NCOP visits for Provincial Week programme

The Limpopo delegates to the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) arrived in the city on Tuesday for a Provincial Week programme with the overarching theme ‘Building Sustainable, Responsive and People-Centred Municipalities’.
The aim of the programme is to ensure that provincial delegates to the NCOP keep in touch with developments and challenges facing their provinces, to accord delegates to the NCOP an opportunity to interact with their respective provinces and report on their activities in the NCOP with the aim of obtaining new mandates on issues to be placed on the national agenda, to provide a forum for the exchange and sharing of ideas around service delivery issues and challenges facing the provinces in fulfilling their roles and finally to create an opportunity for the NCOP and provinces to work together in seeking solutions and developing new ways to address the challenges facing local government and ensuring that the local government sphere responds adequately to the mandate of delivering services to communities.
During this week, the NCOP delegates will have examined the current state of local government in respect of its developmental mandate, service delivery and institutional capacity by visiting municipalities under distress.
Delivery of basic services to communities, financial viability, local economic development, governance are some of the thematic areas that relate to accountability and good governance, will be explored:
At time of going to press on Tuesday, MEC for Economic Development, Environment and Tourism, Thabo Mokone briefed delegates regarding economic development with an emphasis on targeted economic sectors and initiatives at the Polokwane municipal chamber.

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