Appendix C: Audit of the Departmental integrated operational planning process – Departmental integrated operational planning process

The chart describes three clusters of information which are successively aggregated to create the 2011-12 Departmental Operational Plan.

First cluster: The departmental priorities include operational and management priorities, which result into the development of branch operational plans for:

• The Healthy Environment and Consumer Safety Branch
• The Corporate Services Branch
• The First Nations and Inuit Health Branch
• The Chief Financial Officer Branch
• The Health Products and Food Branch
• The Public Affairs, Consultation and Communications Branch
• The Pest Management Regulatory Agency
• The Strategic Policy Branch
• The Regions and Programs Branch
• The Audit and Accountability Bureau

Second cluster: Various groups perform a quality assurance review of branch operational plans from the first cluster, including:

• The Chief Financial Officer Branch which reviews planned activities, performance measurement, risk management as well as assets and acquired services information;
• The Corporate Services Branch which reviews human resources, facilities and security, information management or information technology information;
• The Public Affairs, Consultation and Communications Branch which reviews public involvement information; and
• The Healthy Environment and Consumer Safety Branch which reviews sustainable development information.

Third cluster: After the quality assurance review described in the second cluster, the 2011-12 Departmental Operational Plan is developed and comprised of the following sections:

• A departmental overview including the Program Activity Architecture as well as a description of the governance structure.
• Departmental priorities including operational and management priorities, which are the same ones that were provided to branches in the first cluster to develop branch operational plans.
• The departmental funding profile which is presented by branch, strategic outcome, region and program activity. It includes initial budget allocations and revenues.
• The Departmental Operational Plan which is presented by strategic outcome, program activity and internal service and includes: key initiatives, human resources, performance measurement, information management or information technology, planned funding as well as assets and acquired services.
• Functional summaries in: human resources services, performance measurement, information management or information technology, investment planning, risk management, public involvement, sustainable development, facilities and security as well as assets and acquired services.