Infrastructure Led Growth through spatially targeted
Public Investment

Module Overview

Learning Outcomes

Content Video: Module 4

Module 4

This module on Infrastructure-led Growth through Spatially Targeted Public Investment takes a look at intergovernmental alignment in strategy, planning and infrastructure investment programming. The module details lessons learnt by metros within the broader inter-governmental planning context.

The objective of this module is to strengthen the role of metropolitan municipalities in promoting infrastructure-led growth through spatial targeting public infrastructure investment. The intention is for metros to guide infrastructure investment so as to have a stronger hand guiding private sector and household investment to realise government’s desired built environment outcomes of a more compact, productive, and sustainable city.

The module covers, inter alia:
•  Urban Development Priorities for Metros
•  Public Sector Investment
•  Comparison of Strong and Weak Metros
•  Instruments and Innovations
•  Lessons for the metros pertain to strengthening leadership and governance, spatial planning and project preparation, the Inter- Governmental Project Pipe-Line; and, implementation and urban management.
•  Lessons at a broader inter-governmental level address the need for ongoing public-sector reform in: planning; inter-governmental co-ordination; fiscal relations; and municipal support.

?Learners will be able to envisage the role of metropolitan municipalities in promoting infrastructure-led growth through spatially targeted public infrastructure investment.

Learners will be able to concur that for metros to respond to weak growth, fiscal constraints and urban development challenges, meaningful and practical partnerships across government and with the private sector are necessary

Learners will be able to interpret the lessons learnt in metros and how this will inform ongoing planning, budgeting and reporting reforms.