What we did
Steve Tshwete Local Municipality, situated in South Africa's coal belt, faces challenges in transitioning to a low-carbon economy while maintaining fairness, equity, and community support. The municipality needs to develop the capacity, policy framework, and practical projects required to navigate the just transition, manage the socio-economic impacts of reducing fossil fuel dependence, and unlock financial resources for sustainable development.
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How we tracked
- Capacity built within the municipality to enable the just transition.
- Policy/ planning changes enacted in the municipality to enable the just transition.
- Just transition projects developed to a point that the municipality can engage with potential funders/ donors/ DFIs to enable further pre-feasibility and feasibility work on them.
- A Just Transition Roadmap to provide guidance for the Steve Tshwete Local Municiaplity and other municipalities about how to take forward a local just transition through policy, projects and capacity building
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What we achieved
ICLEI Africa is supporting Steve Tshwete Local Municipality in its transition away from coal dependence through a collaborative project aimed at building the municipality’s capacity to lead a fair and equitable just transition.
The project is working to:
(a) build capacity in the municipality to tackle the just transition in a way that is fair, equitable and just;
(b) enable policy change via the co-development of a just transition focused chapter within the core municipal policy document (the IDP);
(c) co-develop a methodology for the identification and development of just transition projects;
(d) co-develop 3 concept notes on 3 prioritised just transition projects, to assist the municipality in unlocking finance for the implementation of such; and
(e) hosting an Investment Summit/ Workshop where municipal officials will engage with potential donors/ banks/ DFIs that they can work with in taking their just transition projects to the next stage(s) of bankability.
(f) develop a Just Transition Roadmap to document the process of developing policy and projects for a municipal just transition and to provide a guide for the future work of muncipalities on a just transition
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