The new summary backlog-reporting module is developed within the MIG-MIS and will provide a facility or platform to capture backlog information at municipal level. At present sector departments supply the best available backlog information and this information is not quality assured at municipal level.

Benefits of the Backlog Reporting Module

The Backlog Reporting Module provides the following benefits and opportunities:

•    A platform or facility for municipalities to capture backlog information at local level;

•    Creates a culture of capturing local information at the source or community level.

•    Municipalities take ownership in capturing and maintaining backlog data within their respective municipal areas;

•    Baseline for service delivery is accessible via the MIG-MIS:

o Census data after re-determination in January 2006 is provided.

o Sector baseline for water, sanitation and electricity is provided.

o Municipal baseline for 2007 will be progressively developed as the municipality captures their backlog perspective on the MIG-MIS

•    All decision makers and personnel working with service delivery data will have three perspectives of the data namely;

o Census data view per municipality;

o Sector perspective;

o Municipal perspective

•    The MIG-MIS will play a crucial role in providing a facility where the data provided by the respective data custodians are maintained by the respective data custodians. In this way responsibility and accountability for information is maintained and encouraged amongst the respective data custodians.

•    Once-off data audits can be captured on the MIG-MIS by municipalities and can be used as a baseline by the municipalities. This will ensure that backlog studies commissioned by individual municipalities across the country are on-line and contribute to a municipal baseline.