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Comprehensive Rural Development Programme: the concept Docsity.com PURPOSE • To inform participants about the Comprehensive Rural Development Programme (CRDP) concept and the proposed approach for its implementation. • To invite participants to interrogate the concept and to engage constructively in the Green Paper process. 2 Docsity.com AGRARIAN TRANSFORMATION • Agrarian transformation is seen as the rapid fundamental change in the relations of land, livestock, cropping and community. • The change of attitude by development workers and rural people themselves is critical in defining these relations. 5 Docsity.com AGRARIAN TRANSFORMATION cont. • Some of the objectives of the agrarian transformation strategy include but is not limited to: – Facilitating the establishment of business initiatives, rural and agro-industries, co-operatives, cultural initiatives and vibrant local markets; – the empowerment of rural communities to be self-reliant and able to take charge of their destiny; – the development of a mitigation and adaptation strategy to reduce vulnerabilities with special reference to climate change, erosion, flooding and other natural disasters; and – the use of appropriate technologies, modern approaches and indigenous knowledge systems; 6 Docsity.com AGRARIAN TRANSFORMATION cont. – increased production and sustainable use of natural resources: • Livestock farming and related value chain development (exploring all possible species for food and economic activity); and • cropping and related value chain development (exploring all possible species, especially indigenous plants, for food and economic activity); – strengthening rural livelihoods for vibrant local economic development. A livelihood is the means of living that rural people build through access to and use of the assets they need for this purpose; and – food security, dignity and improved quality of life for each rural household. 7 Docsity.com RURAL DEVELOPMENT cont. – democratization of rural development, participation and ownership of all processes, projects and programmes; – co-ordination, alignment and co-operative governance (Local municipalities, traditional councils, provincial government); – participation of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) including faith-based organizations, Community Based Organisations (CBOs) and other organs of civil society; and – social cohesion and access to human and social capital. 10 Docsity.com LAND REFORM • Land reform focuses on reviewing the Restitution, Redistribution and Tenure Reform Programmes. All land reform programmes must therefore be linked to the CRDP. • The establishment of the new Department of Rural Development and Land Reform has also re-confirmed Government’s commitment to revitalise and develop rural areas and that land should be seen as a catalyst for poverty alleviation, job creation, food security and entrepreneurship. The revised land reform strategy will include: 11 Docsity.com LAND REFORM cont. – Picking up the pace of land redistribution through: • Increased access to land by previously disadvantaged people, through the redistribution of 30% of white-owned agricultural land; and • Reviewing the land reform products and approaches. – Review of land acquisition processes. – Establish a special Land Commission for an audit of privately owned agricultural land. – Put mechanisms in place to ensure that land is used productively. – Provide for the effective development and beneficiation of land reform beneficiaries. – The categorization of beneficiaries through targeted allocation. 12 Docsity.com EMPLOYMENT CREATION MODEL • Central to the three-pronged strategy is an employment creation model. • Para-development specialists to train and mentor selected unemployed community members. Using the Extended Public Works Programme (EPWP) principles. Muyexe: e.g. secure 1 job per household (900 jobs). • Phase One (incubator) - meet basic needs. • Phase Two - entrepreneurial development. • Phase Three -small, micro and medium enterprises and village markets. 15 Docsity.com 16 CRDP MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS COUNCIL OF STAKEHOLDERS (Organs of civil society, government, business, co-operatives, ward committees beneficiaries, workers, community development workers, traditional institutions, etc.) OFFICE OF THE PREMIER CRDP Champion (MEC with rural development function) MINISTER OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND LAND REFORM DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND LAND REFORM Programme Development, policy and legislation development and Co-ordination Household Co-operatives & other enterprises (groups of 20) Stakeholder commitments Conditionalities, code of conduct & disciplinary panel Stakeholder commitments SOCIAL COHESION AND DEVELOPMENT Docsity.com IMPLEMENTATION PLAN • The CRDP requires a co-ordinated strategy. • Refinement of the CRDP will continue through selected pilots in the eight provinces. • Pilot phase expected to run for a minimum of two years. • The CRDP will then be scaled up from the initial pilot sites into other sites nationally but linked to the overall planning frameworks within a province. 17 Docsity.com