In response to the need for the Chesapeake Bay Program to unify the numerous planning documents -- such as annual budgets, Chesapeake 2000, organizational strategic plans, and statutory and congressional requirements -- CBP partners have developed a strategic framework composed of the six goal strategies. Each goal strategy includes the goal, a rationale that explains why the goal is important for protecting and restoring the Bay, the desired results and a set of implementation strategies to achieve each desired result.
The implementation strategies account for the activities underway to meet the expectations of existing CBP planning documents. Progress toward the desired result is measured by the realistic annual targets the CBP partners have developed and is communicated in CBP’s dashboards. The unification of pre-existing planning documents in this format allows the CBP partners to share a common understanding of the partnership’s work agenda and, through the development of realistic annual targets, establishes a uniform set of measures to evaluate CBP partners’ progress in improving the Bay.
Each of the six goal areas includes a summary version of the strategic framework and goal strategies: