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Community-Based Planning and the Integrated Development Planning is a resource book for ward committees. The book covers the following questions [1] According to the Constitution and key laws, what is a municipality’s role in planning, and what are communities rights in relation to planning [2] What is Integrated Development Planning? [3] What is Community-Based Planning, and how does it link to the IDP? [4] What are the roles in the CBP/IDP processes? [5] What is required to make this community-based planning process work?

“Digital Governance in Municipalities Worldwide” presents the findings of the worldwide survey of municipal digital governance in 2007. The survey evaluates 86 large municipalities which have official websites and ranks them on a global scale based on their scores in the areas of: security, usability and content of websites, the type of online services currently being offered and citizen responses and participation through websites. The survey focuses on cities based on their population size and the total number of individuals using the Internet in the nation.