The Municipal Systems Act, 32 of 2000 requires all municipalities to develop 5 year Integrated Development plans and review them annually. Greater Giyani has developed the IDP within an approved IDP process plan and engaged in a consultation process to ensure that communities become part of the planning and decision making processes.

The Municipality engaged in a strategic planning session, where a SWOT analysis was established and strategic objectives were developed. The process was followed by the development of projects emanating from the needs and challenges identified in the strategic planning session and IDP public participation Read more...

This section is a summary of what the Greater Giyani Municipality intends to achieve through an integrated planning process.

In terms of the DPLG Guidelines for Performance Management the relationship between the Integrated Development Planning processes and Performance Management are described as:

• The IDP process and the Performance Management System should appear to be seamlessly integrated;
• IDP fulfils the planning stage of Performance Management
• Performance Management fulfils the implementation, management, monitoring and evaluation of the IDP process

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