ECIAfrica

Technical Areas

Promoting effective planning, budgeting, and management within the public sector.

Eliminating backlogs in service and infrastructure delivery is a national South African priority. While much has been achieved since 1994, many South Africans remain without basic municipal services in water and sanitation, solid waste removal, electricity connection, and provision of affordable, permanent shelter. According to South Africa's most recent census (2001), 5 million people had no access to safe water, an additional 6.5 million were using unimproved water sources, and more than 18 million still lack adequate sanitation. At the provincial level, education and health-related infrastructure and maintenance backlogs continue, even while government funding is available to stem the tide. These backlogs have significant economic and social costs, retarding economic growth, which in turn leads to increasing unemployment and attendant social ills.

ECIAfrica provides targeted consulting advice that directly supports the government's efforts to eliminate service and infrastructure backlogs. Our developmental approach recognizes the importance of marrying efficient delivery with achieving South Africa's equally important transformation goals through labour-intensive works, preferential procurement, and capacity building of emerging contractors.

Some of our services include:

Infrastructure programme management, monitoring and reporting
Infrastructure management and implementation planning
Multi-annual capital budgeting
Asset management planning
Demographic trend analysis
Procurement process mapping and streamlining
Change management
Management of service level/delivery agreements
Mentoring and capacity building
Human resource management

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