. To facilitate the development of plans or delivery agreements for the cross cutting priorities, or outcomes of government and monitor and evaluate the implementation of these plans; . To assist the President to put in place performance agreements for each Minister; . To provide support to the President and Deputy President on Cabinet memorandum; . To monitor the performance of individual national and provincial government departments and municipalities; . To monitor frontline service delivery; . To carry out evaluations; . To promote good monitoring and evaluation practices in government; and . To produce government-wide M&E frameworks. Moreover, there is an additional mandate of managing the Presidential Hotline and evaluation. The purpose of the transfer of the function was to give effect to the focus of government on monitoring and evaluation by promoting interface between government and the citizens. Therefore, a revised Strategic Plan has been tabled in 2012 which included the additional mandate of managing the Presidential Hotline and evaluation, inputs from the Departments Internal Auditors and the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA), the refinement of outputs, indicators as well as the focus on evaluation.