□  Constraints affecting the municipal role in partnerships

Municipalities are thus challenged with the new and unfamiliar roles of enabler and facilitator, and very different approaches to the roles of manager and monitor. Various officials and political representatives within a municipality will display different interests and capacities. A municipality's capacity to perform these roles is therefore determined by individual, municipal, partnership and external constraints. These include:

•  overly bureaucratic procedures, inappropriate to partnerships;

•  inadequate skills and managerial capacity;

•  inappropriate political interference;

•  resistance to change;

•  inter-departmental competition;

•  inappropriate incentive structures; and

•  mistrust and scepticism over private sector incentives and NGO approaches.

The human resource and organisational issues affecting their capacity to perform these roles are addressed in Chapters 11 and 12.