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Discuss challenges, risks, opportunities, and their impact on plans and performance
Description and analysis of the operating environment and the strategic context for the reporting period provide a frame of reference for readers to understand and assess the plans and results of the department.
Internal and external challenges, risks, and opportunities (including management and human resources capacity considerations) should be identified at the departmental level. Explanations of how these will affect plans and performance and how they will be addressed in delivering program activities or key programs and services are also essential.
Good practice: Discuss challenges, risks, opportunities, and their impact on plans and performance.
Why is the following a good practice? The risk analysis section provides a clear sense of the organization’s operating environment. Section I presents the key challenges, trends, and risks that shaped and impacted the department’s work. Section II of the DPR provides additional details on the specific risks that were addressed throughout the year.
Good practice example: Department of Justice DPR 2009–10
Discuss horizontal links
Increasingly, the work of federal organizations is done through horizontal partnerships and initiatives. Indicating the department’s involvement in horizontal partnerships and initiatives contributes to an understanding of the operating environment and guides readers to other sources of information on topics and issues of interest.
Important horizontal linkages and involvement in government-wide initiatives should therefore be identified, and their planning and performance implications should be explained.
Good practice: Discuss horizontal links.
Why is the following a good practice? In this example, the agency comprehensively presents horizontal initiatives for which it is the lead. Shared outcomes and targeted results to be achieved by all partners involved are itemized.
Good practice example: Public Health Agency of Canada DPR 2009–10 (Horizontal Initiatives Table).
