“Both the GPRA (Government Performance and Results Act) Modernization Act of 2010 and the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 included requirements for the Federal government to bolster its use of performance information in decision making. GAO periodically reports on the progress made on these requirements, but this year is the first it has seen an increase in the use of performance information…”
“The Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) index score improved more than any other large agency and it responded positively to GAO’s findings.
VA attributed its index score to ‘leveraging our existing best practices in evidence use/evaluation, disseminating them widely, and providing a robust support structure to actively promote wide adoption.
‘VA also conducted enterprise-wide surveys of evidence/evaluator practitioners to provide their direct feedback to areas needing further improvement,’ the agency’s response to the report says. ‘VA continues to augment our robust governance approaches to embed evidence-based decision making more firmly in our framework.’…” Read the full article here.
Source: GAO Finds Increased Agency use of Performance Information – By Grace Dille, November 5, 2021. MeriTalk.
