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:
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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”.
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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
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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