Sol Plaatje Local Municipality through National Treasury General Budget Support has been funded to implement “Enhancing Sol Plaatje Local Municipality’s economic governance and infrastructure for Business Expansion Attraction and Retention (BEAR)” hereafter referred to as “the BEAR project”.

The aim of the programme is to enhance SLM’s economic governance and infrastructure through; a digitalised business application (& facilitation) platform, a harmonised business regulatory environment as well as capacity and capability enhancement of the municipality (institution) and municipal officials (individual) to reduce red tape and promote SPLM’s BEAR endeavours for overall innovation-driven, sustainable and inclusive local economic development. All this is done in an effort to; improve Local Economic Development (LED) planning capacity, administrative economic development capacity within SLM, to improve the regulatory environment for the enablement of BEAR and to improve the ease of doing business by introducing new business application (and facilitation) modalities.