Using the 7-C Protocol to evaluate the Cape Winelands District Municipality's Climate Change Response Strategy's execution
| dc.contributor.advisor | Burger, Rinus Werner | en_ZA |
| dc.contributor.author | Morrie, Ricardo Arthur | en_ZA |
| dc.contributor.other | Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. School of Public Leadership | en_ZA |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-04-02T13:59:36Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-04-02T13:59:36Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-12 | |
| dc.description | Thesis (MPA)--Stellenbosch University, 2024. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.abstract | This study's goal was to assess the Cape Winelands District Municipality's (CWDM) response to climate change by applying the 7-C Protocol (content, commitment, capacity, context, coalitions/clients, communication and coordination). Public policy execution must be supported and promoted to avoid the complete or partial failure of policies. Therefore, raising awareness of issues within the policy-making process will lead to better execution thereof. Local governments have paid great attention to improving the policy-making process, particularly the implementation phase. The Climate-Change Response Strategy (CCRS) was developed with the intention of addressing the effects and promoting mitigation efforts through local planning rules and other means. This study includes a survey of the literature on public policies, and particularly the execution of climate policies. The literature analysis emphasizes the difficulties in putting policies into practice and demonstrates how a failure to consider the7-C variables could lead to implementation failure. Furthermore, the review of literature analysis indicates that a range of stakeholders must work together to implement policies. This study examines how the CWDM developed its Climate-Change Response Strategy and how South African climate change regulations were put into effect. The challenges and complexity of implementing the Climate-Change Response Strategy are recognised, including resource constraints, issues with administrative capability and coordination challenges. This research was both empirical and nonempirical in nature, and semi-structured interviews were utilized to collect data from participants of the disaster management, town planning, environmental health, and community services departments, using non-probability purposive sampling. The results showed that the respondents’ belief that there was a deficiency in administrative capacity; a lack of political and managerial support; poor client/coalition contacts and ineffective intra-organisational communication. To strengthen policy implementation, recommendations were made by means of the 7-C Protocol. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.version | Masters | en_ZA |
| dc.format.extent | 158 pages | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/131845 | |
| dc.publisher | Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University | en_ZA |
| dc.rights.holder | Stellenbosch University | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Using the 7-C Protocol to evaluate the Cape Winelands District Municipality's Climate Change Response Strategy's execution | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_ZA |