Baseline Study for DDPBaseline Study for DDPin uMgungundlovu Districtin uMgungundlovu District

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Background

• Research based on questionnaires completed by participants of the BESG Deepening Democracy Project (DDP) funded by the French Embassy CSDF

• Forms baseline for the DDP• Research focus: basic services and public

participation

Key points

• Low level of awareness of FBS• Majority of DDP participants are indigent• Public participation is a concern:

• Attendance at municipal meetings• Awareness of the IDP

• Perceived poor municipal response to complaints

Beginning of a processBESG wants to begin a process of interaction with

your municipality to look at issues of:

Public participation in order to enhance service delivery

• Advertising (how?, when?, where?)• Municipal meetings (where?, when?, who?)• Information dissemination (how?, access?)

Indigent policy and FBS implementation • Visibility in the IDP• Adequate funding (equitable share, cross-subsidisation)• Linkage to strategies for poverty alleviation

Thank You!

Siyabonga!

Merci!