CMRA- The Centre for Municipal Research and Advice is an initiative of two associations of municipalities, SALGA-the South African Local Government Association and VNG-I -the International Cooperation Agency of the Association of Netherlands Municipalities. 

CMRA is a dynamic research and consultancy company established in October 2005. CMRA is established with the mission of "strengthening democratic local governments in Southern Africa" and does that by assisting municipalities to find practical solutions to critical challenges through research, support (imparting knowledge and sustainable skills) and advice.

Our core team is a group of talented professionals based in our Pretoria office. Our full time staff members operate from our home office in Pretoria while project coordinators are placed at the municipalities where our 3-year HIV/AIDS project is being implemented. Besides our fulltime staff, we maintain a database of local government experts in various fields. This database provides CMRA the opportunity to allocate high level experts to assignments that need specific in-depth understanding,skills and experience. Interested experts in the field of local government may submit their CV's to Lnaid@cmra.org.za