INCA Portfolio Managers

10/06/2025

The INCA Capacity Building Fund hosted 37 Municipal Managers and Chief Fianancial Officers at the 17th Annual Summer School held from 2 - 4 June in Sandton.

Together with its partners State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and Agence Francaise de Developpement
(AFD), INCA Portfolio Managers developed this years programme around challenges and opportunities that will be faced by municipalities over the next five years.

After reflecting on the macro economic challenges, limited growth prospects and the resulting fiscal consequences,
the change in the electricity services dispensation, the role of leadership in the administration and at political level, as well as the importance of partnerships between the municipality, private sector and communities,was highlighted.

In closing the Executive Mayor of CapeTown also shared some lessons to be learnt from the City’s plan of actions and vision.

18/06/2024

IPM’s CEO, Attie van Zyl, was part of a very successful Study Tour of South African municipal CFO’s to Switzerland. 🇨🇭 This Tour was a follow up on the Summer School held earlier this year in February. This interactive learning experience hosted by SECO, was made possible by the INCA Capacity Building Fund.

17/11/2023

Our mission is to help municipalities towards financial sustainability. When is a municipality financially sustainable? Only when it fully recovers its costs through revenue, and when sufficient cash is available to fund liabilities, operations and investments in infrastructure and other assets. IPM’s new tariff model web application helps municipalities to determine cost reflective tariffs for their different services to citizens. Our long-term financial model already helps municipalities to plan for this at an aggregate level. This new application helps to calculate tariffs by customer categories, and by block / level of usage for each service. It also calculates property tariffs. Cost reflective tariffs will help to fund the municipality towards financial sustainability, as planned for in their long-term financial modeling and plan.

15/11/2023

18/10/2023

18/10/2023

On 29th September INCA Portfolio Managers hosted Gauteng Provincial Treasury at a one day seminar on Long Term Financial Modelling for strategies and Long-Term Financial Modelling for municipalities. The seminar delegates concluded that municipalities should use integrated models to quantify policy choices and the financial impact of changes in the external environment.

IPM is currently the leading service provider in this field.

14/04/2023

We find this quite informative and a clear indication of the shaping of politics in all spheres of government in SA going forward.

Judge Dennis Davis, a panel of experts and a audience discuss coalition chaos - is this the future of South Africa?

23/11/2022

INCA Capacity Building Fund (ICBF) held its 16th Local Government Summer School from the 21st to 23rd November 2022 in Pretoria, which was attended by Municipal Managers and Chief Financial Officers from around the country. This prestigous event, which was sponsored by State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), covered critical topics such as Political Governance in a coalition environment, Water & Sanitation, Electricity and Data Management. IPM, along with its two partners in ICBF - SECO and AFD (Agence Française de Développement), are proud to have hosted this successful event.

08/04/2022

07 April 2022 - MasterClass for Municipal Executives

INCA Capacity Building Fund (ICBF) hosted a successful MasterClass for Municipal Executives to introduce Municipal Managers and CFO's of local and district municipalities in the Western Cape to a Long Term Financial Model (LTFM) developed by INCA Portfolio Managers. This online, web enabled platform underpins a municipality's Long Term Financial Strategy and will enable the municipality to quantify key policy choices and the impact of changes in the external environment on the financial sustainability of the municipality.

15/07/2021

Today IPM, along with its cooperating partners AFD and SECO, officially launched the INCA Municipal Debt Fund (IMDF) by way of a Webinar. The video below is an executive summary of this new initiative.