2003/4-Mopani District Municipality Integrated Development Plan
2003/4-MOPANI DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PLAN Prepared and adopted by the Mopani District Council in July 2004 on behalf of the people of this district This IDP is not a plan listing a set of static plans and programmes – dreams and wishes that may never be realised! It is a call to action – spelling out what needs to be done and who will do it! Join us in the journey of development! FOREWORD During the 2001/2002 Financial Year the Mopani District Municipality produced a five- year Integrated Development Plan (IDP) to guide development in the district. This plan is applicable at least for the tenure of the existing elected Council of the municipality and is subject to annual monitoring and review. The Mopani District Municipality presents its reviewed IDP to guide development during the 2004/2005 Financial Year. As a blueprint for development, the IDP informs the municipal budget, infrastructure investment and human resource deployment to ensure sustainable development in the municipal area. As the district Council, we use the IDP as a tool to eradicate the developmental legacy of the past through the restructuring of our municipality, promotion of social equality, creation of wealth and fighting poverty, and enabling inter and intra-governmental co-operation. The IDP process has enabled the district authority to appraise the current situation in the district municipal area, assess the community and stakeholder needs, establish public participation in development, prioritise the needs, implement programmes to achieve objectives and measure its performance. The key developmental challenges that we are faced with as the district are, among others, service backlogs, institutional under- development, racial and spatial disintegration, lack of socio-economic development, inadequate and decaying infrastructure, incapacitated local leadership and financial stress to meet all the developmental needs of the municipality.
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