Government Strategy Document 2007
ISBN 978-952-5631-59-3 (printed), ISSN 0783-1609Publication 
(116 pages, 441 kb)
Abstract
On 5 December 2007, the Government issued a Resolution on the Government Strategy Document 2007. The Strategy Document enhances the means available to the Government for promoting, steering and monitoring the implementation of the Government Programme, especially in matters requiring intersectoral cooperation.
The Strategy Document contains the intersectoral policy programmes agreed in the Government Programme, namely: the policy programme for employment, entrepreneurship and worklife; the policy programme for health promotion; and the policy programme for the well-being of children, youth and families. In addition, the document includes a number of subject areas under special monitoring: climate and energy; know-how and innovations; revision of administration; restructuring of local government and services; social security, social exclusion and social security reform; preparing for ageing; security; and Finland’s international position. The Strategy Document also includes the central priorities and themes for sectoral research, the legislative plan, the agenda of reports to Parliament and the agenda of the Government’s resolutions.
The Strategy Document emphasises the indicators used in monitoring the implementation of the Government Programme. Most indicators describe the development of themes that are essential for the Government policy, while some indicators are process indicators that describe the progress of policy measures. The definition of indicators aims at a more thorough review and assessment of the realisation of the Government Programme that will be carried out, at the latest, when the Government has reached its mid-term point.
The measures defined in the Strategy Document are implemented within the framework of the overall spending limits and the State Budgets.