The O R Tambo District Municipality signed the Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of Public Works in 2006. This project is under the Vukuphile learnership programme. The project started in June 2009. The initial contract with the 15 contractors who were awarded the tender by the District Municipality required construction of 515 VIP toilets per contractor and at the value of R3, 1 million per contractor. Specifications changed as the size of the toilets needed to be increased which means extra costs and that reduced the number of toilets to be constructed by each contractor to 414 structures. Training was provided for both the contractors and the supervisors. The supervisors received technical training equivalent to NQF level 4 and the Contractors received managerial training equivalent to NQF level 2. In learnership programmes prices get negotiated unlike the normal tendering process. The learners are paid R65.00 per day.