The delivery agreements - which we can call DA in honour of the Leader of the Opposition! - described outputs, activities, and inputs required to achieve the outcomes. They also set targets for measurable performance indicators, and identified roles and responsibilities of individual departments, both national and provincial, including municipalities. They are a major achievement in that for the first time we have a set of interdepartmental and intergovernmental strategic plans for key cross- cutting outcomes. The process of producing these plans or delivery agreements was itself useful. It resulted in a higher level of understanding of challenges which other departments face, and how the work of different departments affects one another.