Project
Emalahleni Asset Care Project:
Phase 1
The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) introduced the Asset Care Programme in order to support municipalities to progressively improve their asset and organizational practices through improving the condition and performance of electricity, water, and sanitation assets.
Poor maintenance practices and lack on investment in the renewal of assets, lack of refurbishment of assets as well as lack of investment in new capital projects, resulted in the Emalahleni Local Municipality experiencing service delivery challenges in terms of water and sanitation, and electricity, this is resulting in poor asset performance and reliability. Ultimately, this led to extended periods of equipment downtime resulting from unplanned outages.
The DBSA has partnered with the Emalahleni municipality to assist with the assessment, development, and implementation of the Asset Care Project for water and sanitation, and electricity. The implementation of the asset care project was intended to assist the municipality improve infrastructure asset performance and reliability, reduce outages to acceptable levels, reduce water and electricity losses, improve the electricity quality of supply and protection, minimize the total cost of ownership (TCO) and thereby ensure sustainable services
Overall Approach
The approach incorporates support activities that were necessary to ensure sustainability of the intervention, communicate progress to all affected stakeholders, and ensure related project risks are managed proactively. These included:
- Risk Management
- Quality Management
- Change Management, Stakeholder and Communications Management
- Skills and Capability Transfer
Maturity assessments were undertaken across the various dimensions as per the GFMAM and ISO 55000 standard, an illustrative outcome of the maturity assessment in depicted below:
Overall Approach
PWD developed customized asset management deliverables that are geared towards supporting the roll-out and implementation of sound asset management system and practices for Emalahleni Local Municipality, incorporating:
- Asset Management Maturity Assessments(with baseline scores)
- Change Readiness Assessments
- ICT & GIS Requirements
- Asset Register assessments with asset condition assessments and proposed renewal projects for Electricity, Water& Sanitation assets
- Updated Asset Management policy
- Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP) –Asset Management Strategy
- Execution Plans for Water, Sanitation, Electricity and the Organization(Technical Department)
- A final Consolidate Asset Management Report
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