WEBINAR: The Use of Performance Info for Budgeting Purposes in Latin America

Center for Accountability & Performance (Tues., Sept 24, 1 p.m. Eastern; Free)

This webinar will feature the use of performance information in Latin American countries by well-known authors in this area. Webinar attendees will hear about performance use at the local, country, and education policy domains. Presenters will elaborate on uses, challenges and opportunities in their respective practice, studies, and publications.

Evidence Matters More than Ever, Post-Chevron

Data Foundation

The Supreme Court’s ruling that overturns a 1984 precedent that courts should defer to federal agencies in interpreting ambiguous statutes has given rise to the need for Congress to enhance its own capacity to use evidence in the statutory drafting process. 

Senate Committee Adopts Financial Management Improvement Legislation

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

The committee voted out the Improving Federal Financial Management Act which requires agency chief financial officers to: “ be responsible for linking performance and cost information, including the preparation and submission to the head of the agency of timely performance reports that incorporate cost information;”

Presidents Need Foresight More Than Once Every Four Years. 

Toffler Associates

Released between Election Day and Inauguration Day, the Global Trends reports, prepared by the National Intelligence Council, have been prescient, open-source strategic intelligence products since 1997. They provide the President-elect (or the incumbent heading into a second term) with insights into the forces and uncertainties that will shape the context in which their administration will have to operate. But such insights should be prepared more frequently.

Resource of the Week:  Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence

Johns Hopkins University

Supporting and coaching leaders and their teams to build a data-driven public sector that fairly and justly uses data, research, and analytics to better understand complex issues, engage residents, and implement policy interventions that lead to equitable outcomes and transforms the standard of living for underserved residents.