14/06/2025
1.3 WHAT IS INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PLAN (IDP)?
Integrated Development Plan is a central planning tool for government that embodies
local government developmental goals and a comprehensive service delivery
programme. Integrated planning has been developed as a consolidated municipal wide
planning process that provides a framework for planning of future development in a
municipality. It ensures horizontal and vertical co-ordination and integration across the
national, provincial and local spheres of government. In addition, the IDP requires
community participation and stakeholder involvement. The integrated development
planning process is therefore critical for the success of every South African municipality’s
endeavour to bring about responsive, developmental and accountable local government.
The focus of this IDP is within the context of a seamless integrated strategic planning
process. The Municipality has developed a set of long-term goals and five-year
objectives (to be reviewed annually) that will form the basis of the annual business
planning and budgeting carried out on an ongoing basis. The IDP will also further be
shaped by inputs from communities and civil society, as well as direction from the
political leadership.
A five-year IDP supports a single, integrated planning process, with clear demarcation
between long-term, medium term and short-term planning. The five-year IDP should
therefore be understood as an interpretation of strategy and political priorities into a
detailed Executive Mayoral Plan that is to become the business plan, in this context, it is
seen as an implementation tool.
