a) MISA is implementing various capacity building programmes which ranges from the technical trainings that are offered to municipal officials and deployment of apprentices, artisans, young graduates, and experiential learners to municipalities. This compliments the interventions and hand-holding capacity building programmes that are provided by our technical personnel in a form of civil engineers, electrical engineers and town planners deployed across the country to provide technical support and enhance capacity building of municipalities.
Summary of Capacity Building programmes below:
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PROGRAMME |
Financial Year |
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2021/22 |
2022/23 |
2023/24 |
2024/25 (current status) |
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Apprenticeship |
100 |
100 |
97 |
63 |
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Bursary offered to university students |
100 |
100 |
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Experiential Learnership |
39 |
70 |
41 |
29 |
|
Training of municipal officials |
519 |
510 |
524 |
228 |
|
Young Graduate programme |
143 |
150 |
150 |
114 |
Type of technical trainings that MISA is offering for municipal officials (not limited):
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Financial Year |
Type of training |
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2024/25 |
Enhancing the Municipal Electrical Revenue Value Chain |
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Understanding the Technical Implications of Developing and Operating a Landfill |
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Getting Acquainted with Estimating, Costing and Pricing of Construction Tenders |
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Getting Acquainted with Management and rehabilitation design of urban road pavement |
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Township Establishment: How to Formulate Compliant Conditions of Establishment |
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Pressure Management and Pressure Reducing Valves |
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Getting Acquainted with General Conditions of Contract 4th Edition (GCC 2024) |
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Understanding the six work stages in the Project Life Cycle |
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Getting Acquainted with Wastewater treatment Plant Operation and Maintenance |
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Introduction to GIS in Local Government |
b) (I)
MISA focus is to ensure that the annual disbursed Municipal Infrastructure Grant (MIG) with a current annual allocation of R17bn is spent by municipalities towards increasing household access to basic services (water, roads, solid waste and sanitation).
MISA provides technical assistance at project planning, preparation, administering project implementation and refurbishment to improve performance throughout the MIG Project life cycle in the identified MIG receiving municipalities. MISA’s technical assistance entails, amongst other things visiting project sites in selected municipalities for verification of work done prior to reimbursement and disbursement of MIG funds to generate quarterly progress reports to this effect.
(ii)
MISA has procured design software packages to assist municipalities with design function and reduce reliance to consultants for provision of services. The design office was piloted at OR Tambo District Municipality wherein some projects (8 projects) were designed using MISA software packages and municipal personnel are trained in the process to build internal capacity of municipalities (2 municipal officials from King Sabata Dalindyebo LM were professionally registered with ECSA in the process, even though they have since left the institution after their registration). The overall intention is to ensure that MISA is at the prime of providing consulting services to municipalities whilst also building their internal capacity.
MISA is also utilizing the provisions of the design office to review technical reports that are submitted by municipalities for funding applications particularly for MIG. Indemnity liability insurance is being procured to ensure MISA technical personnel are indemnified against any liability of the work they conduct, and this will position MISA to be able to conduct the work that is normally done by consultants in municipalities.
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