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Informed by the Medium-Term Strategic Framework (MTSF) for
2009-14, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Local
Government Turnaround Strategy (LGTAS), SALGA contextualised
and incorporated these government priorities and their relevance
to local government into its own mandated objectives, forming 10
Priority Outcomes. These 10 strategic outcomes replace the 5-YLGSA
priorities, in much the same way as COGTA replaced the 5-YLGSA
with the LGTAS.
The SALGA Change Agenda (Five Objectives) and SALGA Priority
Outcomes (10 Outcomes) now become the central components of the
revised SALGA Five-Year Strategic Plan (2007-2012), underpinning all
future national business plans, including those for 2011/12. SALGA’s
amended five-year strategic plan will provide a keen focus for its work
as the organisation establishes a niche in a congested space where
resource-constraints are a considerable challenge. Thus, SALGA will
be better positioned to more effectively respond to the opportunities,
challenges and imperatives with which local government will
grapple over the next two years. These changes will also allow the
organisation to effectively play its role in co-operative governance
and in fostering effective partnerships with stakeholders in the local
government sector, including other spheres of government. Having
laid the strategic foundation to represent, support and advise local
government, the 2010/11 business plan gave expression to SALGA’s
ambition to play a decisive role in policy discourse in order to provide
the necessary conditions for local government to effectively deliver on
its constitutional mandate.
SALGA’s revised strategic priorities:
Salga’s
Mandate
Salga Constitution
1. Employer Role
2. Representative Role
3. Advisory Role
4. Profiling Role
salga 5 year
STRATEGIC plan
2007 - 2012
5ylgsa
mtsf 2009 - 2014
MDG’s
cogta 10-point plan
salga change agenda
1. Improve SALGA’s capacity to support and advise its members.
2. Improve SALGA’s capacity to engage with stakeholders, lobby and
advocate them on issues in the interest of member municipalities.
3. Improve SALGA’s capacity to effectively represent members as the employer.
4. Enhance and maintain a high profile position nationally, regionally
and internationally.
5. SALGA’s corporate governance and internal functioning.
salga 10 priorities outcomes 2010 - 2012
1. Councillor Support: High calibre, professional and effective Local
Government political leadership.
2. Service Delivery: Improved access to municipal services and
enhanced provision of FBS.
3. Social Cohesion: Transversal (gender, youth , children, HIV/AIDS)
socio-economic issues mainstreamed.
4. Economic Development: Municipalities drive growth and
employment creation both in urban and rural areas.
5. Labour Relations: A productive, stable labour environment,
supported by a mutual gains approach.
6. Sound Financial Management and Governance System: Improved
financial management & financial viability of municipalities.
7. Stable Municipal Governance: Stability, transparency and
accountability in municipal governance.
8. Capacity Building and Institutional Development: Enhanced
skills and organisational systems & structures towards improved
service delivery.
9. Reform Organised Local Government: A more effective,
responsive and financially viable SALGA.
10. Climate Change Response Measures at Municipal Level:
Integrated climate change responses in development planning
and management.
SALGA Annual Report | 2010/11
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