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National Spatial Action Areas

Project Type

Regional Planning

Date

2021 to 2022

Location

South Africa

National Spatial Action Areas (NSAAs). These NSAAs represent the most urgent strategic spatial development catalysts to (1) bring about radical spatial transformation at scale, and (2) manage and mitigate rising national risks, and as such, require immediate national action. Concerted and sustained intergovernmental collaboration is required in these NSAAs over the short term to:

• Target context-specific, focused and catalytic national spatial development interventions; and

• Kickstart the process of aligning plans, budgets and departmental plans in and between spheres of government around national spatial development priorities

National Resource Risk Areas

These are areas that are of crucial importance to the economy of the country and the lives of all its people. The National Resource Risk Areas (NRRAs) are all water catchments that under severe stress from an ecological perspective, while at the same also being ‘resource-critical regions’ for a range of economic activities

Northwestern Region - National Urban Spatial Transformation and Economic Transition Regions

More than half of the country’s population already live in metros and large cities, with this trend set to continue well into the future. In addition to being ‘home’ to millions of our people, the three largest of these urban conurbations stand out as having to undergo significant (1) spatial transformation and (2) economic transition for the sake of their current and future inhabitants, and the country as a whole

Eastern Escarpment Region - National Urban Spatial Transformation and Economic Transition Regions