Integrated Development Planning (referred to commonly as IDP in this article) is a process which is informed by a legal framework, and thus constitutes an imperative for long term planning which requires skilled municipal officials to manage it. The role of university is critical to create and enhance the human resource capital. However, universities in general were in the past criticized for failing to provide practical innovative skills and orientation of its educational offerings in the work place. All of this have changed in the past decade due to the new education landscape crafted in 2004 which amongst others, configured and merged the Higher Educational Institutions and continues to dictate them to be skills oriented in respond to training needs. The Council on Higher Education is the custodian of education offerings in all registered higher educational institutions with the Department of Education; as such the programmes and