National Treasury

Divisions - Budget Office - Neighbourhood Development Partnership Grant Fund

TO ALL MUNICIPAL MANAGERS and/or headS of planning and/or headS of economic development AND/OR RELATED CONSULTANTS

NDPG APPLICATIONS: ROUND 4 (29 FEBRUARY 2008 TO TUESDAY, 10 JUNE 2008 at 12h00)

You are advised that National Treasury will be accepting bids for the conditional Neighbourhood Development Partnership Grant (NDPG) between 29 February and 10 June 2008. This Technical Assistance and Capital Grant is intended to drive future-orientated development of underserved residential neighbourhoods (i.e. especially townships).

One of the key objectives of the NDPG programme is to stimulate and accelerate expenditure in public community infrastructure, places and facilities for projects in the NDPG Portfolio that can leverage private sector investment. These actions aim to attract private, public and community sector investment, within the context of an overarching regeneration strategy for the townships. Examples of such projects include, but are not necessarily limited to, the development of:

Nodal and/or precinct projects
Linkage projects (internal and/or external)
General environmental improvement projects

To date, the Neighbourhood Development Partnership (NDP) Unit has received over 500 applications. The National Treasury has accepted 55 projects from Rounds 1 and 2 into its NDPG Portfolio, with another 19 projects from Round 3 soon to be confirmed.

Please refer to the web page on www.treasury.gov.za/ndp for the application form and the NDPG Toolkit. Click on the icon for the ‘NDPG Toolkit’ on the left of the screen for the five Toolkit documents. Toolkit 3 of 5 is the Registration Form for the grant and is available in Adobe Acrobat and MsWord formats for your convenience.

Do not hesitate to contact the following members of the NDP Unit (or fax to (012) 315-5779) if you have any queries:

Talita Van Der Westhuizen: Tel: (012) 315-5459, e-mail: Talita.vdWesthuizen@Treasury.gov.za

Suvashna Singh: Tel: (012) 315-5556, e-mail : Suvashna.Singh@Treasury.gov.za

Round 4 for the NDPG opens on 29 February 2008 and closes on TUESDAY, 10 June 2008 at 12h00. Only hand-delivered applications will be evaluated. Late registrations will not be considered.