Text description of Figure 1.2 : Department of Human Resources and Social Development - Program Activity Architecture

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The vision of HRSDC: Build a stronger and more competitive Canada, to support Canadians in making choices that help them live productive and rewarding lives and to improve Canadians' quality of life.

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HRSDC Program Activity Architecture

Level I of the Program Activity Architecture:

Strategic Outcomes (from left to right):

• Enhanced Canadian productivity and participation through efficient and inclusive labour markets, competitive workplaces and through access to learning.
• Safe, healthy, fair, stable, cooperative, productive workplaces and effective international labour standards.
• Enhanced income security, access to opportunities and well-being for individuals, families and children.
• Achieve better outcomes for Canadians through service excellence.

Level II of the Program Activity Architecture:

Program Activities (from left to right)

Three Program Activities contribute to the first Strategic Outcome: Labour Market, Workplace Skills, and Learning.

The Labour program activity contributes to the second Strategic Outcome.

Three Program Activities contribute to the third Strategic Outcome: Social investment, Children and Families, and Housing and Homelessness.

The Service Canada Program Activity contributes to the fourth Strategic Outcome.

Level III of the Program Activity Architecture

Sub-Activities (from left to right):

The following Sub-Activities are within the Labour Market Program Activity: Employment Insurance, and Labour Market Programs.

The following Sub-Activities are within the Workplace Skills Program Activity: Workplace Partnerships, Foreign Workers and Immigrants, Skills and Labour Market Information, Literacy and Essential Skills

The following Sub-Activities are within the Learning Program Activity: Student Financial Assistance, Canadian Education Savings Program, and International Academic Mobility.

The following Sub-Activities are within the Labour Program Activity: Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, National Labour Operations, International Labour Affairs, Workplace Policy and Information.

The following Sub-Activities are within the Social Investment Program Activity: Seniors and Pensions, Disability Program, Canada Pension Plan - Disability, Community Development and Partnerships.

The following Sub-Activities fall under the Children and Families Program Activity: Child Care, Multilateral Framework on Early Learning and Child Care, Early Childhood Development Agreement, and the National Child Benefit.

The following Sub-Activity falls under the Housing and Homelessness Program Activity: Homelessness Partnering Strategy.

The following Sub-Activities fall under the Service Canada Program Activity: Seamless, Citizen-Centered Service, Integrity, and Collaborative, Networked Government Service.

Level IV of the Program Activity Architecture

The Strategic Outcome: Policies and programs that meet the human capital and social development needs of Canadians. The program under this strategic outcome is Policy Research and Communication. Sub-Activities of Policy Research and Communication include: Strategic Policy, Knowledge Analysis and Evaluation, and Public Affairs and Stakeholders Relations.

All levels of the 2000-2009 Program Activity Architecture for 2008-2009 contribute to Results for Canadians, which is located to the right of the graphic.

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