Mpumalanga pilots roll out of Local Government Turn Around Strategy
3 February 2010
A task team comprising of officials from the National and Provincial
Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs has begun the
process of rolling out the Local Government Turn Around Strategy (LGTAS) in
Mpumalanga. The roll out of the LGTAS will be done in four phases, starting from
20 January 2010 to March 2011. The first phase will be the pilot project in
which three identified municipalities will develop Municipal Turn Around
Strategies (MTAS).
Drawing from lessons of the pilot project, the second phase will then
include all municipalities in developing their MTAS and incorporating them in
the Integrated Development Plans (IDPs). The third phase will include the
budgeting and approval of these IDPs, whilst the fourth phase will be the
implementation phase.
The following municipalities namely: Dipaleseng, Thembisile Hani and
Bushbuckridge municipalities have been identified as pilots for the development
of the Municipal Turn Around Strategy. The task team has met with the Executive
Mayors, Mayoral Committees and Section 57 employees of the three municipalities,
to outline the processes on how to develop the MTAS. These municipalities have
been requested to begin the processes by consulting all internal stakeholders
both at administrative and political levels.
The three municipalities are expected to their draft MTAS and submit
them to their municipal councils and the provincial coordinators. After the
submission of these draft strategies, stakeholder engagements will take place in
February 2010.
The Local Government Turn Around Strategy aims at targeting all
identified gaps, be they institutional weaknesses, service delivery deficiencies
or lack of technical capabilities, within each municipality and address these
with formidable resource inputs internally and externally from other
stakeholders.
Contact:
Simphiwe Kunene
Cell: 082 413 3931
Issued by: Department of Cooperative Governance and
Traditional Affairs
