Departmental Strategic Objective: Socially and economically sustainable rural communities
For the next Spending Review period (CSR 07) effective from 2008-09 to 2010-11, each government department has developed a set of Departmental Strategic Objectives (DSOs). These set out a picture of what the department as a whole aims to achieve over the next three years and provides an overarching framework for performance management and progress reporting. The DSOs are equally important as PSAs and, like the PSAs, the DSOs will last for the period of the CSR until 2011.
A full list of the PSAs that Defra either leads or contributes to, along with our DSOs, is available.
Our vision of socially and economically sustainable rural communities will be achieved if we can be confident that we have achieved – and will continue to achieve - the following Intermediate Outcomes, namely that:
- The evidenced needs of rural people and communities are addressed through mainstream public policy and delivery (PDF 32 KB) : and
- Economic growth is supported in rural areas with the lowest levels of performance (PDF 25 KB).
[Further Background Information]
Intermediate Outcomes - Indicator status overview 2009:
Full document (PDF 796 KB) available to download or print.
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The evidenced needs of rural people and communities are addressed through mainstream public policy and delivery
- Educational Attainment
- Social Capital and Quality of Life
- Health
- Housing Need
- Crime
- Poverty and unemployment
Economic growth is supported in rural areas with the lowest levels of performance
Annexes
- Annex 1: Mainstreaming measure (PDF 16 KB)
- Annex 2: Productivity measure (PDF 35 KB)
DSO 8 Programme Board
The DSO 8 Programme Board focuses in the main on evidence-based priorities set out in the Defra Programme. Its main aims are to:
- Establish and maintain strategic oversight of the Programme, including programme-level financial management; monitoring, evaluation, communications and progress reporting;
- Consider and decide on the prioritisation of resource allocation within the programme in response to any policy change;
- Ensure the Programme Team properly discharges its functions.
DSO 8 Partnership Group
A Partnership Group (PG) has been set up with the purpose of filling a perceived gap in the programme governance by achieving wider and better engagement of stakeholder and partners with national, regional, local expertise, experience, involvement and/or interest in the programme. It publishes a newsletter reporting on the discussions at the group’s quarterly meetings.
- 26 February 2009 newsletter (PDF 73KB)
08 June 2009