Performance Reporting Reimagined

U.S. Office of Management and Budget

Current federal agency performance reports are on the web, but tend to be complex and hard to navigate. OMB staff are piloting a way of reimagining this information. Here’s a link to a digital prototype.

Piloting a Federal Evaluation Approach for Cross-Agency Initiatives: A Test Case

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Asst. Sec. for Program Evaluation

HHS has engaged staff from across the Department to develop and test an approach for evaluating initiatives that involve multiple divisions, address the needs of a diversity of communities, and include varied approaches. Their test case looks at Overdose Prevention initiatives.

Does Program Evaluation Make a Difference in Policy Spending?

London School of Economics (Michelle Rao)

This is an intriguing paper that examines the relationship between program evaluations and changes in policy spending in a series of Latin American cash transfer programs. The author examined 128 program evaluations of these programs and concludes, “I find zero relationship between research results and spending.”

Resource of the Week:  Symposium on the Government Performance and Results Act at 30

International Journal of Public Administration

The symposium on GPRA is finally finished! Here’s a link to the table of contents and abstracts for each article. The full articles, however, are pay-walled.