DWS wraps water infrastructure grants consultations
The public consultations for the Department of Water and Sanitation’s (DWS’s) proposed Water and Sanitation Services Infrastructure Grants Management Policy (WSSIGM) have now been concluded.
The consultations were conducted nationwide on April 1 to obtain stakeholders’ views on the policy, which aims to support legislation on the management of grants for water and sanitation.
The policy will be reviewed every five years.
The DWS manages Water Services Infrastructure Grants (WSIG) and Regional Bulk Infrastructure Grants (RBIG) to support water service authorities (WSAs).
The department undertook a socioeconomic impact assessment to mitigate challenges associated with the programme’s reliance for the implementation of the grants on National Treasury regulations, the Division of Revenue Act, Standard Operating Procedures, grant frameworks and other pieces of legislation.
The challenges include a lack of integrated water services planning, a lack of a coordinated approach within the water sector in implementing infrastructure development grant projects and poor application processes and disjointed decision-making procedures.
Following the assessment, the DWS developed the supportive policy to provide guiding tools to ensure efficient and effective management, alignment of roles and responsibilities on WSSIGM with other intergovernmental departmental grants and alignment with both national and international policy and legislative prescripts for effective and efficient WSSIGM.
A major point debated at the consultations was consequence management for implementing agencies, as issues of misuse or noncompliance need to be strictly dealt with.
Other suggestions brought forward included partnerships with institutions of higher learning as part of the policy’s building strategy by tapping into the minds of, and working with, youth. 
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