Reforms
The module on Directions in Planning Reform provides a background to planning approaches in different countries
and provides some insight into the reasons those approaches were chosen. This sets the scene for looking at the
South African metropolitan experience over the last 7 years, that has been captured in the other modules. The
purpose of this module is to explore the international influences which have shaped – and are still shaping –
South African responses to planning reforms.
The module covers, inter alia:
• Key
elements of planning reform, internationally and nationally
• The shift to performance-based
approaches
• Spatial Targeting
• Multi-level Planning
• Intergovernmental
Fiscal Transfers
• Evidence-based Planning Approaches
• Capacity-based Planning
Approaches
Learners will be able to explain the key elements of planning reform internationally and how this impacted on our own planning reform in South Africa.
Learners will be able to understand the shift towards performance-based approaches where it is the outcomes of planning that matter rather than compliance to rules and regulations.
Learners will be able to distinguish between and understand the concepts of spatial targeting, multi-level planning, evidence-based planning approaches and capacity-based planning approaches.
Introduction
Planning Reforms
Outcomes-Led
Planning
Infrastructure Led
Growth
Module 5:
Strategic Planning
Led Budgeting
Module 6:
Key Budget, Fiscal
and Financial Reforms
Module 7:
Rationalisation of
Reporting
Requirements
Section 2.1: Directions in Planning Reforms
Urban Reforms
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Online Training for Urban Reforms