OBJECTIVES

STRATEGIES

MAJOR TASKS

PERFORMANCE MEASURES

PHYSICAL TARGETS/RESOURCES

QTR. 1
(000)

QTR. 2
(000)

QTR. 3
(000)

QTR. 4
(000)

QUARANTINE

.

To protect the local animal and human population by preventing the entry and establishment of exotic animal/zoonotic diseases and to enhance food safety.

To administer and implement an effective and efficient Veterinary Quarantine Programme which involves operating the Animal Quarantine Station and Port of Entry Surveillance

Timely processing of Customs Entries

Conduct port surveillance

To issue Veterinary Import Permits.

To issue Veterinary Export Health Certificates.

Evaluate and approve Customs Entries.

Ships and aircrafts inspected.

Cargo aboard vessels inspected.

Disposal of international garbage supervised.

Permits applications accepted   and reviewed.

Import permit applications approved or refused.

Processing facilities and live animals inspected.

Products tested

Customs Entries processed

120 Aircrafts and 80 ships. 

Consignments inspection

4000 permits

10 Facilites and 12 Inspection visits 

120 health certificates
1200 Customs
Entries

120 Aircrafts and 80 ships. 

6000 permits

10 Facilites and 12 Inspection visits 

120 health certificates
1500 Customs Entries

120 Aircrafts and 80 ships. 

6000 permits

10 Facilites and 12 Inspection visits 

120 health certificates
1500 Customs Entries

120 Aircrafts and 80 ships. 

4000 permits

10 Facilites and 12 Inspection visits 

120 health certificates
1200 Customs Entries

QUARANTINE
(cont’d)

Landing of live imported animals.

Animals inspected and landed.
Animals accepted into the Quarantine Station.

Baby chicks inspected and landed

Twenty (40) animals landed.

Twenty (40) animals quarantined.

100,000 baby chicks

Sixty (60) animals landed.

Sixty (60) animals quarantined.

100,000 baby chicks

Seventy (70) animals landed.

Seventy (70) animals quarantined.

100,000 baby chicks

Seventy (70) animals landed.

Seventy (70) animals quarantined.

100,000 baby chicks

HUMAN RESOURCES, FINANCE, ADMINISTRATION

To provide efficient Administrative, Financial and Human Resource Services to internal and external customers

Implement an efficient   and effective Administrative Customer Services Unit

Assist in the recruitment of suitably qualified staff

Staffing needs ascertained.
Staff requests submitted to Personnel Unit.

Interviews arranged.
New staff receives orientation

Vacant posts filled 

Two (2) interviews

Orientation  for new staff

Vacant posts filled

Three (3) interviews

Orientation for new staff

Vacant posts filled

Four (4) interviews

Orientation for new staff

Vacant posts filled

Two (2) interviews

Orientation for new staff

 Staff Training

Training Needs Assessment

To co-ordinate staff welfare issues

Maintenance of properties and facilities.

Procurement of goods and services.

Training needs identified
and documented.

Training sourced and conducted.

Staff welfare needs identified.

Staff welfare issues addressed.

Outline of scheduled maintenance prepared.

List of goods and services completed.

Three (3) training courses identified.

Three (3) training courses sourced and to be conducted.

Four (4)

Two (2)

3000

2951

Three (3) training courses identified.

Three (3) training courses sourced and to be conducted.

Four (4)

Three (3)

3000

2951

Three (3) training courses identified.

Three (3) training courses sourced and to be conducted.

Four (4)

Four (4)

3000

2951

Two (2) training courses identified.

Two (2) training courses sourced and to be conducted.

Four (4

Four (4)

3000

2951

HUMAN RESOURCES, FINANCE, ADMINISTRATION

Budgetary/Corporate Planning

Collection of Revenue
To address Customers
Service Needs

Outline of programmes done.

Budget Summary completed
Invoices prepared and dispatched.

All monies collected and lodged.

Receipts issued for each payment received

Customers are served

Customers needs/requests addressed.

Monies lodged within one day

Receipts issued for each payment

2000 customers served

Monies lodged within one day

Receipts issued for each payment

2000 customers served

Monies lodged within one day

Receipts issued for each payment

2200 customers served

1500 customers served

FIELD

To enhance the Divisions capacity and capability to implement internationally acceptable Animal Health and Animal Disease Prevention, Eradication and Control Programmes

To develop and effectively implement animal health programmes, policies and strategies geared towards achieving objective of the Veterinary Services    Division.

To develop an animal disease surveillance programme.

Surveillance programme developed and implemented

Sampling protocols prepared.

Laboratory testing conducted.

Avian Influenza Surveillance Plan developed and implemented.

- Implement Bovine TB surveillance programme and Aquire Tuberculin.
- Implement Bovine Brucellosis surveillance programme.

-Avian Influenza sampling programme prepared.
-Avian Influenza investigation protocol prepared.

Samples from Avian Influenza surveillance programme submitted to the Veterinary Services Diagnostic Laboratory

Small Ruminant Surveillance Plan developed.

4000 cattle tested for  tuberculosis and brucellosis

Scrapie sampling programme prepared.

Samples from Avian Influenza surveillance submitted to the Veterinary Services Diagnostic Laboratory

Small Ruminant Surveillance Plan implemented.

4000 cattle tested for  tuberculosis and brucellosis

Samples from Scrapie surveillance submitted to the Veterinary Services Diagnostic Laboratory

2000 cattle tested for  tuberculosis and brucellosis

Samples from Scrapie surveillance submitted to the Veterinary Services Diagnostic Laboratory

To develop disease prevention programme.

To develop a livestock extension and veterinary clinical care programme

Animal population determined.

Vaccination protocols developed.

Major farming communities
identified and animal types/populations determined.

Farmers advised on good
animal husbandry practices.

Sick animals offered assistance from veterinarians and animal health technicians.

Registration of commercial poultry farms and population determined.

Registration of backyard poultry farmers in Clarendon and St. Catherine initiated.

Vaccination protocol for poultry farms prepared.

Identification of major farming communities and animal types initiated and database developed.

At least one Seminar on a topic related to good animal husbandry practices delivered.

Veterinary Services Division personnel responds to calls and animals treated within 24 hours of request.

GPS mapping of registered commercial poultry farms

Backyard poultry population in Clarendon and St. Catherine determined.

Identification./Registration of sheep farms initiated.

Major farming communities and animal types continued.  Data entered.

At least one Seminar on a topic related to good animal husbandry practices was delivered.

Veterinary Services Division personnel responds to calls and animals treated within 24 hours of request.

GPS mapping and registration of backyard farms in St. Catherine and Clarendon.

Sheep population determined and farms identified.

Major farming communities and animal types continued.  Data entered.

At least one Seminar on a topic related to good animal husbandry practices was delivered.

Veterinary Services Division personnel responds to calls and animals treated within 24 hours of request.

Registration of backyard poultry of other parishes initiated.

Major farming communities and animal types continued.  Data entered. 

At least one Seminar on a topic related to good animal husbandry practices was delivered.

Veterinary Services Division personnel responds to calls and animals treated within 24 hours of request.

LABORATORY

To establish and maintain a competent National Veterinary Laboratory which meets internationally acceptable standards.

To operate an internationally acceptable veterinary diagnostic laboratory capable of conducting analyses of biological, chemical and environmental samples to ensure health, safety and welfare of the populace.

Develop relevant laboratory protocols.

Develop residue and biochemical analysis programmes.

International laboratory testing protocols procured, obtained and acquired.

VSD SOPs created.

VSD SOPs validated and verified.

Residue Monitoring programmes developed.

Conch Monitoring programme developed.

Tilapia Testing Scheme developed.

Three (3) protocols acquired. 

Three (3) SOPs created.

Three (3) protocols validated.

540 tests
54 samples

120 samples
960 tests

60 samples
600 tests

Three (3) protocols acquired.

Three (3) SOPs created.

Three (3) protocols validated.

540 tests
54 samples

120 samples
960 tests

60 samples
600 tests

Three (3) protocols acquired.

Three (3) SOPs created.

Three (3) protocols validated.

540 tests
54 samples

120 samples
960 tests

60 samples
600 tests

Three (3) protocols acquired.

Three (3) SOPs created.

Three (3) protocols validated.

540 tests
54 samples

120 samples
960 tests

60 samples
600 tests

LABORATORY
(cont’d)

To conduct laboratory analyses.

Acquire Laboratory Accreditation

Samples collected and submitted to laboratory

Samples prepared and analyzed.

Samples analyzed and reports completed.

Scope of accreditation determined

Quality Assurance activities/Audits conducted.

Documentation prepared

800 Samples
received.

1600 Samples analyzed.

1600 Reports completed.

Accreditation tests determined.

One (1) internal audit conducted.

1 proficiency test

Management section of Quality Manual completed.

950 Samples received.

2000 Samples
Analyzed

2000 Samples
completed.

One (1) internal audit conducted.

1 proficiency test

Technical section of Quality  Manual completed.

1200 Samples received.

1600 Samples
received

1600 Samples
completed.

One (1) external audit conducted.

1 proficiency test

500 Samples
received.

1500 Samples received

1500 Samples completed

1 proficiency test

LABORATORY
(cont’d)

To establish a Molecular Biology Laboratory.

Building identified and repairs done.

Equipment and supplies list compiled.

Suppliers of equipment identified and items procured.

Staffing needs identified and interviews conducted.

Diagnostic samples received analyzed.

Thermocycler acquired

50 samples analyzed

Reagents acquired

50 samples analyzed

50 samples analyzed

50 samples analyzed.

ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION

To use the national Animal
Fertility/Artificial Insemination Programmes to enhance livestock (breed)
Development and increase productivity and also to establish a National Animal Identification system.

To enhance livestock development and productivity through animal fertility programmes.

To provide Artificial Insemination and animal fertility services to the livestock farming sector.

Stud animals kept healthy and tested for diseases.  Semen collected and stored.

Animals inseminated; adequate/relevant records maintained.

Liquid Nitrogen generated and made available.

Three thousand (3000) semen straws stored. 5050

Four hundred (400) inseminations done

Five hundred (500) litres of liquid nitrogen

Three thousand (3000) semen straws stored. 5050

Five hundred (500) inseminations done

Five hundred (500) litres of liquid nitrogen

Three thousand (3000) semen straw stored. 5050

Five hundred (500) inseminations done

Five hundred (500) litres of liquid nitrogen

Three thousand (3000) semen straws stored. 5050

Six hundred (600) inseminations done

Five hundred (500) litres of liquid nitrogen

DISEASE ERADICATION

To eradicate the New World Screwworm (Cochliomyia hominovorax) from Jamaica.

To eliminate the New World Screwworm from Jamaica using the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT)

To implement and sustain aerial dispersal of sterile screwworm flies and adequate field surveillance.

Consignments of sterile pupae received on designated days.

Sterile flies emerge from pupae.

Sterile flies dispersed along special grids.

House-to-house and Farm-to-farm visits conducted, animals examined and wounds treated.

Pamphlets produced and distributed to farmers and animal owners.

60
260M pupae

85%

220M sterile flies

7.81
15000 visits

4.895
5000 pamphlets
22.780

60
260M pupae

85%

220M sterile flies

11.38
15000 visits

6.965
5000 pamphlets
24.990

41
127M pupae

85%

109M sterile flies

7.26
15000 visits

6.007
5000 pamphlets
26.799

Administrative support to effect the efficient operation of the Programme

Staff Meetings

Project Coordination

Committee (PCC) Meetings

Minutes

Financial Reports etc.

Minutes

3  Minutes of meetings

Monthly ad-hoc reports
3 meetings

3 Minutes of meetings

Monthly ad-hoc reports
3 meetings

3 Minutes of  meetings

Monthly ad-hoc reports
3 meetings