With respect to administration, the PoL said that officials interacted with officials responsible for municipalities at the provincial level and, at district level, individual municipalities were met with to reconcile their accounts. The PoL reported that figures indicated that the change in approach resulted in increased spending from 54 per cent to 59 per cent over the two-year period. The PoL said that the 4 per cent improvement was encouraging and it led to intensification of aggressive turnaround strategy.