Although the 2030 Agenda commits to an integrated and balanced approach to  achieve sustainable development regarding horizontal and vertical integration,  little attention had been given to policy synergies and trade-offs. During the audit,  analysis of the interviews indicated that there was no policy coherence, as a result  in policy coherence review exercise not being done. From the audit analysis,  review and assessment of the existing policies across the country had not been  undertaken to manage trade- offs and balance conflicting policy priorities.  Therefore, the Ministries still operated in silos and, or with standalone policies.  For instance, the Youth Development Fund Programme, Women Empowerment  Programme  and  Livestock  Infrastructure  Management  and  Integrated  Development Programme are operating under isolated policies although they  serve the same clients. Further, the analysis of the interviews revealed that the  absence of policy coherence was due to the fact that initially prioritisation and or  more effort was on sensitisation and awareness creation of SDGs therefore focus  on policy assessment and alignment across sectors had not taken place.  Therefore, there was a high risk of duplication of services offered by these  programmes under different policies. If the Ministries continue to operate with disintegrated policies, there will be  continued duplications and overlaps of policies which will ultimately stretch the  limited resources at Government disposal. This will also defeat the 2030 Agenda  intent of Whole of Government Approach (WoG). The OAG is well aware that the  development of policy coherence is not an end in itself but rather a means to  achieving certain objectives, therefore there will be need to better integrate public  policies in all areas to address overlaps.  On the other hand, vertical integration which is across levels of Government was  done. At local level SDGs were integrated into the District and Urban Plans, thus  districts and towns became part of the Institutional arrangements for SDG  implementation. 13 