The Department of Cooperative Governance (DCoG) provided the Appropriations Committees with an overview of key focus areas and budget priorities over the 2011 MTEF that will contribute to the national priority outcome 9: "A responsible, accountable, effective and efficient local government system". Key strategies and programmes proposed by the Department for the 2011 MTEF include: a differentiated approach to supporting local government (i.e. covering aspects of finance, services and labour), propose a single window of coordination, support to municipal finance and administration capability, propose a refined ward committee model to deepen democracy, improved support to human settlements outcomes, implementation of the community work programme and accelerated access to basic services.