Municipal Benchmarking Initiative: Cities Working Group

This peer based learning has been structured through the establishment of City Working Groups for each of the six initial modules included in the MBI. City Working Groups are ideally attended by officials directly involved on a day-to-day basis in the area of work included in the module. Ideally these working groups meet twice a year to discuss performance in terms of the module and share knowledge and best practice. Two Working Groups meet in parallel. There is already a well-established City Water Managers’ Forum, which consists of the eight metropolitan municipalities plus Msunduzi. The MBI Cities Working Groups comprise the same nine municipalities. Three Cities Working Groups have met to date:

Water Conservation and Demand Management CWG#1

• Meeting date: Tuesday 8 October 2012
• Meeting host: eThekwini Water and Sanitation
• Meeting date: Tuesday 8 October 2012
• Meeting host: eThekwini Water and Sanitation
• Meeting date: Tuesday 27 November 2012
• Meeting host: Johannesburg Water

Human Resources and Skills Development CWG#1

Service Delivery and Backlogs CWG#1

The following schedule is proposed for Cities Working Group meetings during 2013 (to be confirmed):

For further details on the Cities Working Groups, please contact us.