The Stormont Executive has agreed a draft programme for government, seven months after it was reformed after a period of collapse.
The plan was signed off at a meeting today and will be presented to the Assembly on Monday.
There had been criticism of the length of time taken to agree on it.
A Programme for Government is set by the devolved administrations as the means of agreeing priorities.
There are nine listed in the plan.
They are growing the economy, providing more affordable childcare; cutting waiting lists; ending violence against women and girls, improving housing; providing safer communities; protecting Lough Neagh and the environment and transforming public services.
First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she was pleased with the outcome of the negotiations.
Deputy First Minister Emma Little Pengelly, promised transparent, measurable indicators so the public could assess if progress was being made.
Ms O'Neill said the programme was more tightly focused to take account of the shorter mandate - which has only 3 years remaining - and a very difficult budgetary position.
It can prove difficult to find consensus in a four party mandatory coalition involving unionists and nationalists. The last time one was implemented was for the period 2011-2015.
They also agreed one in 2016, but power sharing collapsed while it was out for consultation.
When it was restored in 2020, Covid had become the focus.
An independent Belfast based think-tank Pivotal has published a report on the performance of the Stormont Executive since its return.
It said some progress has been made that would not have been possible without the return of devolved government.
But its director Ann Watt said the failure to agree a programme for government had been a "significant concern".
"Many areas of policy are cross-departmental. Ideally a Programme for Government would be agreed, and then a budget passed with money allocated to specific policies.
"Instead the Executive has given money to individual departments, echoing the silo working of the past."
Stormont faces a range of critical issues to deal with.
They include NHS reform, education spending, major problems with special educational needs provision and challenges caused by historic underinvestment in water treatment.
