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Navigating Municipal Processes with Visibility

7 May 2024

Within the context of local government, visibility is essential to achieving a municipality’s envisioned goals and objectives. But what exactly do we mean by visibility? In this context, visibility encompasses not only the accessibility of comprehensive data across all municipal departments but also the path this data takes in driving the municipality towards its desired aims and objectives.

Access to data often goes unnoticed, yet it plays a crucial role in the realm of municipal development. Data can be viewed as the compass which guides decision-makers towards the most impactful projects, ensuring that resources are allocated where they’re needed the most. CP3 enables visibility through the following:

Strategic Allocation of Resources: With CP3’s prioritisation module, a municipality is armed with accurate data, mapping out areas in need of infrastructure development, social services, or economic stimulus. With this knowledge at hand, resources can be strategically and spatially targeted, maximising their impact and fostering sustainable growth.

Catalyst for Economic Growth: Economic prosperity is a result of deliberate actions and targeted capital investments. By leveraging on data-driven insights from CP3’s budget scenario tool, municipalities can identify and plan for short, medium and long term opportunities to stimulate economic activity, attract investments and encourage local businesses. This tool provides municipalities with a window into long-term financial planning and infrastructure projects, enabling them to ensure that their goals and objectives are met by exploring various scenarios within the budget scenario tool.

Eradicating Backlogs: Every municipality faces its share of challenges, from infrastructure deficits to social inequalities. However, when municipalities are enabled with the right data and a platforms like CP3, which has a commitment to visibility and transparency, these challenges become opportunities for transformation. By prioritising projects based on their potential to address backlogs, improve quality of life and provide access to basic services, municipalities can make significant strides towards a brighter future for all.

By embracing visibility through evidence-based outcomes and harnessing the power of data, municipalities can pave the way for a future where every community thrives, every citizen is heard, and every promise is fulfilled. Let’s champion transparency, visibility, and data accessibility by using CP3 in your municipality today! Contact us today, to start journey with Novus3.

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Capital investment prioritisation

Novus3’s innovative and celebrated approach to prioritsation, stems from significant multi-disciplinary experience that was gained in-situ at local government level, firmly rooted in an understanding of the built environment. Through the use of the CP3 system, our clients have the ability to appraise large and complex capital demand requirements within minutes, resulting in defendable, evidence based budgets. The results are often challenged and stress tested by politicians during political debates – the process therefore repeatedly have been proven to be beyond reproach and consistently reliable.

IDP Process Plan and change management

Novus3 provides advisory services to our clients, supporting them in setting up the correct structures and mechanisms internally which becomes the basis for sustainable and collaborative planning and implementation. The IDP process plan has a number of inter-related complexities that plays out on a cyclic basis year-on-year. Pre-empting and reacting to upcoming requirements in the IDP process pro-actively, renders the process into a constructive and demonstratable outcomes-based process.

Public sector budget and fiscal impact simulation

The financial management of public sector funding at local government level, even on a small scale, often rivals the complexity encountered at huge, listed, multi-national companies in the private sector.. Local governments have to operate and make smart financial decisions within a complex and exceedingly stressful environment. Compliance with legislation, policy frameworks and accepted accounting practices have to be maintained. Simulating these complexities allows our financial executives to ask “What if?” questions and reliably peer into the future with a long-term understanding of the implications of decisions that are taken in the present.

Spatial Development Frameworks

Novus3’s specialised knowledge and access to bespoke and purpose-made spatial and other analytic tools, provided the company with the opportunity to develop unparalleled experience in the development of Capital Expenditure Frameworks (CEFs) by bringing a practical angle to the formulation of implementation plans. A realistic roadmap is provided on how to realise the objectives developed in the Spatial Development Frameworks of the municipalities where we were involved. In return for the development and submission of these CEFs, these municipalities were awarded with significant additional funding from central government.

Built Environment Performance Plans

As part of the National Treasury City Support Program, Novus3 was regarded as specialist advisors on the built environment value chain – a process embedded in Built Environment Performance Plans (BEPPs). BEPPs were intended to form the bedrock of municipal capital planning and management for larger cities (metros). Novus3’s specialist knowledge played a big role from an advisory and capacity building perspective during the development of a number of BEPPs that were developed for a number of metros.

Infrastructure Capital Investment Plans

Infrastructure investment has to find a balance between addressing historical backlogs and inequalities, maintaining satisfactory prevailing functionality and level of service and strategically investing in unlocking future opportunities and growth whilst acknowledging a plethora regulatory constraints, policies and rules. In the process, certain strategic outcomes are sought which may manifest spatially strategically or environmentally. Our infrastructure capital investment plans provide the strategic guideline and provide the recommendations to find this balance.

Capital Expenditure Frameworks

Novus3 has developed multiple capital expenditure frameworks (CEFs) for multiple municipal clients and are regarded as the sector leaders in this area. These CEFs are financial roadmaps providing clear direction on financial constraints, the most important capital and investment priorities, an understanding of the unique local fundamentals and a sustainable response to these multiplicity of challenges.

Project preparation processes

The efficient planning and execution of projects from the moment of idea conception until the last brick has been laid has been the subject of study from as early as the reign of the Roman Empire. The governance process within the public sector has to play an important role in the journey of project preparation. The under-expenditure of allocated funding regrettably is often the only element in the built-environment that consistently re-occurs. All too often, funding is allocated to projects that simply are not ready to proceed to the next step. Novus3’s CP3 system is used to aid clients in the progressive steps involved in the project preparation journey.