Performance Audit Report on the Control of F MD CHAPTER 4  4.0 FINDINGS  4.1 PLANNING IN FMD CONTROL  4.1.1 STRATEGIC PLANNING  The Performance Management System (PMS) in the Public Service requires that  Ministries and their Departments develop strategic plans which articulate what  they would deliver to the public during the six-year planning period. 27 It was observed during the audit that the DVS had not developed a  comprehensive long-term departmental strategic plan. Such a plan could provide  a clear direction for the department’s FMD control efforts, identifying objectives  and strategies to accomplish those objectives as well as outlining measurable  goals supported with realistic, quantifiable benchmarks for monitoring and  evaluating the department’s overall performance in the long term. Instead, the  DVS developed several strategy documents such as the Fence Strategy, Fence  Maintenance Strategy, the 2014/2015 Annual Performance Plan, the 2013  Surveillance Plan as well as the Annual Disease Surveillance Plan October 2014- March 2016. Such strategies lacked clear and measurable time bound objectives.  While such documents were adequately relevant to FMD control, it was  important to integrate them into a comprehensive Departmental plan in the form  of a strategic plan, which could serve as a blue print of the DVS commitment to  delivering on its mandate. Absence of a Departmental Strategic Plan was  attributed to an oversight of management on the need for it (strategic plan). This  oversight emanated from consideration that there was already a Ministerial  Strategic Plan in place. However, it should be noted that such a plan was to a  considerable extent generic and lacking clear focus on critical aspects of the  mandate of the DVS such as disease control. $^{27}$ PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT IN THE BOTSWANA PUBLIC SERVICE- PUBLIC SERVICE REFORMS-BOTSWANA 23 |  P a g e