e) Programme 5: Skills Development The purpose of this programme was to promote and monitor the National Skills Development Strategy (NSDS III). Within this programme, and for the 2011/12 financial year, the Department reported the following: . The National Artisan Moderation Body (NAMB) was partly operationalised and appointed as the first assessment quality partner for the QCTO. . 13 168 Artisan learners completed training nationally. . The Skills conference on the deepening of understating of the NSDS III was convened. . SETA levies were managed and disbursed on a monthly basis. . New SETA landscape and establishment of SETAs were published in the government gazette . Challenges of the programme included; staff vacancies at INDLELA; Regular breakdown of IT services due to cable theft limited the efficiency of INDLELA operations and, the delay in the provision of advice on the Annual Performance against the NSDS III by the National Skills Authority (NSA).