The Integrated Development Plan is a comprehensive document setting out how the municipality intends to tackle its development challenges. It is on the basis of this plan that the resources of the municipality are allocated and on which the budget is based.

More than this, however, the IDP is intended to set the direction for the development of Musina - a direction that the municipality can only follow through by working together with national and provincial government, the private sector, community organisations and the citizens of Musina.