Document: City of Cape Town: IDP 2007 - 2012

The year 2011/12 is the final year of the current City of Cape Town Integrated Development Plan (IDP). The IDP serves as a guideline for the administration, development, and budget and resource allocations for the City to ensure that it meets the needs of Cape Town’s residents.

As an integrated plan, the IDP offers these guidelines for every area of the City of Cape Town (‘the City’), which means that balancing available resources is key to the effective implementation of this plan. Financial resources are always a particular challenge, as the availability of income for the City to use in acting on its IDP objectives can be impacted by an array of issues. In the past two years, the recessionary environment coupled with the requirement to allocate significant resources to infrastructure development ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup limited the City’s available capital. Whilst both of these ‘events’ are now in the past, the City still had to take the lingering income challenges into account in both its budgeting and IDP processes.

Despite these challenges, the IDP remains focused on eight key strategic areas that serve as the foundation on which the City will be able to realise its vision for Cape Town, help to drive National Government’s job creation agenda, expand and enhance its infrastructure, and make sure that all Capetonians have access to the essential services they require.