About Us
The Neighbourhood Development Partnership Programme (NDPP) Unit was established in 2006 within National Treasury in response to the challenge of the social and economic re-development of South Africa’s townships. The NDPP is responsible for managing the Neighbourhood Development Partnership Grant (NDPG) for rural municipalities and intermediate cities and the Urban Development Financing Grant (UDFG) for metropolitan municipalities.
The NDPP, is driven by the notion that public investment/funding can be used creatively to attract private sector and community investment to unlock the social and economic potential in targeted underserved neighbourhoods, generally townships. This will not only improve the quality of life of residents but also address the pertinent issues of economic performance.
The NDPP funds, supports and facilitates the planning and development of neighbourhood development programmes and projects that provide catalytic infrastructure to leverage third party public and private sector investment for future and more sustainable development.The NDPP’s vision for the targeted precincts we work in is: sustainable, resilient, accessible, vibrant, safe, walkable public places of opportunity that promote an inclusive economy, social cohesion and value creation.
The NDPP’s vision for the targeted precincts we work in is: sustainable, resilient, accessible, vibrant, safe, walkable public places of opportunity that promote an inclusive economy, social cohesion and value creation.
The Neighbourhood Development Partnership Programme supports municipalities through a multitude of tools and resources to facilitate eradication of spatial inequality to enable creation of liveable, sustainable, resilient, efficient and integrated human settlements.
Guiding Principles
What We Do
The NDPP supports municipalities to:
- Identify, prioritise and continuously improve urban and regional development networks;
- Plan for urban hubs, key economic nodes and CBDs and compile intergovernmental project pipelines;
- Prepare projects for implementation;
- Implement catalytic projects identified within the precincts and functional networks;
- Manage and maintain precincts; and
- Attract private and household investment.
The above activities are guided by the Urban and Regional Network Strategy (URNS). This strategy is aimed at leveraging private sector investment in order to transform the urban spatial economy. It consists of a set of sequential activities that optimise a package of public infrastructure investment, fiscal & regulatory development incentives and coordinated urban management in targeted locations.
The focus of this strategy is to shift infrastructure investments towards the creation of efficient and effective urban centres and regional service centres through an approach of spatial targeting of public investment – primarily infrastructure.
The urban and regional network is a city and regional-wide interconnected hierarchy of strategic nodes, service centres and public transport links between and within nodes. It consists of primary and secondary networks that interconnect at strategic nodes known as urban hubs, which are located within marginalised areas, typically townships.
Grant allocations are determined via a pipeline of prioritised projects that have been identified through the planning process, in targeted locations.
Spatial transformation of our cities and towns is therefore an important common goal to which requires our best coordinated efforts in order to address the challenges faced by many. That coordinated effort requires all our capacities and investments from both private and public in an integrated manner. The outcomes are realised through carefully planned inclusive urban form that in turn derive inclusive economic growth leading to more access to services and opportunities for many.
How We Work – NDPP Roadmap
Where We Work
The NDPP supports a portfolio of targeted precincts in 47 municipalities across 9 Provinces. The breakdown of municipalities include: 8 metropolitan municipalities, 25 intermediate cities and 14 rural municipalities.
The NDPP funds the following activities in targeted locations in its portfolio of Municipalities:
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- Project preparation;
- Planning and the development of catalytic programmes and projects; and;
- Development of built environment infrastructure upgrade projects.
The NDPP supports a portfolio of targeted municipalities that have been selected based on socio-economic factors e.g. location, population/population growth/population densities, governance, financial health, diverse nature of economic activity, concentrations of poverty, inefficient spatial-historical development, improved connectivity and mobility.
NDPP Support Map
The NDPP provides support support to the following municipalities: