DoD SAPR Strategic Plan

DoD leadership shares a commitment to eliminating sexual assault from the Armed Forces. A comprehensive and synchronized effort ensures the entire Department is aligned in working toward this goal.

The Department is actively pursuing enduring culture change where every Service member is treated with dignity and respect; where all allegations of inappropriate behavior are treated with the utmost seriousness; where victim privacy is protected, and they are treated with sensitivity; where bystanders are motivated to intervene; and where offenders know they will be held appropriately accountable.

To that end, in May 2013, the Department published the 2013 Department of Defense (DoD) Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) Strategic Plan to capture strategic SAPR priorities, goals, objectives, actions and initiatives.

The DoD SAPR Strategic Plan is a multidisciplinary approach with initiatives in five lines of effort: prevention, investigation, accountability, advocacy / victim assistance and assessment. This approach was developed to achieve purpose and unity of effort across the Department.

The SAPR Strategic Plan, in addition to ongoing DoD SAPR efforts, provides a roadmap for the Department to establish the enduring culture of dignity and respect that is required of the military’s profession of arms.

The Secretary of Defense directed that the plan remain a dynamic document to be reviewed annually, and in 2014 the Department conducted the required review. The 2015 DoD SAPR Strategic Plan document available at the link below reflects the results of that review, as well as a continuation of the collaborative effort started in 2013.

Previous iterations of the DoD SAPR Strategic Plan can be viewed via the links below.