Document: Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality IDP: 2011/12

The IDP has to be reviewed annually in order to:

• Ensure its relevance as the Municipality‘s Strategic Plan by integrating various policy and strategy frameworks and guidelines emanating from National, Provincial and Sector levels into a Municipal context
• Inform other components of the Municipal business process including institutional and financial planning and budgeting; and
•  Inform the cyclical inter-governmental planning and budgeting cycle.

For the IDP to remain relevant a Municipality must assess its performance and the achievement of its targets and strategic objectives. The IDP will therefore have to reflect the impact of successes as well as corrective measures to address challenges. The IDP process will address internal and external circumstances that impact on the priority issues, objectives, strategies, projects and programmes of integrated planning.

The IDP, as the Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality‘s Strategic Plan, informs municipal decision-making as well as all the business processes of the Municipality. The IDP must inform the Municipality‘s financial and institutional planning and most importantly, the drafting of the annual budget.

The IDP process and the Budget process are two distinct but integrally linked processes which must be coordinated to ensure that the IDP and budget related policies and the tabled budget are mutually