If CBP is to achieve the outputs a set of requirements are required:

• The municipality (both politicians and senior management) must be committed to supporting an empowering planning process and supporting wards to implement afterwards;
• The municipality must establish a number of systems and structures to make this happen, including allocating funds for ward implementation of their plans;
• Councillors need to be supported and trained to understand the role they need to play;
• Ward facilitators (one per ward) need to be trained to facilitate the ward planning, supported by municipal facilitators;
• Before the planning starts preparatory (preplanning) meetings need to be held by the facilitators with ward committees, traditional leaders and other opinion leaders to explain their role, what will happen in the planning week, and to start the planning process;
• Councillors, ward committees and traditional leaders have to inform the community as to what is happening and mobilise people to attend the launch meeting and later planning meetings during the planning week, some in the day, and some in the evening (depending on what suits the majority of community members);
• Councillors and ward committees have to feed back to the wider community on the final draft plan, the amount of approved ward discretionary funds to support implementation and later what projects have been approved by the municipality;
• Councillors, ward committees and traditional leaders have to organise for implementation of the plan, and report back to the wider community and the municipality on progress through a monthly implementation, monitoring and evaluation forum to be established