The Department of Basic Education should take an active oversight and monitoring role over all its planned and current projects in order to eliminate delays and to ensure compliance with supply chain management processes and subsequently improvement in service delivery. The National Department of Basic Education should ensure that national norms and standards for infrastructure are developed and implemented. The National Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, the National Department of Public Works, the Public Service Commission and the National Treasury should ensure that their respective provincial departments implement these resolutions as well as resolutions from provincial standing committees on public accounts (provincial SCOPAs).