During the period under review, the Department set itself to develop and start the implementation of the Department's Intergrated Human Resource Plan that would cover areas like Human Resources capital needs going forward, individual strategies on human resource development, talent management, knowledge management, etc. The Department also wanted to develop and implement its communication strategy to ensure that it was able to establish its profile as a custodian of the country's mineral resources. It further set itself to implement an intergrated corporate branding and marketing campaign to profile its work.