Contribute to Strategic Planning Process in a South African Municipality Assignment

Assignment Task

1. Vision and mission statements in a South African municipality and the local government legislative framework.

Learning task

• How would you identify a mission and a vision in your municipality?
• Describe a process you would follow when formulating a Strategy in your municipality.
• Identify the role players in your municipality and describe their roles and responsibilities.

Assessment Criteria

• The various role-players for consultation typically required in the formulation of municipal ‘vision` and `mission` statements are identified for consultation.
• A process is designed for formulating `vision` and `mission` statements including all role-players and in accordance with relevant legislation.
• Different municipal mission statements are evaluated in the context of the actual service delivery programmes and evolving macro environment.
•  Programmes are formulated to carry out service delivery activities required to support an already formulated mission statement.

2. Conduct a stakeholder analysis and develop a framework for community participation process

Learning task

• Describe your municipality’s participatory framework in stategic planning process;
• Is it in line with the requirements of the MSA?
• What are its shortcomings?

Assessment Criteria

This learning unit entailed identification of stakeholders in a strategic planning process. The assessment will be based on the understanding of the roles of those stakeholders in the strategic planning. Furthermore the assesment will also be based on the understanding and provisions participatory legislative requirements.

3. Identify key performance areas applicable to institutional strategies as required by the local government legislative framework

Learning task

• Identify key performance areas in your municipality;
• Describe how these KPA’s are aligned to your institutional strategies as required by the local government legislative framework;
• Describe how these Key Perfromance Areas are aligned with vision and mission statements;
• Outline the process you would follow in evaluating Key Performance Areas in terms of institutional arrangements.

Assessment Criteria

• Diferentiation between a strategy and a Key performance area
• Knowledge of the Legislative framework that forms basis for identifyiing Key Performmance Areas
• Alignment of Key Performance areas to Instutional strategies 
• Alignment of Key Performance areas to Vision and Mission

4. Formulation of Institutional Strategies

Learning task

• Outline Institutional Strategies in your municipality
• Formulate Participatory Structures and roles per structure in these Institutional strategies
• Describe how these institutional strategies are aligned to the local government legislative framework;
• Describe how these Institutional Strategies are aligned with vision and mission statements;

Assessment Criteria

• Knowledge of the Legislative framework that forms basis for formulating Institutional Strategies
• Knowledge of a participatory process in formulating Institutional Strategies 
• Alignment of Institutional Strategies to Vision and Mission 
• Differentation between an Institutional Strategy and Programme
• Factors to be included in the programmes

5. Knowledge and application of the legislative framework for integrated development planning

Learning task

• Legislative Act, highlighting the act that have been excluded
• Key Peformace Areas and Key Performance Indicators
• IDP core components

Assessment Criteria

• This learning unit entailed Act that serve as Legislative framework for integrated development planning. Therefore your understanding and provisions of these Acts will be tested in line with the requirements of participatory legislative requirement.
• This unit standard also focussed on IDP core components. Thus the the understanding of these components is also a requirements.

6. Formulate programs and develop methods for monitoring the implementation of a strategic plan and related programmes.

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