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Integrated Management Practices – Action Plan

4. Accountability for Modern Comptrollership

a) Monitoring and Reporting Mechanisms

Progress on the IMP Action Plan will be mainly monitored by the IMP Steering Committee. Meetings will take place periodically, as needed, to evaluate progress on the various projects and provide direction. Reports to the Management Committee will be made through the chair of the IMP-SC. The IMP-SC is currently scheduled to wind down its activities in March 2004, coinciding with the scheduled closing of the IMP Project Office. The IMP project is however designated as a corporate project and, as such, follows a set monitoring and management regime. This includes progress reports to the Operations Committee three times a year and input into the reviews of the Operations budget which occur in the fall and winter each year.

Externally, a progress report will be presented to the Treasury Board in March 2004 and updates on the progress of the IMP project and descriptions of accomplishments will be reported annually in the Departmental Performance Report. Internally, periodic updates and progress reports will be posted on the Intranet.

b) Accountability Mechanisms

A project lead has been identified for each of the 18 projects in the Action Plan. In some cases, other people have specific responsibilities as well. The responsibilities and accountabilities included in the Action Plan have been integrated into the workplans of the project leads who will thus be accountable for progress. Their performance evaluation will take into account the extent to which they have met milestones and achieved their goals.