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• the municipal council’s development priorities and objectives for its elected term • the local council’s development strategies (which must be aligned with any national or provincial plans) • a spatial development framework (which must include guidelines for a land use management system) • operational strategies • sectoral plans required by other legislation (for example, water plans, transport plans, waste management plans, disaster management plans, and housing strategies) • a financial plan • a set of key performance indicators and performance targets. Although initially positioned as an instrument of local planning and coordination, the IDP is now linked in an intergovernmental planning system, and includes instruments such as the national government’s Medium-Term Strategic Framework and Provincial Growth and Development Strategies. South Africa’s effort to develop an integrated development framework highlights the importance of integration across legislative, strategic, and detailed frameworks. By adopting a management approach, the stated objectives are linked to human- and financial-resource allocation and provide a framework for implementation and operation. Source: Harrison, 2006.
Box 2.4
A Holistic Approach to Urban Planning: Indore’s Slum Network Project Indore’s Slum Network Project (SNP) in India is a project that adopts a holistic approach to urban improvement in which slums are seen as an integral part of the city. Instead of ignoring and denying the reality of slums, it used slums as (continued on next page)