Information on the Western Cape IDIP programme

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Background: The Infrastructure Delivery and Improvement Programme (IDIP), is essentially a capacitation and change management programme designed to introduce Best Practices, and to guide and create capacity in order to improve infrastructure delivery. It is driven by government's urgent need to perform on its service delivery mandate. The drive is to improve delivery management processes in Departments responsible for infrastructure delivery. The IDIP also provides implementation tools. The programme pilot phase was initiated in July 2004 for a year. There were varying levels of success amongst the Provinces, but senior management buy-in was earned. The pilot lessons were incorporated into the full programme which is mandated to run in its present form to March 2010.

Coordination: IDIP is coordinated by a National Treasury (NT) partnership with the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), Department of Public Works (DPW) and the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB). The prime focus is on Provincial Departments responsible for delivering infrastructure, namely: Education and Health (the client Departments) and Public Works (the prime Implementing Agent).

Mandate: The programme implementation mandate is jointly from DoE/DPW/DH. The National and Provincial Treasuries are the financial resource centres and coordinate IDIP in the Provinces. Programme assessment and design is undertaken by professional development facilitators. In each Province professional Technical Assistant Teams (PTATs) have been appointed and assigned to various Departments to implement solutions. Use is made of the CIDB (or "IDIP") toolkit, which provides work processes and guidelines for Departments.

Purpose: The basic purpose of IDIP is to assist in addressing deficiencies in infrastructure delivery; identify and address capacity and skills deficiencies; guide the development of appropriate systems for infrastructure planning, budgeting, implementation & asset management; and, to improve infrastructure delivery both in terms of long term planning and short term delivery.

Governance: IDIP has a high profile and a strong political mandate to perform. It is is tightly managed in terms of Team performance and alignment with Provincial Logframes. Monthly progress reports are collated by the consultants and sent to the NT Programme Management Unit for submission to government. The overall project is regularly assessed by external agencies. The most recent review by an International Assessment Team occurred in March 2009. The findings were generally very favourable indicating that the IDIP was performing well and meeting its objectives.

Western Cape: In the Western Cape, ECIAfrica and Project Shop are the key Service Providers. They have appointed a strong team of professional built-environment specialists who are assisted by ad-hoc, Short-Term Technical Assistants (STTAs) who help as and when specialist skills are required. The  STTA presently on the team is there to assist with Change Enablement strategies and processes, and general PTAT team and Departmental support. For more detailed information on the team, click on "WC IDIP Team and contact details"

Phase III: From 1 April 2010, as Phase II ends, IDIP is preparing its new incarnation. In (about) June 2010 the programme enters Phase III. The profile is being raised to national ministerial level, it will be central government funded and new service provider/s are being procured. Over the next 3 years the National Treasury's Technical Assistance Unit (TAU) will capacitate provincial treasuries to control and manage the programme. After that period the programme will become a provincial responsibility.