The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) initiated alternatives to augment and complement the management of additional budget over the MTEF period. In striving to achieve clean audits and good financial management in municipalities by 2014, the department has launched Operation Clean Audit campaign. A key objective of this campaign will be that of building and ensuring prudent financial management of public resources in municipalities. The Department will also launch a programme aimed at improving revenue enhancement in municipalities. Presently, municipalities are owed between R50 to R53 billion by residents, businesses and other government departments. This programme of revenue enhancement will assist municipalities to become more financially viable as they seek to accelerate the roll-out of their service delivery programmes. The Department is also establishing a programme that will allow close monitoring of funds that are allocated to municipalities for infrastructure development. The main objective of the latter programme is to ascertain if government is deriving value-for-money from the scarce funds allocated to municipalities. CoGTA indicated that the MIG faces some challenges. These include MIG funds being consumed by bank overdrafts of certain municipalities, some legislative impediments, poor and weak capacity in planning, project management and financial management in some municipalities, and lack of continuity and sustainability in municipal management.