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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.
Congress, seeking to reduce the cost and improve the performance of the federal government, enacted the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (the Results Act) to improve federal program effectiveness and public accountability. This guide is intended to facilitate assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of agencies' annual performance plans in meeting both the requirements of the Results Act and congressional expectations that the plans inform Congress and the public about agencies' performance goals, including how they will accomplish them and how they will measure their results. This guide is organized around 3 core questions.