ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES BETWEEN THE THREE SPHERES OF GOVERNMENT Stakeholders Government Provincial Government National Government Local Municipality District Responsibility Prepare, decide on and Ensuring Ensuring horizontal alignment of Provide support to Provincial adopt a Process Plan. vertical the and Local Government Ensuring that all relevant alignment IDPs of the district municipalities Provide legal framework and actors are appropriately between within the province. policy guidelines and principles involved; district and Ensuring vertical/sector Provide a set of planning tools Ensuring that appropriate local planning; alignment between provincial or methods; mechanisms and Facilitation of sector departments for the elaboration of a procedures for public vertical strategic plans and the IDP general framework for training consultation and alignment process at local/district level by: programmes and curricula participation are applied; of IDPs with -guiding the provincial sector development; Ensuring that the planning other spheres departments’ Contribute to the planning events are undertaken in of government -participation in and costs; accordance with the time and sector required contribution to the Provide a nation-wide schedule; departments; municipal planning process; and planning support system; Adopt and approve the Preparation of -guiding them in assessing draft Monitor the planning and IDP joint strategy IDPs and aligning their sectoral implementation process; and Adjust the IDP in workshops programmes and budgets with Provide opportunities for accordance with the MEC with local the IDPs. exchange of and for Local Government’s municipalities, Assist municipalities in the IDP experiences proposal provincial and drafting process where required Ensure that the annual national role and Monitoring the progress of budget processes are players and the IDP processes. undertaken other subject
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES BETWEEN THE THREE SPHERES OF GOVERNMENT Responsibility Stakeholders Government Provincial Government National Government Local Municipality District Prepare, decide on and adopt a Process Plan. Ensuring that all relevant actors are appropriately involved; Ensuring that appropriate mechanisms and procedures for public consultation and participation are applied; Ensuring that the planning events are undertaken in accordance with the time schedule; Adopt and approve the IDP Adjust the IDP in accordance with the MEC for Local Government’s proposal Ensure that the annual budget processes are undertaken Ensuring vertical alignment between district and local planning; Facilitation of vertical alignment of IDPs with other spheres of government and sector departments; Preparation of joint strategy workshops with local municipalities, provincial and national role players and other subject Ensuring horizontal alignment of the IDPs of the district municipalities within the province. Ensuring vertical/sector alignment between provincial sector departments strategic plans and the IDP process at local/district level by: -guiding the provincial sector departments’ -participation in and required contribution to the municipal planning process; and -guiding them in assessing draft IDPs and aligning their sectoral programmes and budgets with the IDPs. Assist municipalities in the IDP drafting process where required and Monitoring the progress of the IDP processes. Provide support to Provincial and Local Government Provide legal framework and policy guidelines and principles Provide a set of planning tools or methods; for the elaboration of a general framework for training programmes and curricula development; Contribute to the planning costs; Provide a nation-wide planning support system; Monitor the planning and implementation process; and Provide opportunities for exchange of and experiences
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