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Infrastructure, viz public buildings, roads, water and sewerage systems, electricity and other services, supports quality of life and is the foundation of a healthy economy. The blueprint for a new South African Economy, the Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa (ASGISA), places maintenance high on the developmental agenda as a key to sustainable development and economic growth.

The stock of infrastructure that is owned by government and its agencies is already major and is increasing at a rapid rate. However the maintenance of this stock varies greatly from sector to sector, and, sometimes, also from institution to institution within a sector. Specific sectors have their own unique challenges.

The National Infrastructure Maintenance Strategy (NIMS) is a co-ordinated programme of actions that is an essential part of government's vision of delivering infrastructure services to all. It was approved by Cabinet on 23 August 2006, and provides the proposed institutional arrangements for facilitating and managing the NIMS programme, key work components and task teams to address the actions set down withing NIMS and a summary timetable for mobilizing the programme.