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USDA Strategic Plan
and FNS
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Federal Departments are required to
prepare five-year strategic plans that
identify their key goals and objectives,
their strategies for attaining them, and
measures of progress. USDA's
most recent strategic plan, covering
2010-2015, was released in June 2010. It
is available on the web at http://www.ocfo.usda.gov/usdasp/sp2010/sp2010.pdf.
USDA’s Strategic Goal 4, “Ensure
that all of America's children have
access to safe, nutritious and balanced
meals,”
sets out the major objectives for the 15
Federal nutrition assistance programs
administered by the Food and Nutrition
Service – programs designed to work
together to improve food security and
diet quality for children and low-income
people throughout the United States. Goal
4 includes performance measures that
assess progress with regard to these
outcomes.
The work of the
Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services
mission area is captured under Goal 4’s
two supporting objectives.
Objective 4.1: Increase Access to
Nutritious Food, representing FNS’s efforts to reduce
and prevent hunger by providing
food-based nutrition assistance program
benefits.
Objective 4.2: Promote Healthy
Diet and Physical Activity Behaviors, representing the work of
FNS, along with its sister agency, the
Center for Nutrition Policy and
Promotion (CNPP), to support and
encourage healthful diets through
state-of-the art, science-based
nutrition guidance and information, and
strong nutrient standards and nutrition
education.
USDA's strategic plan provides an
organizing structure for a corporate
priority-setting process that promotes
focused and effective management of
scarce administrative resources.
To ensure accountability, these
priorities are linked to the performance
standards of Agency staff.
FNS planned priorities for FY
2010 include:
Objective
4.1: Increase Access to Nutritious Food
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End
Childhood Hunger by 2015:
Develop and advance Administration
strategy to use Federal nutrition
assistance programs to end child
hunger by 2015.
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Promote
Food Safety in FNS Programs:
Ensure and enhance the safety of
food provided through the nutrition
assistance programs.
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Continue
Modernizing FNS Programs:
Determine and monitor how
modernization of nutrition
assistance program operations is
working in States across the nation,
and ensure that such efforts
enhance, rather than impair, program
access and effectiveness.
Objective
4.2: Promote Healthy Diet and Physical
Activity Behaviors
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Expand
the Farm to School Connection:
Expand the farm to school connection
by connecting nutrition assistance
programs to local producers.
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Develop
a Comprehensive National Effort to
Reduce Obesity: Promote healthy
eating and physical activity
behaviors across nutrition
assistance programs and to the
public.
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Make
Nutrition Education More Effective:
Ensure that nutrition education and
promotion strategies used by FNCS
are based on strong science.
General
- Supportive of All Goal 4
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Enact
a Groundbreaking Child Nutrition and
WIC Reauthorization: Advance
administration priorities to
increase access, improve nutrition
and reduce obesity through the Child
Nutrition/WIC reauthorization
process.
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Implement
FY 2010 Agriculture Appropriation
Bill: Implement new nutrition
assistance-related grants and
demonstrations, policy changes and
program expansions authorized and
funded by the 2010 Agriculture
Appropriations Bill (P.L. 111-80).
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Honor
Civil Rights Throughout FNS
Programs: Strengthen civil
rights in both Federal program
delivery and employment by fully
integrating civil rights within FNS
offices, standardizing key
processes, and improving efficiency
through nationally-managed strategic
performance evaluations.
Click
here for a brochure explaining FNS's
planning system, its priorities for the
current fiscal year, and their
relationship to the USDA Strategic Plan
2010-2015.
Frequently
Asked Questions:
Annual
Performance Plans and Reports
Each year, the Department prepares as
part of its budget an Annual
Performance Plan (APP) that
explains the annual performance goals,
derived from the five-year strategic
plan, that each intends to pursue for
the year, and links them to agency
resources. Click on the links below to
download the USDA Budget Summary and APP
in PDF format:
USDA also prepares Performance
and Accountability Reports (PARs)
for submission to the President and
Congress that document and assess
program performance in relation to the
goals set in the APP. Click on the links
below to download these reports in PDF
format:
We welcome your comments or questions
about our planning system. Click here to send an e-mail to FNS.
Last modified: 11/30/2011
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