Accountability and Performance Update – Mar 16-22, 2026

Performance Management Checklist

Barrett & Greene

Here’s a handy checklist of a dozen proven pieces of advice to improve your organization’s performance management system!

How You Count Matters!

Bloomberg News

Traffic death statistics in the US may be misleading. By emphasizing the number of people killed per mile rather than deaths per capita, traffic safety groups risk normalizing the factors that make American roads so deadly. 

Improving Federal Information Transparency

U.S. Government Accountability Office

Recent GAO testimony summarizes its work in four areas where improving information transparency in federal spending and programs. These include: federal spending, improper payments, program inventory, and FOIA request processing. 

Resource of the Week: Resources to Increase Your Impact

Performance.gov

The homepage for the federal government’s main performance website is fairly vacuous, but buried beneath it is a useful gold mine of references and playbooks to help improve agency and program performance.

2026 CAP Recognition Awards

Harry Hatry Distinguished Performance Management Practice Award – David Bernstein

Joseph Wholey Distinguished Scholarship Award – Ting Huang

Organizational Leadership Award – County Auditor’s Office, Multnomah County, Oregon

Emerging Leaders Award – Courtney Hall, Kylie Jackson, and Howard Waldie, IV

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