Introduction

This report outlines the performance of the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (CCRA) in implementing its sustainable development (SD) strategy during the period April 1, 2000, to March 31, 2001. During the year we focused on three major activities:

• advancing our 1997 SD commitments (see Section A);
• evaluating our overall SD progress (see Section B); and
• preparing the new SD strategy for 2001-2004 (see Section C).

Through these processes and activities, we created momentum, increased our SD capacity, and augmented the significance of SD within the CCRA.

The 1997 strategy had three goals that were supported by 92 targets. Twenty-one of those targets had completion dates that extended beyond the life of the current SD strategy, which ended in March 2001. The goals were to enhance internal capacities (24 targets), integrate SD into key management frameworks (six targets), and reduce the impact of CCRA operations on the environment (62 targets). Of the 71 targets scheduled for completion within the three-year life of the SD strategy, 40 (or 56%) targets were achieved, 26 are in progress, 4 were modified, and 2 were dropped.

For the current reporting period, 13 targets were scheduled for completion. Of that number, six were completed and the remaining seven are in various stages of progress. An additional 19 targets brought over from the previous period were completed, bringing the total number of targets completed in this period to 25.

Date modified:

2003-02-06