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Innovation in Public Employment Programmes: Urban Management – City Improvement Districts working with communities & people on the street 18 May 2017

Urban Management Concerns

• Cities showing increasing concern on role of Urban

Management to improving Area-based or Neighbourhood Business Environment & Overall Investment Climate

• Urban Management Key to Urban Regeneration
• What are the Fiscal Incentives & Policy Instruments to support

Urban Regeneration?

• Is Urban Management an Opportunity for Public Employment

Programme Innovation?

• Mapping City Economic Development interests to PEP

innovation

Role of City Improvement Districts

• A CID = defined geographic area in a city where majority of property
• wners (usually 75%) have agreed to pay for supplementary or ‘top

up’ services to those provided by the City

• Special Rating Area or SRA
• City still provides basic services, muni roads, street lighting, traffic &

parking

• Top up CID services may include additional cleaning & maintenance,

public space upgrading & maintenance, additional security services

• Higher order services may include web based & IT services that

connect businesses in the area; business attraction & retentions services; event management etc.

• Objective is to maintain & manage public environment & public space

in way that promotes Good Place to do Business – raises investment potential

Role of City Improvement Districts

• A CID = defined geographic area in a city where majority of

property owners (usually 75%) have agreed to pay for supplementary or ‘top up’ services to those provided by the City

• City still provides basic services, muni roads, street lighting, traffic

& parking

• Top up CID services may include additional cleaning &

maintenance, public space upgrading & maintenance, additional security services

• Higher order services may include web based & IT services that

connect businesses in the area; business attraction & retentions services; event management etc.

• Objective is to maintain & manage public environment & public

space in way that promotes Good Place to do Business – raises investment potential

CT Central City Improvement District

• Cape Town Central City Improvement District (Cape Town

CCID)

• Well established & resourced CBD CID (2000)
• Integrates Urban Management objectives – clean, attractive &

reduced risk environment for Doing Business – with..

• Social Development objectives – Working with Street People –
• ver 7000 in CT – often seen as source of urban social concers
• Partners include shelters & vocational training NGOs
• Also Khulisa Social Solutions – engages in work-based

rehabilitation for homeless & environmental responsibility; and Straatwerk – rehabilitation NGO

• Pro-actively address homelessness & anti-social behavior – the

role of ‘Economic Agency’ in working

Khulisa Streetscapes

• Phase 1: Work Readiness – Recovery “Humanising the Urban

Poor”

• Working with CoCT EPWP and WCG Dept of Social

Development on using EPWP stipends – mixed experience

• Interesting examples of integrating homeless into work

activities as part of Urban Management that are NOT just street cleaning

• Fruit & Veg Garden on Roeland Street within the East City

Precinct

• Inner City Bakery – Mamma Mimi Bakery
• Recycling Transfer Station collecting waste from Inner City

businesses

• Soap Manufacturing for Hotels Inner City
• New Opportunities: Inner City/ Urban Roof Top Gardens with

Vega Advertising & Wellness Warehouse

• Inner City Social Capital & Cohesion – Interdependent future

CoJ: eKhaya Voluntary CID

• Voluntary CID = neighbourhood partnership programme that
• rganizes community involvement based on property ownership

into a voluntary neighbourhood association with an associated constitution.

• Voluntary CID or neighbourhood partnership often 1st first stage

to establishing a formal CID,

• eKhaya Neighbourhood NB case study of a residential voluntary

CID in the Hillbrow area critical to area turnaround & regeneration.

• eKhaya established in 2004 in Hillbrow through the initial efforts
• f two landlords in the area – the Johannesburg Housing

Company (JHC) and Trafalgar Properties.

• Employed a community organizer who convened 4 main landlords

responsible for 8 blocks in the area and key City role players

CoJ: eKhaya Voluntary CID

• 2nd phase eKhaya Neighbourhood Association formed action plan

around crime and grime.

• Initiated a security project using a basic security force on the

ground that had experience in working in the area.

• A cleaning intervention introduced contracted street cleaning to

liaise with the City’s Pikit-up and Region F to keep the pavement and street areas clean

• 3rd phase eKhaya built on its success of reducing crime, improving

security, ensuring a cleaner neighbourhood & mobilizing community operation through community activities that includes an eKhaya Street Sports project, Annual Kidz Day project, and Neighbourhood networking

• More broadly eKhaya raises the potential for collaboration

between a voluntary CID, City urban management and capital project upgrading, and a bottom-up approach to security and cleaning as well as even community development projects using PEPs CWP as a mechanism to involve community members in service delivery on a public employment approach

CIDs & Potential for PEPs

• More broadly eKhaya raises the

potential for PEP innovation

• Specifically collaboration between a

voluntary or formal CID, City urban management, a bottom-up approach to security & cleaning and community development projects using PEPs as a mechanism to involve community members in service delivery on a public employment approach

• In lower income or emerging urban

nodes do Public Health & Education facilities provide the anchor tenants that support a voluntary CID working with PEPs on emerging node urban management

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