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Alison Todes, Pearl Sithole & Amanda WilliamsonLocal Government, Gender and Integrated Development Planning... Tables and figures ivAcknowledgements v Abbreviations and acronyms vi Intr

Alison Todes, Pearl Sithole & Amanda Williamson

Local Government,

Gender and Integrated

Development Planning

Published by HSRC Press

Private Bag X9182, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa

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First published 2007

ISBN 978-0-7969-2197-0

© 2007 Human Sciences Research Council

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Tables and figures iv

Acknowledgements v

Abbreviations and acronyms vi

Introduction and purpose 1 Target group 2

Structure 3

The decentralisation debate 4 Decentralisation and the IDP process 4 The research process 5

eThekweni municipality 7 Msinga municipality 7 Hibiscus Coast municipality 7

National gender policy 9 IDPs and gender 11 The limits of implementation 14 Conclusion 16

Women’s voices and the place of gender in the municipality 17 IDPs and gender 21

Gender within projects 24

To sum up 33

Top-down approaches 34 Bottom-up approaches: voice 35 Bottom-up approaches: IDPs 36 Bottom-up approaches: projects 38

A differentiated approach 39

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Table 2.1: Structure of the research process 6 Table 5.1: Municipal type and future directions 39

Figure 2.1: Map of KwaZulu-Natal municipalities 8 Figure 3.1: The national gender machinery 10 Figure 3.2: Gender mainstreaming 11

We would like to thank our sponsors for their contribution to the project This publication

was produced with the aid of a grant from the International Development Research Centre

(IDRC), Ottawa, Canada The IDRC funded the underlying research, and co-funded the

workshops and this publication The European Union’s Conference, Workshop and Cultural

Initiative (CWCI) co-funded the publication and the workshops linked to it The

KwaZulu-Natal Department of Local Government and Traditional Affairs funded the provincial

workshop, while the three municipalities provided venues for the workshops The

Department of Provincial and Local Government was very supportive of our initiative, and

we were honoured by the presence of Nomatyala Hangana, Deputy Minister of Provincial

and Local Government, who closed the national workshop

Officials in national, provincial and local government, councillors, non-governmental

organisations, community-based organisations, women’s rights advocates, academics and

people involved in projects gave much of their time to participate in our study and in the

workshops We appreciate their contribution We also wish to acknowledge the work of

Nelisiwe Mngadi, Fikile Ndlovu, Sindisiwe Dlomo, Khanyasile Madizika, Jabu Ntuli and

Zola Gasa, who assisted with the research and the workshops Jennifer van Rensburg ably

organised the workshops and undertook the administration for this project

Alison Todes, Urban, Rural and Economic Development, HSRC

Pearl Sithole, Democracy and Governance, HSRC

Amanda Williamson, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand

CBO community-based organisation

CGE Commission on Gender Equality

CMIP Consolidated Municipal Infrastructure Programme DPLG Department of Provincial and Local Government DPW Department of Public Works

DWAF Department of Water Affairs and Forestry

EPWP Expanded Public Works Programme

IDP integrated development plan

MIG Municipal Infrastructure Grant

NGO non-governmental organisation

OSW Office on the Status of Women