The milestones towards achieving impact of the DG programmes are varied. Support to some upstream and downstream work in relation to the Africa Peer review Mechanism (APRM), Participatory Development Management (PDM) and the Alliance of Mayors' Initiative for Community Action on Aids at the Local Level (AMICCALL) has had significant impact on the all the 3 outcomes. However, the evaluation also found that the impact of DG programmes is sometimes reduced when initiatives are 'thin on the ground' and project resources (inputs) are dispersed too widely, such as in the case of Local Council Courts (LCC) and PDM. Regarding future planning, stakeholders stressed that UNDP should not do what everybody else does and must remain 'cutting edge' in its approach to governance work in order to affect real change. A central challenge is striking the right balance between advocating for democratic governance principle - and running the risk of alienating potential partners - and simply supporting the status quo through more 'traditional' kinds of governance projects