Performance Audit Report on the Control of F MD Without a strategic plan, the DVS could not adequately coordinate district level  planning to ensure its alignment with the overall organisational goals. A strategic  plan could have enabled the department to efficiently prioritize its resources and  could have also served as a baseline from which overall organisational progress  could be measured. The PMS requires that ministries develop action plans in the form of Annual  Performance Plans in line with strategic plans to define what they (ministries)  plan to achieve during a particular year. Review of documents revealed that the DVS had not adequately planned for  implementation of some important interventions and resolutions pertaining to  Foot and Mouth Disease Control. While the Department developed an Annual  Performance Plan (APP) for 2014/2015, the document did not adequately  capture some key initiatives the Department had endeavoured to embark on as  spelt out in different FMD strategy documents. In addition, those FMD strategy  documents lacked clear timelines for all deliverables which could have helped  the Department in monitoring implementation of its strategies as well as in  measuring progress. For instance, review of the Update on Strategies for  Combating Foot and Mouth Disease revealed that the document only listed the  DVS short and long-term interventions without specifying the timelines when  such interventions would be implemented and completed. In particular, the  document lacked specific timelines for implementation of the following strategic  interventions:   Expansion of FMD free zones   Commodity Based trade   Establishment of FMD vaccine Bank   Establishment of Disease Control Fund   Establishment of Protection Zones   Prioritised Disease Control Infrastructure Maintenance  24 |  P a g e 4.1.2 ACTION PLANNING 