USDA Strategic Plan
and FNS
All
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.
We welcome your comments or questions
about our planning system. Click here to send an e-mail to FNS.
Last modified:
10/24/2012
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