United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office General Government Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1999-02-26 monographic deposited born digital 55 p. GA 1.13:GGD/AIMD-99-69 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GGD-AIMD-99-69 P0b002ee18037f8eb f:gg99069 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-GGD-AIMD-99-69 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GGD-AIMD-99-69 GGD/AIMD-99-69 Reporting requirements Program evaluation Performance measures Strategic planning Private sector practices Interagency relations Data integrity GPRA Government Performance and Results Act Pell Grant Federal Family Education Loan Program William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program Letter Report GGD AIMD

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO: (1) identified and described practices that were applied in some federal agencies' 1999 performance plans that might, if consistently applied, improve the usefulness of all agencies' annual performance plans; and (2) provided examples from agencies' fiscal year 1999 performance plans that illustrate each practice.<p/>GAO noted that: (1) opportunities to improve the usefulness of annual plans include: (a) creating a set of performance goals and measures that addresses important dimensions of program performance and balances competing priorities; (b) using intermediate goals and measure to show progress or contribution to intended results; (c) including explanatory information on the goals and measures; (d) developing performance goals to address mission-critical management problems; (e) showing baseline and trend data for past performance; (f) identifying projected target levels of performance for multiyear goals; and (g) linking the goals of component organizations to departmental strategic goals; (2) to coordinate crosscutting programs, agencies should: (a) identify programs that contribute to the same or similar results; (b) set complementary performance goals to show how differing program strategies are mutually reinforcing and establishing common or complementary performance measures, as appropriate; and (c) describe--briefly or refer to a separate document--planned coordination strategies; (3) to show how strategies will be used to achieve goals, agencies should: (a) link strategies and programs to specific performance goals and describe how they will contribute to the achievement of those goals; (b) describe strategies to leverage or mitigate the effects of external factors on the accomplishment of performance goals; (c) discuss strategies to resolve mission-critical management problems; and (d) discuss--briefly or refer to a separate document--plans to ensure that mission-critical processes and information systems function properly and are secures; (4) to show performance consequences of budget and other resources decisions, agencies should: (a) show how budgetary resources relate to the achievement of performance goals; (b) discuss--briefly and refer to the agency capital plan--how proposed capital assets (specifically information technology investments will contribute to achieving performance goals; and (c) discuss--briefly or refer to a separate plan--how the agency will use its human capital to help achieve performance goals; and (5) to build the capacity to gather and use performance information, agencies should identify internal and external sources for data. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GGD-AIMD-99-69/html/GAOREPORTS-GGD-AIMD-99-69.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GGD-AIMD-99-69/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GGD-AIMD-99-69.pdf GAO/GGD/AIMD-99-69 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GGD-AIMD-99-69 Letter Report GAO/GGD/AIMD-99-69; Agency Performance Plans: Examples of Practices That Can Improve Usefulness to Decisionmakers; Reporting requirements Program evaluation Performance measures Strategic planning Private sector practices Interagency relations Data integrity GPRA Government Performance and Results Act Pell Grant Federal Family Education Loan Program William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program Title 5 Section 306(c) 5 U.S.C. 306(c) Title 31 Section 1115 Title 31 Section 1115(a)(1) Title 31 Section 1115(a)(2) Title 31 Section 1115(a)(3) Title 31 Section 1115(a)(4) Title 31 Section 1115(a)(5) Title 31 Section 1115(c) Title 31 Section 9703 31 U.S.C. 1115 31 U.S.C. 1115(a)(1) 31 U.S.C. 1115(a)(2) 31 U.S.C. 1115(a)(3) 31 U.S.C. 1115(a)(4) 31 U.S.C. 1115(a)(5) 31 U.S.C. 1115(c) 31 U.S.C. 9703 S. Rept. 103-58