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By Admore Mbonda
The Municipality of Kariba (MoK) stakeholders have undertaken a review of the local authority’s 2021-2025 strategic plan in a bid to map the critical service delivery goals for 2025.
Councillors and other stakeholders of the resort town gathered at Harare Club for a three-day workshop at the weekend.
Speaking on the sidelines of the event, Kariba Mayor, Ralph Maoneyi, said one of the main objectives of the workshop was to craft strategies for improving service delivery in the penultimate year of the five-year strategic plan.
“Our strategic plan was running from 2021-2025 and it is coming into its final year, 2025. This meeting is informing us of what we have been able to achieve in the past four years.
“There have been two councils that have come in within that period and you will realise that the current council came in last year, 2023, almost everybody is new and it is also an opportunity for everyone to appreciate what was happening before the new council came into office,” said Maoneyi.
“But also, since we are in 2024 and left with one year, it is very, very important in that it gets us to understand what we have to do within the remaining one year that we might have failed to do in the past four years,” added the mayor.
Kariba Town Clerk, Richard Kamhoti said after the workshop, the council will be able to draft its 2025 yearly strategic plan and budget to reflect the aspirations of members of the local community.
Ministry of Local Government Deputy Director responsible for local authorities, Morgan Hungwe said the workshop came at an opportune time when MoK is about to begin its 2025 budget formulation process.
Hungwe conceded the late disbursement of devolution funds by the Treasury but emphasised the need for councillors to give citizens feedback in a manner that doesn’t create a rift between citizens and central government.