Document: Comprehensive Rural Development Programme Framework (CRDP)
Description
Extract from the executive summary:
The Comprehensive Rural Development Programme (CRDP) is strategic priority number 3 within the government’s current Medium Term Strategic Framework. The design of the programme is predicated on lessons learnt from pilot sites selected through socio-economic profiling, community participatory processes and intergovernmental co-operation. A great deal of baseline data has emerged from the first two pilot engagements in Riemvasmaak in the Northern Cape, and Muyexe Village in Giyani in the Limpopo Province. The CRDP is therefore different from past government strategies in rural areas because it is premised on a proactive participatory community-based planning approach rather than an interventionist approach to rural development.
The CRDP is aimed at being an effective response against poverty and food insecurity by maximizing the use and management of natural resources to create vibrant, equitable and sustainable rural communities. A CRDP must improve the standards of living and welfare but also rectify past injustices through rights-based interventions and address skewed patterns of distribution and ownership of wealth and assets. The strategic objective of the CRDP is therefore to facilitate integrated development and social cohesion through participatory approaches in partnership with all sectors of society. This document therefore serves as the policy framework document for the Comprehensive Rural Development Programme - or 'CRDP'. The document therefore aims to set out the programme principles.
The vision of the CRDP is to create vibrant, equitable and sustainable rural communities include: contributing to the redistribution of 30% of the country’s agricultural land; improving food security of the rural poor; creation of business opportunities, de-congesting and rehabilitation of over-crowded former homeland areas; and expanding opportunities for women, youth, people with disabilities and older persons who stay in rural areas.
The ultimate vision of creating vibrant, equitable and sustainable rural communities will be achieved through a three-pronged strategy based on:
- a coordinated and integrated broad-based agrarian transformation;
- strategically increasing rural development; and
- an improved land reform programme.
Table of Contents
1. INTRODUCTION
2. POLICY MANDATE AND ALIGNMENT WITH GOVERNMENT STRATEGIC PRIORITIES
2.1 The Constitution
2.2 The Electoral Mandate
2.3 The Medium Term Strategic Framework
3. TARGETING EFFECTIVENESS
4. THE COMPREHENSIVE RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (CRDP)
4.1 Piloting and Laying the Foundation for the CRDP
4.2 Strategic Objective of the CRDP
4.3 Three-pronged strategy of the CRDP
4.4 Rural Employment Creation and Skills Training Model
4.5 Rural Development Management System
4.6 Financing the CRDP
4.7 Monitoring and Evaluation
4.8 Feedback and control system
4.9 Communication Strategy
4.10 The National Action Plan
