MAV Strategic Plan - Shaping Our Future
MAV Strategic Plan 2024-2027
The MAV Strategic Plan 2024-2027 ‘Shaping our Future’ highlights how we will help Victorian councils innovate, adapt and thrive as we work to build a more resilient and sustainable Victoria.
The Plan includes the following enabling priorities, or areas of focus, to shape our actions:
- Active local democracy
- Connected places
- Health & wellbeing
- Sustainable economy
- FutureGen
- First Peoples local government relations
- Climate & regenerative design
- Diversity, equity & inclusion
- Resilience & recovery
- Intergenerational infrastructure.
The MAV’s Strategic Plan 2024-2027 is an invitation for all stakeholders to join with us in a shared mission to shape a better Victoria.
MAV Annual Plan
Each year the MAV Annual Plan identifies the actions we will take to deliver the outcomes of our Strategic Plan. Each Annual Plan includes more details of the individual activities we will undertake, and how we will undertake them.
Monitoring our Progress and Impact
MAV Annual Report 2024-25
The MAV Annual Report 2024–25 highlights the MAV’s growing impact as Victoria’s peak body for local government, highlighting the strategic advocacy, sector-wide collaboration and ambitious new initiatives the MAV continued to undertake throughout 2024-25, all aligned to our strategic plan, 'Shaping our Future' (2024 - 2027).
This important work is strengthening the foundations of local democracy and shaping better outcomes for every Victorian community.
This report outlines how we continue to work towards our outlined purpose to mobilise action that empowers councils to build thriving, inclusive, climate-resilient places.
Continuing our work under our strategic plan, Shaping Our Future (2024–2027), we worked hard to transform how the MAV partners with the sector and other important stakeholders.

Previous Annual Reports
- MAV Annual Report 2023-24 (PDF - 22.4MB)
- MAV Annual Report 2022-23 (PDF - 9.0MB)
- MAV Annual Report 2021-22
- MAV Annual Report 2020-21
- MAV Annual Report 2019-20
- MAV Annual Report 2018-19 (PDF - 11.5MB)
- MAV Annual Report 2017-18 (PDF - 9.91MB)
- MAV Annual Report 2016-17 (PDF - 6.2MB)