Some municipalities reported that sector departments do participate in their integrated development plans (IDP), while other municipalities report that sector departments do not attend their IDP meetings. However, the sad fact is that, most of the sector departments, who attend IDP meetings do not make adequate contributions to these meetings. Alternatively, they send junior officials who can commit their departments to any function nor take authoritative decision to assist municipalities. Put differently, most sector departments who attend IDP meetings do so in order to appear as if they participate in these IDP meetings. Even worse, some of the sector departments who participate in IDP do not honour their commitments. Only few municipalities are happy with the participation of sector departments in their IDP forums. The Committees encourage sector departments to participate in IDP discussions because most of service delivery of any sector/ public entity happens in municipalities. The Committees are of the view that the Ministry in the Presidency for Performance Monitoring and Evaluation and the provincial and National Departments of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs are key partners to facilitate the provision of assistance by sector departments to municipalities including participation in the IDP and municipal turnaround Strategies.