Description
1.1/2 The King Sabata Dalindyebo Municipality (KSD LM) was declared as a Presidential Intervention (PI) node by President Zuma in August 2009 with the aim of revitalising the town of Mthatha. The Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) in the Presidency commissioned a Formative Evaluation of the KSD PI in order to establish the merits and trade-offs that a presidential intervention brings to bear on a locality facing stubborn social, administrative, institutional and economic problems.
1.3 The KSD PI Formative Evaluation was launched in February 2013. The methodology included:
? A review of literature on urban renewal, government coordination approaches, and the historical context and trajectory of the KDS LM (February 2013);
? Review of a wide range of KSD PI-specific documentation including minutes of meetings, key municipal documents, and progress reports (February - September 2013);
? Results from a survey of 28 representatives of the KSD PI workstreams and Provincial Working Group (PWG) (April - May 2013);
? Interviews with 21 representatives from the various KSD PI workstreams (March – June 2013);
? Interaction in four scheduled Programme Management Unit (PMU) meetings serving as a Steering Committee (SC) (May 2013 - May 2014).
