The major role of the EDD included the convening of meetings of the PICC Council, the Management Committee and rendering Secretariat support. The EDD will monitor and prepare quarterly updates, provide oversight of the 18 Strategic Integrated Projects (SIPs). The quarterly reports will give update levels of implementation, spending and jobs. The EDD will further coordinate information to develop Skills Plans for every SIP and aggregate these into a National Skills Plan. The EDD was also charged with working with the IDC on localisation plans for every SIP; collecting and analysing data on quarterly infrastructure spending by key Public Agencies, Provinces, Metros and National Departments for Cabinet to consider. Most importantly, the EDD had to identify blockages in implementation and make recommendations to the PICC and Cabinet. EDD monitors worked to deepen the 20 year project pipeline by ensuring proposals were subjected to feasibility processes and that the necessary timelines were developed.