Delivery strategy: Delivery policy & strategy
Defra's overarching challenge is to enable everyone to live within our environmental means. This is most clearly exemplified by the need to:
Central to achieving these goals will be reducing the environmental impact of the lifestyles we lead, the products that the country’s economy produces and consumes, and the waste we produce. We also need to reduce the global impact of our food production and consumption, improving the contribution that a profitable and competitive farming industry in this country can make to our environment. The outcomes that Defra is seeking to achieve through the new targets set by the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review will be realised through a range of ambitious policies and measures. Defra will ensure that these measures are put in place working with other Whitehall departments, the Devolved Administrations,agencies and our network partners.
Defra can only achieve these aims by working in partnership with our delivery network and we are committed to building on and developing the work already done.
The Delivery Network Support team is committed to supporting our delivery network partners in promoting these aims.
For information and background about Defra's objectives
How will Defra do this?
Defra's 2003 Delivery Strategy set out a vision for core Defra and the delivery landscape which established the core principles:
In effect, this means that Defra's job is to ensure that its objectives are deliverable and delivered, but not to deliver them itself.
- Defra's 2003 Delivery Strategy (PDF 60 KB)
The Partnership Model
The Delivery Strategy set out a model for partnership between policy makers and deliverers, which describes the distinct responsibilities of both, and the principles which should underpin the relationship. It identified five key principles which embed collaborative working, strong communications and clear accountabilities between policy and delivery. These are:
1. deliverers effectively involved in policy development and decision-making.
2. outcomes and targets agreed with deliverers before publication.
3. policy rationale understood and championed by both.
4. deliverers empowered to get on with delivery, held to account by monitoring, audit, inspection.
5. strong two-way communication - deliverers reporting back regularly to policy on the achievement of outcomes
The partnership model and key principles form the basis of all partnership agreements between core Defra and the network.
Defra's role in the Partnership Model
Defra is responsible for:
The Delivery Network
The Defra Delivery Network is a substantial, diverse, comprehensive set of delivery partners linked to the Departmental core which is vital to the achievement of Defra and the Government’s overarching aims.
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Page last modified:
18 August 2008
Page published: 25 June 2004