SALGA annual report 2016/17 SALGA ANNUAL REPORT 201617 PRINTED FINAL | Page 65

Performance information Goal 2: Safe and healthy environment and communities This goal encapsulates the various social, health and safety interventions that are implemented to build safe communities, healthy communities, and active communities. It also incorporates a specific focus on eradicating poverty, inequality and xenophobia at a municipal level. SALGA aims to facilitate the transformation of local of local government by assisting municipalities to mainstream these transversal issues. It facilitates human development through sports, recreation, arts and culture, disaster risk management and public safety initiatives in local government. The activities in goal two addressed the following SALGA mandates: • • • Lobby, advocate and represent; Support and advice; and Knowledge and information sharing. and the need to continue conducting the annual audit of MHS. Costing of municipal health services SALGA conducted a municipal health costing study based on decisions taken at the 2013, 2014, and 2015 municipal health summits. The summits resolved that SALGA should conduct a costing of municipal health services by providing more detailed information than what currently exist on the financing of the MHS service by municipalities. The costing would audit both municipal own resource contribution to MHS as well as equitable share. The focus would largely be on salaries, transport, laboratory costs and any other major costs identified during this study. Despite a solid legislative framework that has been in existence for more than 20 years, the process of devolution of municipal health services has not yet been completed. While it is commendable that in the past seven years, the number of metropolitan and districts municipalities that have concluded this process has increased from around 20 to 37. Highlights of performance Gender responsive budgeting Municipal health services summit The report on gender responsive budgeting has been developed focusing on the following objectives: SALGA, in partnership with the South African Institute of Environmental Health (SAIEH), The International Federation of Environmental Health, Environmental Health Practitioners (EHPs) and the City of Cape Town convened the environmental health conference and the municipal health services summit at the The Lord Charles hotel and conference centre, in Somerset West from 30 January - 1 February 2017 under the theme “20 years of environmental health excellence in South Africa”. • • • • The 2017 event was convened in a context of extensive research into environmental health. The key emerging issues of the conference and summit included the challenges of environmental health community services in South Africa, the importance of effective regulations and communication, the impact of secondary smoking nicotine from e-cigarette 65 • To analyse IDPs of selected municipalities to determine the status quo so that municipalities can understand where change is required; To understand gender issues and gender gaps within municipalities; To help understand how existing budgets and programmes affect men, women, boys and girls; To help strengthen capacity and accountability of municipalities to implement gender equality commitments and address women’s priorities in planning, budgeting systems and programming; and To be able to track how municipal funds are spent on vulnerable groups and in particular on gender mainstreaming. SALGA ANNUAL REPORT 2016/17