District development model to tackle issues
The DDM seeks to ensure that local government is capacitated and transformed to play a developmental role at district level to maximise impact and align plans.
KwaZulu-Natal Legislature’s Ugu District Champion said issues such as inequality, poverty and unemployment can be tackled through the District Development Model (DDM).
Khoza was speaking at the Port Shepstone Civic Centre during a District Development Model (DDM) Induction Workshop recently.
She said the DDM seeks to ensure that local government is capacitated and transformed to play a developmental role at district level to maximise impact and align plans and resources at their disposal through the development of “One District, One Plan and One Budget.”
Khoza who is also the MEC for the Department of Social Development said the workshop was aimed at coordinating a government response to challenges of poverty, unemployment and inequality particularly amongst women, youth and people living with disabilities.
“It is important for us as a government to plan together and work in a coordinated way to develop our people. We are faced by triple challenges which are inequality, poverty and unemployment. These are interdependent socio-economic phenomena, which we can overcome by using DDM correctly to bring services to the people together. The DDM constitutes a new way of doing things where the three spheres of government are development partners who need to plan together on what developmental programmes must be prioritised in the district and in our case at Ugu District,” said Khoza.
She added that the method refers to all three spheres of government, sector departments and state entities operating like a single unit in relation to achieving developmental objectives and outcomes in districts and metropolitan spaces over a multiyear period and over multi-term electoral cycles.
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