The National Treasury together with KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Treasury targeted uMkhanyakude and uThungulu Districts as the first point to roll out the municipal management internship programme. This roll out, taking the form of workshops, will eventually reach all districts in KwaZulu-Natal.
The first workshop, attended by the municipal finance and accounting interns as well as their mentors in both human resources and finance sections in municipalities from all local municipalities from uMkhanyakude and uThungulu distributes.
The objective of the Municipal Finance Management Internship Programme (MFMIP), introduced by National Treasury in 2004, is to assist municipalities to increase their capacity to implement the municipal finance reforms embodied in the MFMA. The MFMIP further seeks to assist municipalities to develop the knowledge and skills of the interns employed under this programme in areas such as strategic planning and management, municipal budgeting and finance management.
Celekile Moshane of National Treasury said it is an organised professional training and work experience programme with the goal of providing high quality training and practical exposure in all aspects of municipal finance management.
The program is designed to provide interns (who are graduates in the fields of Accounting, Economics and Finance) with a logical training sequence founded on the knowledge competencies they acquired as graduates. It is envisaged that through workplace rotation, there will be interaction and mentoring by Chief Financial Officers, Municipal Managers, international advisors and other experienced officials,” she said.
KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Treasury has therefore been tasked to implement the MFMIP; put monitoring and evaluation tools in place to ensure its efficiency in KwaZulu-Natal.
The programme still going to be rolled out to other districts soon.
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