Download or read book Managing for Results a Guide for Using the Gpra Modernization Act to Help Inform Congressional Decision Making written by Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide builds upon a large body of work we have conducted during the past two decades related to performance management in the federal government. This includes a number of products focused on enhancing the usefulness and use of performance information in congressional decision making, including our recent briefings to congressional staff on opportunities for Congress to address government performance issues.
Download or read book Managing for Results written by J. Christopher Mihm and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To help ensure that executive branch performance info. is useful to Congress, Congressional involvement on what to measure and how to present this info. is critical. Recognizing this, Congress updated the statutory framework for performance management in the fed. gov't. with the GPRA Modernization Act (GPRAMA), which significantly enhances the requirements for agencies to consult with Congress when establishing governmentwide and agency goals. This guide will assist members of Congress in: (1) ensuring the consultations required under GPRAMA are useful to the Congress; and (2) using performance info. produced by executive branch agencies in carrying out various congressional decision-making responsibilities. Illus. A print on demand report.
Download or read book Managing for Results written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.
Download or read book Managing for results written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book MANAGING FOR RESULTS Using GPRA To Help Congressional Decisionmaking and Strengthen Oversight written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GPRA (the government performance and results act of 1993)is a central component of a statutory framework that Congress has put in place over the last decade to improve the performance, management, and accountability of the federal government. Other major elements of the framework include financial management reforms, such a the Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act, and information resources management improvements, such as the Clinger-Cohen Act. Through this statutory framework, Congress has sought to improve the fiscal, program, and management performance of federal agencies, programs, and activities. The effective implementation of this statutory framework, although important, is not an end in itself. Rather, the implementation of the framework is the means to an end-improved federal performance through enhanced congressional and executive branch decisionmaking and oversight. Traditionally, the danger to any management reform is that it can become a hollow, paper-driven exercise where management improvement initiatives are not integrated into day-to-day activities of the organization. In short, performance improvements within an agency will not occur just because, for example, the agency has published a strategic plan or the results of an audit of its financial statements. Rather, performance improvements performance improvements occur only when congressional and executive branch decisionmakers use these and other documents-and the management systems that generate them-to help inform decisions and improve confidence in the accountability and performance of the federal government.
Download or read book Managing for Results written by David M. Walker and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Government Performance and Results Act arose, in part, out of Congress' frustration that its policy and spending decisions and oversight had been handicapped by a lack of precise information on program goals, performance, and costs. Today, agencies must set multiyear strategic goals and corresponding annual goals, measure their performance, and report on their results. The implementation of the act is now at a critical point. By the end of March, agencies are to publish annual performance reports that, for the first time, will provide an overall picture of the performance of federal programs. The information becoming available as a result of the act also affords an opportunity to reexamine what government does, how it does it, and who benefits. In short, the act has the potential to ensure that the government delivers the results that the American people expect and deserve. The Comptroller General's testimony provides an overview of the act's implementation across the executive branch, discusses how the House of Representatives has used the act to improve program oversight and decisionmaking, and suggests ways to use the act to address some of the critical program and management issues confronting the government.
Download or read book Managing for Results written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T-GGD-00-95 Managing for Results: Using GPRA to Help Congressional Decisionmaking and Strengthen Oversight
Download or read book Managing for Results Using GPRA to Assist Congressional and Executive Branch Decisionmaking written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report discusses how Congress can use the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) as it seeks to reduce the cost and improve the performance of the federal government. There is a broad consensus within the federal government, and among students of its institutions, that part of the solution to the federal government's fiscal problems must be better management of its programs and activities. The American people also are rightly demanding that government operate in a more efficient and businesslike manner. However, improving management in the federal sector will be no easy task, but GPRA can assist in accomplishing it. As its title indicates, GPRA'5 focus is on results. In crafting GPRA, Congress recognized that congressional and executive branch decisionmaking had been severely handicapped by the absence in many agencies of the basic underpinnings of well-managed organizations. Our work has found numerous examples of management-related challenges stemming from unclear agency missions; the lack of results-oriented performance goals; the absence of well-conceived agency strategies to meet those goals; and the failure to gather and use accurate, reliable, and timely program performance and cost information to measure progress in achieving results.
Download or read book Managing for Results written by U.s. Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " The federal government faces significant and long-standing fiscal, management, and performance challenges. The act's implementation offers opportunities for Congress and the executive branch to help address these challenges. This report is the latest in a series in which GAO, as required by the act, reviewed the act's initial implementation. GAO assessed the executive branch's (1) progress in implementing the act and (2) effectiveness in using tools provided by the act to address key governance challenges. To address these objectives, GAO reviewed the act, related OMB guidance, and past and recent GAO work related to federal performance management and the act; and interviewed OMB staff. In addition, to determine the extent to which agencies are using performance information and several of the act's requirements to improve agency results, GAO surveyed a stratified random sample of 4,391 federal managers from 24 agencies, with a 69 percent response rate which allows GAO to generalize these results. "
Download or read book Managing for Results GPRA Modernization Act Implementation Provides Important Opportunities to Address Government Challenges written by Gene L. Dodaro and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-09 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statement of Gene L. Dodaro, Comptroller Gen. of the U.S. The federal government is the world's largest and most complex entity, with about $3.5 trillion in outlays in FY 2010 that fund a broad array of programs and operations. GAO's long-term simulations of the federal budget show absent policy change growing deficits accumulating to an unsustainable increase in debt. While the spending side is driven by rising health care costs and demographics, other areas should also be scrutinized. In addition, there are significant performance and management challenges that the federal government needs to confront.This testimony discusses the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) Modernization Act of 2010 (GPRAMA), as the administration begins implementing the act. It is based on GAO's past and ongoing work on GPRA implementation, as well as recently issued reports (1) identifying opportunities to reduce potential duplication in government programs, save tax dollars, and enhance revenue; and (2) updating GAO's list of government operations at high risk due to their greater vulnerabilities to fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement, or the need for transformation. Figures. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book Managing for Results written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The GPRA Modernization Act of 2010 (GPRAMA) provides important tools that can help inform federal decision making. In implementing GPRAMA, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) established a strategic review process in which agencies, beginning in 2014, were to annually assess their progress in achieving each strategic objective, the outcome the agency is intending to achieve, in their strategic plans. To refine and illustrate the practices, GAO reviewed strategic review documentation and interviewed relevant officials from six selected agencies: USDA, Education, DHS, HUD, EPA, and NASA. GAO selected these agencies based on several factors. This included the extent to which agency strategic review processes had a greater chance of addressing areas identified in GAO's work on fragmentation, overlap, and duplication or high-risk issues, and agency results on selected items in GAO's 2013 survey of federal managers on performance and management issues.
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 Performance Management and Congressional Oversight written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managing for Results written by U.s. Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " GAO's work has repeatedly shown that federal agencies must coordinate better to achieve common outcomes. The act established a more crosscutting and integrated approach to achieving results and improving performance, including a requirement that agencies identified by OMB establish APGs. The act directs GAO to review its implementation at several junctures; this report is part of a series doing so. This report (1) examines the extent to which 24 agencies identified by OMB implemented selected requirements related to 102 APGs, and (2) comments on the 21 APGs of five selected agencies, based on prior GAO and IG work, including the status of relevant open recommendations. To address these objectives, GAO reviewed the act's requirements for APGs, OMB guidance, APG information from Performance.gov and related agency documents; and interviewed OMB officials. GAO selected DHS, HUD, DOT, VA, and OPM for their variety of APG program types and linkage to CAP goals. For each agency, GAO reviewed its past work, as well as that of IGs, related to the APGs and updated the status of open recommendations. "
Download or read book Managing for Results written by James F. Hinchman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managing for Results written by David Michael Walker and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managing for Results written by James F. Hinchman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
