The rapid assessment among others established best practice for rapid assessment of PSOs and produced a set of guidelines, best practices and checklist for the government to carry out rapid assessments in the future across a wide range of other PSOs. It identified lessons from the rationale of their establishment, their management, capacity and financing strategies, and provided recommendations on the form and function of PSOs in the future. The assessment brought suggestions for improvement to the attention of SAPI implementers; determined the value and worth of the SAPI interventions; and described the quality and effectiveness of the SAPI by documenting impact.