited to facilitating partnerships with external stakeholders such as civil society, private sector organizations, academia, and local communities, with the goal of driving and measuring local action toward SDG targets. One of the committee’s main goals will be to identify essential indicators for which the city does not collect data, so that relevant sectors may be mobilized to find means to collect the data needed for monitoring.
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