MILE is a knowledge management initiative of the eThekwini Municipality that was established to position Durban as a city of learning.
The Municipal Institute of Learning (MILE), which is being run as a five-year pilot programme, has the following strategic objectives:
1.To facilitate the enhancement of professional and technical capacity of local government professionals on the African continent;
2.To position the eThekwini Municipality as a platform for innovating, learning and sharing with other municipalities, associations and networks, both locally and internationally;
3.To leverage partnerships with tertiary institutions in order to promote collaborative research programmes that will ultimately improve the effectiveness of local government;
4.To provide a municipal technical support service to other municipalities in an empowering and innovative manner; and
5.To co-ordinate the internal knowledge management agenda within the eThekwini Municipality.
To support African municipalities with capacity and knowledge in order to be effective in the delivery of local government’s old and new core competencies.
In line with our Vision, the purpose of MILE is to help enhance the capacity of
professionals working in local government on the continent (and beyond), to respond more effectively to meeting the continuum of developmental local government challenges – from getting the basics right, to effectively dealing with contemporary global challenges such as climate change.
