Planning and Resource Allocation. Facilitate the planning of IT investments, as well as determine and manage managing overall IT resources to efficiently and effectively support agencies’ mission operations. This service area includes, but shall not be limited to support for the following functions:
Planning and Resource Allocation. 6.1.1 In the first instance it is government’s role to ensure effective provincial- municipal co-operative planning and budgeting through a provincial growth and development strategy (PGDS) that is aligned with the annual municipal integrated development plans (IDPs), which specifically support sector development strategies at the local level and include the Integrated Rural Development Strategy and Urban Renewal Programme. In this work government will ensure that the national spatial development perspective (NSDP) pervades the planning perspective throughout the province, that it guides sectoral and investment development spending and that there is an alignment of parastatal and state-owned enterprises delivery in support of PGDS.
6.1.2 Business, labour and civil society commit to understanding and supporting the principles of the NSDP. Business, labour and civil society support the integrated planning processes committing to ensuring strong public participation because IDPs ensure predictability and sustainable sector development strategies and job creation.
