The Portfolio Committee noted the difficulty in assessing the overarching picture when a strategic plan was narrowly conceptualised within the required prescripts. A comparison was made with the creativity of the Department of Water Affairs, which had used a creative approach in the form of highlighting the most important indicators with the use of a dashboard approach. This provided a concise overview of the activities of the Department of Water Affairs over the medium term, as well as making it easy to track the progress of each target relative to its concomitant indicator. Furthermore, the Department of Water Affairs also allowed for a tracking, as well as monitoring and evaluation mechanism, on specific indicators and targets, which could indicate the efficacy of each of its programmes. The Portfolio Committee requested the Department to follow the model (dashboard approach) utilised by the Department of Water Affairs in drafting indicators and targets for its strategic plan in future years.