Performance information
Goal 7: Effective and efficient
administration
This goal encapsulates
the various interventions
that
SALGA
will
implement to ensure
that its administration
functions
effectively
and efficiently. These
interventions will cover
areas
of
governance,
products
and
services,
performance management, people
development, marketing and communication.
The activities in goal seven addressed the
following SALGA mandates:
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Support and advice;
Strategic profiling; and
Knowledge and information sharing.
Highlights of performance
Knowledge management
The launch of the local government knowledge
hub is a significant step in the improvement of
the management and dissemination of SALGA
and the sector’s information and knowledge
resources. Over time the hub will build a body
of knowledge (institutional memory) of local
government sector that will serve as an invaluable
reference for the future.
As part of encouraging documentation and
preservation of institutional memory, SALGA
completed the development of a multimedia
knowledge product titled “20 years journey of
SALGA” that is based on the 20 years review study
of SALGA. The 20-year celebration video profiles
the evolution of the organisation from inception
to 2016 and the video unpacks the constitutional
background,
organisational
development,
international relations and rebranding of SALGA.
SALGA developed a publication called “Good
practices in cemeteries management: building
local government capacity in cemeteries
management” to document good practices
and share them across the sector.
South
African municipalities are faced with a number
of challenges with regard to cemeteries
management. These include shortage of land
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for burial, insufficient budgets, poor records
management, vandalism and theft. With all
these problems, there are municipalities that
are excelling in some functions of cemeteries
management; hence the need to document their
practices to share with others that are struggling
in the same functions.
SALGA hosted a community protest seminar to
share good practices and lessons on managing
community protests. The key findings and
recommendations of the study on local
government perceptions of community protests
were presented and shared with the participants.
SALGA developed an innovation strategy for
the organisation and the sector. The sector is
still beset with problems of over-regulation,
lack of resources and insufficient funding. To
address these and many other ills facing local
government, new perspectives and approaches
are required. The SALGA innovation strategy will
provide strategic direction, coordination and
management of innovation for SALGA and the
sector.
The third edition of SALGA’s innovation
publication was developed, packaged and
disseminated through the SALGA website
and local Government Knowledge Hub. The
publication profiles municipal excellence and
innovations. This edition showcased five South
African innovations that can be applied to
municipalities
Municipal barometer
SALGA provides local government and
development
data,
information
and
intelligence via the municipal barometer:
www.municipalbarometer.net
to
SALGA,
municipalities and other stakeholders. This is
aimed at ensuring that SALGA and municipalities
use data and intelligence as a baseline to inform
their decision making processes for improved
municipal governance and performance. Service
offerings provided by the municipal barometer
are: raw statistics (data is available from 1996-
2016), benchmarking data (data is available from
2011-2015), and narrative reports. The reports
are easily downloadable from the municipal
barometer portal. Socio-economic profiles are