ABOUT
Cities Support Programme (CSP)
The CSP is located within the inter-governmental relations (IGR) division of the National Treasury (NT). Acting as a change agent and a vehicle for collaboration and integration, the CSP aims to improve the capacity of cities and create an enabling intergovernmental fiscal system and policy environment to support city-led transformation.
The CSP supports metros directly and works across divisions in NT, with other national departments and broader stakeholders to enhance the enabling policy environment fiscal frameworks to make it easier for cities to work more efficiently.
The fundamental objective of the CSP is support the development of more compact, connected and transit-oriented cities through a programme of spatial transformation that is driven by capable metropolitan governance systems, and supported by enabling policy and regulatory frameworks and an appropriate set of fiscal incentives.
The outcomes that CSP seeks to achieve are:
- Metropolitan municipalities that are able to implement strategies to accelerate inclusive economic growth and poverty reduction by building more inclusive, productive and sustainable cities;
- Policy environments that support metros to implement such strategies; and
- Fiscal incentives that support metros to implement such strategies.