The City of Johannesburg has made a number of very positive strides towards the achievement of Urban Transformation. This is evident in terms of the 2040 Growth and Development Strategy that has 10 Flagship programmes and IDP sub-programmes which demonstrates strides being made to cut across sectors. The Cities Support Programme assists the City of Johannesburg through the Capacity Support Implementation Plan (CSIP) which reflects support interventions such as alternatives for infrastructure financing; aligning medium and longer term planning technically and administratively developing and implementing an economic development strategy.