The Education Portfolio and Select Committee delegations based their study tours to the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces on the "Call to Action" (-"Tirisano") of the Minister of Education, Prof K Asmal. The document outlining the objectives of the "Call to Action" was distributed by the national education department to members of the provincial legislatures, Education Directors, school principals and the media. The delegations emphasised that since the "Tirisano" document was based on an extensive consultation of the Minister with a large variety of stakeholders, that there was no need to re-invent the wheel by searching for other criteria on which to base the visit of the delegations to the provinces.