The Garden Route District Municipality as a Category C Local Authority strives to deliver on its mandate through: • Unlocking Resources for equitable, prosperous and sustainable development; • Providing a platform for coordination of bulk infrastructure planning across the District; • Providing strategic leadership towards inclusive /radical/rigorous socio-economic change; • Transformation to address social economic and spatial injustice; • Redressing inequalities and access to ensure inclusive services, information and opportunities for all citizens of the District; • Initiating funding mobilisation initiatives/programmes to ensure financial sustainability; and • Co-ordinating and facilitating social development initiatives.