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The new developmental role of local authorities
holds the key to the development process of South Africa. In this process
local government is a key role-player that should be empowered to unlock
local delivery and development.
Empowering local government will require a
major reconstruction and transformation effort. It will also require changes
in the way local government thinks, behaves and organises itself.
Developmental local government –
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actively promotes social and economic
development in their areas;
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shapes their local spaces in a more
equitable and efficient manner;
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plays a strong policy-making and strategic
role;
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restructures itself to allow for both
effective service delivery and greater community participation; and
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has the interest of the poor at the core of
its mission.
Integrated Development Planning (IDP) is a
crucial mechanism to achieve developmental local government and to overcome
the apartheid legacy of our towns. It generally refers to a process of
planning which takes a range of sectors, development activities and actors
into consideration. It also adopts a holistic approach to the tools
available to undertake such a process of planning and, on this basis,
attempts to construct linkages between financial planning, infrastructure
investment planning, service delivery and inter-governmental relations.
IDP is a way of maximising the impacts of all
developmental interventions that government makes and is especially relevant
at the local level.
To download the Baviaans Municipality's IDP's
over the years in .pdf format click on the year desired:
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