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Strategic Goals and Objectives
Link to Agency Strategic Goals
The strategy fully supports all six of the Agency's strategic goals. The first goal, Encourage Economic Growth and Agricultural Development, is specifically targeted by Strategic Objective 1. The strategic objective (SO) is designed to encourage broad-based economic growth and agricultural development through expansion of a second set of economic reforms, which would assist in ensuring the inclusion of at least half of India's remaining poor in the economic process that has lifted so many out of poverty in the last decade.
The second goal, Strengthen Democracy and Good Governance, is a specific objective of both SO 1 and SO 5, as well as a cross-cutting theme. The strategy identifies governance as a key element in ensuring that any economic and social gains won through strategic interventions are enduring.
USAID's third goal, Build Human Capacity through Education and Training, is one of the objectives of SO 5. The SO will target out-of-school children of marginalized groups and girl children for bridging education that will prepare them for re-entry into mainstream educational systems.
The Agency's fourth goal, Stabilize World Population and Protect Human Health, is the specific focus of SO 2. The SO is aimed at reducing population growth and providing reproductive health interventions, as well as interventions in infectious diseases in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal, the combined populations of which approach 170 million people. HIV/AIDS and other opportunistic infections are targeted in the states of Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, the states with the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence rates in India .
The fifth Agency goal, Protect the Environment for Long-Term Sustainability, is the focus of SO 4. This SO targets sustainability and environmental concerns by identifying and proposing solutions for the looming water and energy crisis in India .
The sixth Agency goal, Promote Humanitarian Assistance, is the focus of SO 3. This SO is aimed at reducing vulnerability to disasters in high risk areas of India . Activities will include assisting the GOI with disaster preparation, responding to emergencies should they occur, and promoting rehabilitation in a manner that mitigates future losses in disasters.
Links to US Mission Program Goals
The strategy strongly supports the Mission Performance Plan (MPP) and underscores both its economic and social advancement goals. USAID will contribute to achieving the US Mission's overall objectives in nine goal areas:
- Open markets-by reforming financial markets and the power sector, liberalizing the economy and expanding dialogue on commercial and energy issues;
- US exports-by facilitating a productive business climate and adequate infrastructure for US enterprises and services;
- Regional stability-by encouraging the sharing of water and energy resources between India and her neighbors;
- Economic development-by promoting broad-based, equitable growth in India 's economy;
- Democracy-by fostering human rights and access to justice. By using information technology and other tools to facilitate more transparent and accountable institutional practices. And, by raising the status of women and girls through education and economic opportunities, anti-trafficking, and raising awareness about domestic violence;
- Population-by slowing the growth of a burgeoning population through family planning and reproductive health services;
- Environment-by promoting energy efficiency and conserving the natural resources essential for sustainable growth;
- Health-by stemming the spread and impact of global public health threats such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and polio; and
- Humanitarian assistance-by preventing and minimizing the effects of man-made or natural disasters, and providing life-saving assistance in emergencies.
The Strategic Objectives
The strategy is composed of a development goal, five strategic objectives and their associated intermediate results. Three SOs build on previous strategic involvement in the sectors of economic growth, energy and water, and health, while two-disaster relief and opportunities for vulnerable people-represent not completely new areas but ones in which USAID has less of a history than the others. Each strategic objective contains intermediate results that are intended to be the medium-term steps in achieving the ultimate objective.
The Strategic Framework
A graphic representation of the strategic framework provides the major elements of the plan.
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