Conceptualizing community economic development strategic framework for poverty alleviation: The case of Raymond Mhlaba Local Municipality

DOIhttp://doi.org/10.1002/pa.1929
AuthorEmeka Austin Ndaguba,Barry Hanyane
Date01 May 2019
Published date01 May 2019
ACADEMIC PAPER
Conceptualizing community economic development strategic
framework for poverty alleviation: The case of Raymond
Mhlaba Local Municipality
Emeka Austin Ndaguba
1,2
|Barry Hanyane
1
1
Research Assistant, Department of Public
Administration University of Fort Hare, School
of Governance and Public Management,
NorthWest University, Potchefstroom 2631,
South Africa
2
Social TransformationSchool of Governance
and Public Management, North-West
University, Alice, South Africa
Correspondence
Emeka Austin Ndaguba, Research Assistant,
Department of Public Administration
University of Fort Hare, School of Governance
and Public Management, NorthWest
University, Potchefstroom 2631, South Africa.
Email: emeka@ndaguba.net
Economic regeneration is a segment of neighbourhood renewal that boosts
community economics and sustains certain principles of sustainable urbanization.
The community economic development framework for poverty reduction, the
implementation loop for stakeholder collaboration, and the NeoMarxist community
economic development strategy for local economic freedom are imperative for sus-
taining and renewing the idealism of shared prosperity, which is the basis of collectiv-
ism and community economic development in relation to community development.
Because, where there is poor economic vivacity; it is difficult, if not impossible for such
community to galvanize towards the realisation of the sustainable development
agenda, is tied to economic vivacity of an area. It is on this ground that this paper
develops a neighbourhood regeneration model or the community economic
development strategic framework for poverty alleviation for the Raymond
Mhlaba Local Municipality. Data were sorted from Statistics South Africa,
ScienceDirect, EBSCOHost, Proquest, and Scopus among others, and the data were
cushioned with substantial qualitative analysis. Triangulation, content, and theme anal-
ysis were used to analysis the data and propose the models for the paper. It must be
noted that an understanding and appreciation of this paper is dependent on the under-
standing of the earlier papers advanced in this series. Finding demonstrates the suit-
ability and the need for models in empowering those at the rural areas in South Africa.
1|INTRODUCTION
This paper proposes an economic strategic framework for reducing
poverty in Raymond Mhlaba Local Municipality of the Eastern Cape,
South Africa. It is the fourth in a series of papers for understanding
community economic development as a means for reducing poverty
in municipalities in South Africa, with a focus on the Raymond Mhlaba
Local Municipality. Previous papers had argued from the following
three standpoints: the challenges of international best practices to
poverty alleviation on local context, which dealt with the existing mis-
match of global agenda for poverty reduction and the inability for
municipalities to align with the goals for international development
as the structural adjustment programme, millennium development
goals, and policy framework and poverty reduction strategy papers.
The paper argued that global agenda are unrealistic in local context
based on three major challengesfinance, capacity, and leadership
(Ndaguba & Hanyane, 2018a).
The argument there was that municipalities must claim ownership
of the processes and procedures for addressing their challenges, in this
case poverty. Because, the need for engagement in matters that
concerns the locals cannot be over emphasized as seen in the Local
Agenda 21. Rather, than the traditional topdown structures for
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© 2019 The Authors Journal of Public Affairs Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Received: 22 January 2019 Accepted: 23 February 2019
DOI: 10.1002/pa.1929
J Public Affairs. 2019;19:e1929.
https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.1929
wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/pa 1of8
1
Research Assistant, Department of Public
Administration University of Fort Hare & School
of Governance and Public Management,
NorthWest University, Potchefstroom 2631,
South Africa
2
Social TransformationSchool of Governance
and Public Management, North-West
University, Alice, South Africa
Correspondence
Emeka Austin Ndaguba, Research Assistant,
Department of Public Administration
University of Fort Hare & School of Governance
and Public Management, NorthWest
University, Potchefstroom 2631, South Africa.
Email: emeka@ndaguba.net
2

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