A guideline framework for transformation to a LED approach in local government : the Frances Baard district

• Main Author: Rossouw-Brink, Milinda
• Other Authors: Ackron, Johan
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch 2008
• Subjects: Local government > South Africa > Northern Cape; Economic development projects > South Africa > Northern Cape; Citizen participation in local government > South Africa > Northern Cape; Dissertations > Public management and planning; Theses > Public management and planning; School of Public Management and Planning
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1833

Thesis (MPA (School of Public Management and Planning))--University of Stellenbosch, 2007. === LED is the encouragement of a greater degree of local economic governance as an integral component of the pursuits of local community goals. It is about a systemic approach that manages community governance in such a way to achieve shared community goals and objectives. The intent to promote LED has become an established feature in the Frances Baard district, but certain constraints such as resource and skills constraints, lack of communication and lack of guidance from the other spheres of government, hinder the delivery of LED at Local Government level. LED is immersed in a line function environment that institutionally cannot support or sustain it, unless broader institutional reform takes place to bring the LED Approach into the mainstream of municipal and community decision making in terms of locating LED higher up in the municipal hierarchy. There is confusion between the roles and responsibilities of the Frances Baard District and local municipalities in terms of who should facilitate and guide the economic development in the municipal area. The assessment of these difficulties and confusions in terms of the institutional operations in the Frances Baard Local Government will identify and develop important operational guidelines for the district and local municipalities to overcome these shortcomings that occur within their organisations.