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Estimates of the Provincial Revenue and Expenditure (EPRE) %u2013 2025/26 Financial YearThe Department will continue to improve organizational capabilities, capacity of municipalities in assisting municipalities and Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Institutions to comply with Municipal Staff Regulations (2021) and conduct Skills Audit as well as assess compliance in the recruitment of Senior Managers and monitor compliance with the minimum competency requirements. Assistance will be provided in the development of fit for purpose municipal organizational structure. The Department will ensure municipalities are with qualified staff in Project Management Unit (PMU) and Budget and Treasury Office (BTO). Supporting the review of credible Integrated Development Plans (IDPs) and District Development Model (DDM) One Plans are of paramount importance in reorientating councils and management of municipalities as well as sector departments and entities on the IDP and One Plan review processes. Ensure credible IDPs and DDM One Plans to improve developmental outcomes and impact. The clarion call is to improve financial management capability of municipalities, prioritise municipalities with improved audit outcomes by reducing the following: irregular expenditure in priority municipalities, debt owed to municipalities by government departments, municipalities%u2019 major creditors (Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), AWB, Auditor General South Africa (AGSA), Transport etc.), and municipal debt to ESKOM. Improve revenue management and campaign to inculcate the culture of payment for services by government, businesses and communities and implementation of indigent registers, improved conditional grants expenditure performance through support of Risk Adjusted Strategy (RAS) implementation and development of credible procurement plans. Strengthen technical capacity at a local level for the provision of services and infrastructure maintenance to improve infrastructure operations and maintenance. The Department will support technical officials within municipalities to progress from being candidate to be full professionals. To achieve this, the department is partnering with Municipal Infrastructure Support Agency (MISA) and Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA). The initiative will be monitored on a quarterly basis, but outputs shall be measured annually. Government departments and key stakeholders must support disaster management and climate change response planning in municipalities through a %u2018whole of society%u2019 approach. Municipalities must be capacitated in disaster management and to implement workplans through the disaster management implementation protocols. To realise that CoGTA is supporting sector departments to develop their own sector disaster management, which will serve as a base for the Provincial Disaster Management Centre (PDMC). The Department together with coordinating departments namely Office of the Premier (OTP) and Provincial Treasury (PT) developed the Disaster Management Plan and implementation protocol that is informed by the programme%u2019s work plan. Performance progress will be monitored by MUNIMEC which is led CoGTA and MEC on a quarterly basis. The Department is central in supporting and monitoring the implementation of the Disaster Management Plan on the prevention, mitigation, response to, recovery and rehabilitation from a disaster occurrence. The resourcing of disaster management will therefore be critical, and that will also assist in the delivery on the Disaster Management plans. The disaster management function will be sourcing snow moving equipment, temporary bridges to be constructed by South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers, mobile electricity engines to assist during major disasters. Effective public participation in targeted municipalities will be instituted to improve participatory local governance mechanisms and citizen engagement to achieve the provincial development goals. Effective petition management and training on Petitions Management Framework Policy in targeted municipalities will be undertaken. The Department will also develop a booklet of non-negotiables to expedite service delivery in municipalities through the implementation of a performance management system, strong monitoring, and evaluation process. 497