The 2011 Division of Revenue Bill has effected several changes to the conditional grant framework for provinces and municipalities. These changes are as follows: . the Infrastructure Grant to Provinces. In order to align planning and implementation with sector needs, and to reduce persistent backlogs, funds for this grant will now be transferred through three conditional grants - the Health Infrastructure Grant, the Education Infrastructure Grant and the Provincial Roads Maintenance Grant - on the votes of the departments of Health, Basic Education and Transport. These departments will work closely with Treasury to strengthen planning and organisational capacity at national and provincial level; . a new conditional grant, the School Infrastructure Backlogs Grant, is introduced for eradication of inappropriate school infrastructure; and provision of water, sanitation and electricity to schools. The programme will be completed over three years, after which the grant will be discontinued; . at the local government level, the merging of the Municipal Infrastructure Grant for cities and a portion of the Human Settlements Development Grant has resulted in the introduction of the Urban Settlements Development Grant. This is part of government's response to the differential operational and funding needs of large cities, small towns and rural areas. This merger will also allow the eight metropolitan municipalities to take a more integrated approach to upgrading urban informal settlements; and . in addition, the Provincial Disaster Grant and the Local Government Disaster Grant have been introduced under the National Disaster Management Centre to allow provinces and municipalities to respond more rapidly to disasters.