Download or read book Agencies Annual Performance Plans Under the Results Act written by L. Nye Stevens and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999-11 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facilitates congressional use of Fed. agencies' annual performance plans. The Results Act requires the plan to (1) identify annual performance goals and measures for each agency's program activities, (2) discuss the strategies and resources needed to achieve annual performance goals, and (3) provide an explanation of the procedures the agency will use to verify and validate its performance data. This guide is organized around 3 questions that correspond to these requirements. For each question, it identifies issues that need to be addressed and presents key assessment questions that can help users elicit the cost and performance info. relevant to their decisionmaking.
Download or read book Agencies Annual Performance Plans Under the Results Act written by United States. General Accounting Office. General Government Division and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Results Act an evaluator s guide to assessing agency annual performance plans written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managing for Results written by Benjamin F. Nelson and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Results Act shifts the focus of gov't. decisionmaking & accountability away from a preoccupation with the activities to a focus on the results of those activities. Government agencies are to develop strategic plans, annual performance plans, & annual performance reports. This report is based on reviews of 24 major agencies' strategic plans that were formally submitted to Congress by Sep. 30, 1997. The report: summarizes observations on agencies' plans; & provides additional info. on how the next phase of the Results Act's implementation -- performance planning & measurement -- can be used to address the critical planning issues observed in reviewing the strategic plans.
Download or read book Agencies Annual Performance Plans Under the Results Act written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO published an assessment guide to facilitate congressional use of agencies' performance plans developed under the Government Performance and Results Act, focusing on the: (1) annual performance goals and measures for each agency's program activities; (2) strategies and resources needed to achieve annual performance goals; (3) procedures the agency will use to verify and validate its performance data; and (4) issues that need to be addressed, and key assessment questions that can help congressional users elicit the cost and performance information on the Results Act's planning and reporting requirements as well as related guidance on annual performance plans.
Download or read book Managing for Results written by Johnny C. Finch and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agencies Annual Performance Plans Under the Results Act written by United States. General Accounting Office. General Government Division and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agency Performance Plans written by Alan M. Stapleton and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gov't. Performance and Results Act of 1993 seeks to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability of Fed. programs by establishing a system for agencies to set goals for program performance and to measure results. In 1998 a report summarized observations on agencies' plans and identified opportunities to improve the usefulness of future performance plans (PP). This report builds on those improve. opportunities by: identifying and describing practices that were applied in some PP that might improve the usefulness of all agencies' annual PP; and providing examples from agencies' FY 1999 PP that illustrate each practice.
Download or read book Agencies Annual Performance Plans Under the Results Act written by United States. General Accounting Office. General Government Division and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agencies Annual Performance Plans Under the Results ACT written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AGENCIES' ANNUAL PERFORMANCE PLANS UNDER THE RESULTS ACT: An Assessment Guide to Facilitate Congressional Decisionmaking GO/GGD/AIMD-10.1.18
Download or read book Managing for Results Agencies Annual Performance Plans Can Help Address Strategic Planning Challenges written by General accounting office washington dc general government div and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is based on our reviews of 24 major agencies' strategic plans that were formally submitted to Congress and 0MB by September 30, 1997. To do these reviews, we used the Results Act supplemented by OMB's guidance on developing the plans (Circular A-11, part 2) as criteria to determine whether the plans contained the six elements required by the Act. As agreed, we focused our reviews on the progress of agencies' strategic planning efforts, specifically their efforts to improve their strategic plans, with particular attention to the key planning challenges that are most in need of sustained attention. Agencies included in our analysis are listed in appendix 1, and our observations on individual agencies are summarized in appendixes II through XXV. To gather information on how annual performance planning and measurement could be used to address the critical planning challenges we observed in our reviews of the September plans, we relied on our recent report on critical challenges needing sustained attention, our report on government wide implementation of the Results Act, our guidance for congressional review of Results Act implementation, and our guidance on effectively implementing the Act. On the whole, agencies' September plans appear to provide a workable foundation for Congress to use in helping to fulfill its appropriations, budget, authorization, and oversight responsibilities and for agencies to use in setting a general direction for their efforts. These plans represent a significant improvement over the draft plans we reviewed last summer. For example, we found that all but six of the draft plans were missing at least one element required by the Results Act, and about a third were missing two of the six required elements. In contrast, the September plans we reviewed contained at least some discussion of each element required by the Act.
Download or read book Managing for Results written by J. Christopher Mihm and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Government Performance & Results Act of 1993 seeks to shift the focus of government perform. & accountability away from a preoccupation with activities to a focus on the results or outcome of those activities. This report provides summary information based on a review & evaluation of the FY 2000 performance plans of the 24 agencies covered by the Chief Financial Officers Act. It summarizes the extent to which the agencies' plans include three key elements of informative perform. plans: (1) clear pictures of intended performance, (2) discussions of strategies & resources, & (3) credible perform. information. Discusses the major strengths & key weaknesses of FY 2000 performance plans.
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Download or read book Results Act written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) annual performance plan for fiscal year (FY) 1999, focusing on whether OPM's plan complies with the statutory requirements and congressional intent as contained in the Government Performance and Results Act and related guidance. GAO noted that: (1) OPM's annual performance plan addresses the six program components required by the Results Act; (2) the plan has several performance goals and measures listed under each of its five strategic goals as identified in OPM's September 1997 strategic plan; (3) some of these goals and measures are objective and quantifiable, providing a way to judge whether the goal has been achieved; (4) the plan also lays out, very well, a clear linkage between the FY 1999 performance goals and OPM's mission and strategic goals and also between its goals and its specific program activities and related funding as presented in its 1999 budget; (5) the principal area in which the performance plan could be improved to better meet the purposes of the Results Act is in the statement of its goals; (6) OPM's annual performance plan goals, like those in its strategic plan, tend to be process or activity goals; (7) the Results Act, in contrast, envisions a much greater emphasis on outcome goals that state what overall end result the agency will achieve, such as increasing the effectiveness of the federal civilian workforce; (8) Congress sought this emphasis to help ensure that processes and activities that agencies undertake actually add up to a meaningful result that is commensurate with the resources expended; and (9) OPM's annual performance plan could also be improved by including more discussion on how its resources will be used to achieve its goals and adding a discussion of known data limitations that may affect the validity of various performance measures that OPM plans to use.
Download or read book Managing for results critical issues for improving federal agencies strategic plans report to congressional requesters written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Results Act written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO reviewed the General Services Administration's (GSA) fiscal year (FY) 1999 annual performance plan, which was submitted to Congress as required by the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993. GAO noted that: (1) GSA's performance plan has several performance goals for each of its strategic goals; (2) some of its performance goals and measures are objective and quantified and provide a way to compare actual to planned performance; (3) in addition, the plan contains some goals and measures that involve comparisons of GSA and the private sector; (4) however, for the most part, the plan falls short of meeting the criteria set forth in the Results Act and related guidance; (5) it does not adequately provide a clear picture of expected performance across the agency because: (a) like the goals in its strategic plan, many performance goals, and related measures, are not quantifiable or results oriented; (b) performance plan goals are not always linked to the specific program activities and funding in its budget; and (c) also like the strategic plan, the performance plan does not discuss GSA's coordination efforts for many crosscutting activities; (6) GAO also found that the performance plan generally does not have an explicit discussion of the strategies and resources that will be needed to achieve goals or the external factors that will affect accomplishment of the goals; and (7) although the plan includes a discussion of how GSA plans to verify performance data that provides partial confidence that performance information will be credible, it does not discuss the actions GSA has taken or will take to address known data limitations.
Download or read book Agency Performance Plans Examples Of Practices That Can Improve Usefulness to Decisionmakers 161733 U S GAO written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Government Performance and Results Act seek to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability of federal programs by requiring agencies to set program goals and measure results. Under the Act, agencies are to prepare annual performance plans to systematically provide decisionmakers with information on the results to be achieved for a proposed level of resources. Fiscal Year 1999 marks the first time that agencies across government were to prepare annual performance plans covering each program activity in their budgets. This report (1) identifies and describes practices that were applied in some plans that might, if consistently applied, improve the usefulness of all agencies annual performance plans, and (2) provides examples from agencies' fiscal year 1999 performance plans that illustrate each practice.
