C. DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES
3.3 STRATEGIC FOCUS AREAS, DEVELOPMENT GOALS, STRATEGIES AND OBJECTIVES
Key Performance Area 1: Municipal Transformation and Organisational Development
Development Goals
To facilitate the process towards achieving a development-orientated municipality
To build capacity among officials and councilors to lead and manage development throughout the Municipality
Development Strategies Development Objectives
To develop staff and councilor skills toensure effective service delivery
Continuously identify staff and councilor training needs
Revision and implementation of the Workplace Skills Plan
To improve effective and efficient communication between internal staff and councilors
Implement Revised Communication Plan
To improve productive and accountable staff
Amend and align PMS for Municipality
Implement Employee Readiness and Wellness Programme
Prepare Comprehensive HR Strategy To ensure that Organisational
Structure of the Municipality is fully aligned with the Municipality‟s developmental mandate
Amend and align the Municipal Organisational Structure with the IDP
Key Performance Area 2: Basic Service Delivery
Development Goal
To facilitate the delivery of basic services, namely water and sanitation as a 1st priority
To facilitate the delivery of all other required infrastructure and services, such as water, sanitation, electricity, access roads, telephones, postal services, clinics, schools, community halls, sport fields and facilities, pension payout points, police stations, housing, etc. in a sustainable manner
Development Strategies Development Objectives
To ensure the provision, upgradingand maintenance of Infrastructure and Services to address Backlogs
To ensure that water and sanitation needs are catered for in the UDM Water and Sanitation Development Plan (WSDP) and that its roll-out is programmed accordingly (including operation and maintenance)
To ensure, through liaison with ESKOM and UDM, that uMlalazi‟s residents receive free basic electricity, and that the UDM Energy Sector Plan as it relates to uMlalazi is implemented
To ensure that all municipal infrastructure is properly maintained through the preparation and implementation of an Integrated Municipal Services and Infrastructure Maintenance Plan
Key Performance Area 2: Basic Service Delivery
To ensure the provision of
sustainable, affordable and suitably- located housing development
Implement the uMlalazi Housing Sector Plan in conjunction with the Department of Housing [subject to subsidy allocation (funding) from DOH to achieve this]
To ensure co-ordinated service delivery from all service providers
To prepare and implement an Infrastructure and Services Provision Communication Strategy which details the roles and
responsibilities of all service providers in the municipality, as well as assist with the co- ordination of such service delivery
To ensure the provision of sustainable community facilities
Prepare and Implement a Municipal Community Facilities Plan (inclusive of an audit on all facilities, particularly pension payout points, and an Implementation Plan)
Prepare and Implement a Cemetery Sector Plan
Constant liaison with the Department of Health to ensure to ensure an acceptable level of primary health care in the Municipal Area
Prepare and Implement, in conjunction with UDM, a Municipal Integrated Waste
Management Plan To ensure the sustainable and
effective use of scarce Energy Resources
Prepare Renewable Energy Strategy
Key Performance Area 3: Local Economic Development
Development Goal
To promote socio-economic development and provide support to assist communities throughout the Municipality to cope with the combined impact of poverty and HIV/AIDS;
and
To strengthen the local economy with particular emphasis on tourism, agriculture, commercial and light industrial development.
To ensure that an enabling environment for development in the Municipality is created;
To ensure the sustainable use of land and the natural environment
Development Strategies Development Objectives
To ensure the appropriate andeffective use of land through spatial planning initiatives and the
implementation of the outcomes thereof
Finalise and implement 1st Phase of LUMS (towns of Eshowe, Mtunzini and Gingindlovu)
Prepare and implement 2nd Phase of LUMS focusing on all areas of the Municipality outside of the formal town areas of Eshowe,
Gingindlovu and Mtunzini
Ongoing liaison with UDM and Coastal Management Working Group
Facilitate the process to have Mbongolwane Wetland declared as a protected area
Investigate wetland Area in Ward 5 and facilitate the process to have the Wetland declared as a protected area
Review the uMlalazi SDF (including its
alignment with National, Provincial and District
Key Performance Area 3: Local Economic Development
Municipality Plans, Polcies and Strategies) Ensure the sustainability and
protection of the Municipality‟s Natural Resources
Revise and Implement the Municipal Integrated Environmental Program
Expand and implement Weed eradication programme into Rural Areas
To minimize the effect of natural and other disasters on communities
Revise and implement the uMlalazi Municipal Disaster Management Plan
To cater for the economic and social development needs of youth, women, the disabled and the aged members of communities
Ensure that the municipal Procurement Policy is gender and disabled sensitive
Ensure that Municipal Employment Equity Plan is gender and disabled sensitive
To facilitate economic growth and development within the municipal area
Establish LED Unit and supporting LED Structures
Review and Implement uMlalazi‟s Local Economic Development (LED) Plan
In conjunction with Dept of Agriculture, from whom funding should be sourced, prepare and implement Municipal Agricultural Development Plan
Prepare Nodal Framework Plans for all Nodes, as identified in the revised SDF
Investigate the Feasibility of establishing service and light industry at Gingindlovo
Facilitate the establishment of the IDP Business Forum
To market uMlalazi Municipal area to attract investment
Prepare and implement a Municipal Marketing Strategy
To promote uMlalazi as a tourism destination
Implement a Municipal Tourism Plan
Investigate the feasibility of Cross Border Tourism Initiatives – particularly along the coastal strip and the Tugela River
To promote SMME development in the Municipality
Encourage SMME development at the Bus Rank Node in Eshowe
Support the establishment of sustainable SMME development through establishing advisory centres, training and exposure to funding sources
Key Performance Area 4: Municipal Financial Viability and Management
Development Goal
To ensure sound Financial Management that will ensure alignment with the
Municipality‟s IDP, in order to ensure efficient, effective and sustainable development
Development Strategies Development Objectives
Ensure that financial resources are efficiently and effectively allocated
Revise and implement Financial Plan
Ensure that the Budget (capital and
operational) is aligned to the IDP (link to the preparation of Financial Plan, the Service Delivery Budget Implementation Plan (SDBIP) and the Integrated Capital Investment Plan)
Review Integrated Capital Investment Plan (i.t.o. Capital Investment Policy)
Key Performance Area 5: Good Governance and Public Participation
Development Goal
To ensure that the developmental mandate of the municipality is understood by all the municipality‟s residents, role players and stakeholders; and
To ensure that the Municipality, as an organization, operates effectively and efficiently in a transparent manner
Development Strategies Development Objectives
To facilitate community developmentand involvement in all aspects of local governance
Involve Ward Committees and Community Development Workers (CDWs) in the IDP processes
Conduct IDP Road Shows To promote active participation of all
political role players
Introduce Joint Bi-annual meetings between Council and the Amakhosi in the Municipal Area to discuss issues of mutual interest
Prepare and implement a Reimbursive Policy for transport and related expenses
To promote community health and safety
Establish Community Safety Forum
Prepare and implement a Safety Plan for the Municipal Area