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Prioritisation in the world of Spatial Targeting

13 April 2023
Prioritisation in the world of Spatial Targeting

Spatial targeting is a concept that has gained significant attention in the field of urban planning and development. It refers to the process of prioritizing projects and initiatives based on their location and the needs of the surrounding community. By using location data as input to the overall strategy of the Integrated Development Plan and the Spatial Development Framework (SDF) of a municipality, local governments can ensure that resources are allocated in a way that meets the needs of the community in a strategic and efficient manner.

One of the key benefits of spatial targeting is that it enables municipalities to identify areas of high need and allocate resources accordingly. By analysing location data, municipalities can identify areas that are most in need of investment and development. For example, a municipality might prioritise projects that improve access to public transportation in areas that are underserved by current options. By targeting investments in this way, municipalities can ensure that resources are being used in a way that maximizes their impact on the community.

Another benefit of spatial targeting is that it enables municipalities to identify areas of potential conflict or overlap between different projects. For example, if two proposed projects are located in close proximity to each other, a municipality might choose to prioritise one over the other in order to avoid duplication of effort and resources. By analysing location data and applying spatial criteria to the Prioritisation process, municipalities can ensure that projects are being developed in a coordinated and efficient manner.

In addition, spatial targeting enables municipalities to ensure that projects are being developed in a way that is consistent with their overall development strategy. By incorporating the principle of spatial targeting, municipalities can ensure that projects are being developed in areas that are consistent with their overall development goals. For example, a municipality might prioritise projects that promote mixed-use development in areas that have been identified as growth nodes in the SDF.

Overall, the use of spatial criteria in the Prioritisation process is essential for local governments to ensure that resources are being allocated in a strategic and efficient manner. By using location data as input to the overall strategy of the SDF, municipalities can ensure that projects are being developed in a way that meets the needs of the community and is consistent with their overall development goals.

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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.