Cities of Integrity Survey 2020
South Africa, Zambia, 2020
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Issues not listed in Q17 (q18)
Data file: cois-2020-v1
Overview
Valid:
79
Type:
Discrete
Range:
-
Format:
character
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Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| Ad hoc requests and/or other responsibilities | |
| Capacity and ability to attract underreptesented candidates to fill vacant posts | |
| Capacity and capability of authorising officials | |
| Changing priorities due to change in political parties. | |
| Client not submitting additional requirements for their project | |
| Compromise that involves a curtail of involved personnel | |
| Corrupt and totally incompetent government officials | |
| Different interpretation of Zoning and parameters etc | |
| Different interpretations of the policy by different officials, results in an unclear policy environment. Also officials require stage 2 building plans for a rezoning application, which is unnecessary. | |
| Directors rever work only to certain individuals and intervere negatively with clients behind consultants back. | |
| Directors/Leaders manipulating strategies to meet their own personal egos and agendas which are not in the public interest. | |
| I am involved in commenting into planning applications as a government official and comments are often ignored or overridden | |
| Inadequate tools and equipment to use | |
| Insufficient infrastructure to continue work when e.g. load shedding | |
| Interests from high ranking officials | |
| Internal Quarrels | |
| I’m not currently working | |
| Lack of management action, ignoring reporting of concerns, unnecessary delays, purposefully ignoring comments | |
| Lack of open accountability. Officials hiding their real motives. | |
| Lack of professionalism towards work | |
| Lack of support from superiors and selfishness | |
| Lack of understanding of planning as a key to proper cities and development | |
| Lack of understanding of planning procedures from most clients | |
| Lack of upfront planning and realisation that permitting takes time and needs to be interlinked with design and detailed planning | |
| Local Authorities taking to long to process applications. | |
| Luck of transport to go for field inspections | |
| Municipalities are never following timelines or deadlines | |
| N/A | |
| Nepotism and jobs for pals | |
| Nil | |
| Nill | |
| No | |
| None | |
| None, i am unemployed | |
| Not having a stable wirk station. Considering to be transferred anytime | |
| Nothing really | |
| Open interpretation of planning law and related policies. | |
| Our organisation being discredited by the state (often in the media) for challenging decisions, procedures and conduct that we believe to be unjust. | |
| Personel capacity and workload | |
| Planning is still a centralised activity rendering my capacities to oversee and coordinate limited at my level | |
| Political Interference | |
| Political Party Influence | |
| Political agendas of Councillors and Senior Management | |
| Political interference | |
| Political landscape | |
| Politicians influence | |
| Politics | |
| Poor management who are too concerned with pleasing their superiors, rather than achieving meaningful change in the city. | |
| Poor mentorship | |
| Professional politics only staff with urban and regional planning for their BSc are recognised and promoted it doesn't matter if you have a planning related undergraduate degree and an MSC in Urban planning with a experience in the field...... | |
| Protracted and rigid planning processes and decision-making | |
| Public Sector officials who does not do the job, because they do not see themselves as servants but rather than doing the public a favour. | |
| Significant number of Poorly trained and skilled staff in office | |
| Site environmental limitations and designations should be made easily accessible e.g. easy to use GIS interface on local authority website. Environmental legislation and process for smaller, infill sites, surounded by develelopment should be re | |
| The way people perceive how I work and carry my self in discharging my work | |
| Too much intergovernmental interference | |
| Too much political interference | |
| Traditional and Cultural Disparities | |
| Traditional leaders disregarding planning boundaries. Claiming township land as customary land even when there is evidence of them or their predecessors giving out land for planning. | |
| Uneducated & Unprofessional council officials | |
| Unpaid invoices | |
| Unreasonable Council Officials | |
| n/a | |
| none | |
| political issues | |
| unavailability of officials, especially now with Covid as an excuse. | |
| yes- Political leaders |
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
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Issues not listed in Q17
Imputation and derivation
Imputation
Issues not listed in Q17
Others
Security
Issues not listed in Q17