Municipal Support and Capacity Building: Overview

Functions:

• Develop and maintain a system to monitor the overall wellness of municipalities.
• Provide and facilitate specialised support to municipalities, including support interventions, but excluding section 139 interventions.
• Provide support to municipalities to strengthen their capacity.
• Provide effective and efficient broad based management support to municipalities.
• Monitor municipal compliance with the property rates act.

Local Government Monitoring

Local Government Monitoring's responsibility is to monitor municipal transformation, viability, and overall wellness. It is developing and maintaining a comprehensice monitoring tool.

Specialised Support

Specialised Support facilitates the process whenever multi-facetted support involving various role-players is needed at municipalities. It gives the following assistance:

• It assists municipalities with informal support if institutional and/or financial deficiencies occur.
• It assist with discretionary interventions in terms of the Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA)
• It assists the Provincial Treasury with mandatory interventions in to the MFMA.

Municipal Capacity

Municipal Capacity aims to facilitate municipal capacity building initiatives. It also responsible for managing and implementing councilor development and municipal management development programmes.

General Management Support

General Management Support aims to:

• Provide municipalities with pro-active management support in order to ensure compliance with financial management legislation, regulations and policy frameworks.
• Provide municipalities with practical guidance, support and consulting services in respect of introduction, implementation, maintenance and accounting of free basic services.

Valuations and Property Rates

Valuations and Property Rates are responsible to monitor the implementation and compliance with valuation and property rate legislation by municipalities.