Corporate and Operational Planning, and Performance Reporting, and Review
We are implementing a significant process of organisational change which must be progressed at the same time as we conduct our everyday business. Appropriate strategic corporate planning was identified as critical for our success and has resulted in the development of the DIMA Plan 2006-07, that will be officially launched on 18 July 2006. The plan is the result of a significant amount of consultation between our Executive, staff, key stakeholders, and clients.
The plan is a high level document which provides strategic direction as we move into the future. It is also the basis for a cascading series of plans that will define work at the division, branch, and service delivery level. In essence, the plan provides a service focus for integrating policy, programmes, and delivery.
The plan clearly defines our purpose, strategic themes, core business processes, outcomes and outputs, and strategic priorities. It establishes a set of key actions designed to advance those strategic priorities, and also provides measures to enable us to assess progress in relation to these actions. Overarching the plan and associated plans are a defined set of leadership behaviours and organisational values that our staff understand and will put into practice.
In addition to the plan, we have been developing a strategic planning framework to integrate planning, budgeting, reporting, and risk assessment to ensure a cohesive, measurable approach to the way we do business.
To ensure line managers are provided with relevant information to monitor operational performance, we provide access to a large range of statistical reports. These reports are produced on request, and are also provided online and in hard copy at regular intervals.
External performance reporting is developed on an outcomes, outputs, and output component basis. Our activities deliver the following outputs:
- Output 1.1 Migration and temporary entry
- Output 1.2 Refugee and humanitarian entry and stay
- Output 1.3 Enforcement of immigration law
- Output 1.4 Safe haven
- Output 1.5 Offshore asylum seeker management
- Output 2.1 Settlement services
- Output 2.2 Translating and interpreting service
- Output 2.3 Australian citizenship
- Output 2.4 Promoting the benefits of cultural diversity.
As of 27 January 2006, responsibility for our former Outcome 3 – Innovative whole-of-government policy on Indigenous Affairs was transferred to the Department Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaCSIA) and is reported under their Portfolio Outcome 6.