3.1.16 The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) claimed that it was assisting municipalities with technical skills and funding. Through the Siyenza Manje programme, DBSA reported that it recruited scarce (technical) skills from neighbouring countries in order to provide municipalities with these limited technical skills. DBSA advised that, because technical skills are scarce in Mpumalanga, municipalities may want to explore option of sharing these skills instead of head-hunting these skills from one another. The Committee is of the view that the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs has an important role to play in terms of facilitating these sharing schemes.