The mission of the Eastern Cape Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs is to promote a developmental local state and traditional institutions that are accountable, focused on citizen’s priorities, capable of delivering high quality services consistently and sustainably through cooperative governance and participatory democracy.

The Department’s strategic goals are: to be an enabling environment to enhance service delivery through integrated support services; to strengthen municipal institutional capacity to promote governance and effective service delivery; effective and efficient planning and development in municipalities; liveable integrated cities, towns and rural areas that provide basic income security; to have enabling viable sustainable developmental municipalities that deliver basic services; and an enabling service environment in traditional leadership institutions to improve socio-economic development through integrated support services.