The NYDA Board (the Board) reported to the Committee on their priorities and key strategic shifts for the NYDA. The presentation provided an overview of the NYDA's vision, mandate and key programme areas and thereafter focused on the Board's interventions in the medium term informed by the Act. The presentation highlighted key performance areas which were going to be streamlined during the revision and review of the Annual Performance Plan (APP) of the NYDA for the 2013/14 financial year in order to gain the public confidence and the extension for APP submission was therefore requested and granted by the Minister. Furthermore, the Chairperson of the Board in his presentation indicated that Key Performance Areas (KPA) were going be reduced from 10 to 5, while Key Performance Indicators would be reduced from 72 to 27 in order to make performance measurement to be more realistic.