Such a response involves national sector departments, cutting across mandates and demanding action from – at a minimum – the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE),1 the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE), and the Presidency. [...] Other departments have mandates and functions too, such as National Treasury, the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (the dtic), the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI), the Department of Public Enterprises, the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, and the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA). [...] This has led to “non-optimal delivery of services and diminished impact on the triple challenge of poverty, inequality, and unemployment”, and incoherence between policy and implementation (Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, 2020). [...] The energy system also impacts LED, service delivery, and the wellbeing and livelihoods of people, as well as the integrity of ecosystems and ecological infrastructure. [...] The district and metropolitan scale of planning has been acknowledged under the district development model (DDM) as a critical level of governance to connect national and local plans and investments, and to ensure that scarce resources are optimally allocated to make the most of local assets (Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, 2020).
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