2002 DPR Session
The Horizontal and Government-wide View on Performance
May 14, 2002
Louise Bellefeuille-Prégent, Results Based Management Directorate
Table of Contents
Outline
- Canada's Performance
- Horizontal Results
- SUFA
Canada's Performance - What is it?
- President’s annual report on government performance - formerly called Managing for Results
- A report on the quality of life of Canadians:
- Economy
- Health
- Environment
- Communities
- Indicates the contribution of many departments and agencies
- Helps make sense of government for parliamentarians and Canadians
- Part of the planning cycle and management improvement agenda of the government
The Indicators
| Economic opportunities and innovation |
The Canadian environment |
- real gross domestic product per capita
- real disposable income per capita
- innovation
- employment
- literacy
- educational attainment
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- air quality
- water quality
- biodiversity (species at risk)
- toxic contaminants in the environment
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| The health of Canadians |
The strength of Canadian communities |
- life expectancy
- health status
- infant mortality
- physical activity
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- volunteerism
- attitudes toward diversity
- participation in cultural activities
- political participation
- safety and security
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Why this Report?
- Encourage results-based management:
- Program results, departmental and horizontal results, and societal outcomes
- Reinforce strategic outcome focus
- Create a "buzz" about results-based management
- Set a context for parliamentary review of Departmental Performance Reports
- Engage Canadians in public policy debate
- Complete the policy/program cycle
A whole-of-government approach to planning, resource allocation and reporting
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Canada’s Performance 2002: each chapter will include ...
- an ISSUE section:
- a brief description of the policy area in question and its links to the federal government’s central priorities, as set out in the Speech from the Throne
- a brief description of the roles of the federal government in that policy area
- a WHAT WE KNOW section:
- current data on the indicators, trend data, and international comparisons (wherever applicable)
- a PERFORMANCE INFORMATION section:
- profiling one departmental Strategic Outcome with results information
- listing other related Strategic Outcomes (with links to resources and results through departmental plans and performance reports)
- Last year’s report had a "Program Performance Information" section:
- highlighting one program with results information
- listing other programs contributing to the outcomes described in the chapter
Departmental performance in this context ...
- If possible, situate strategic outcomes in relation to the broad theme to which your department directly contributes
Strategic Outcomes Heritage:
Canadians connected to one another Solicitor General:
First Nations policing and corrections policy... |
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Strong and Safe Communities |
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This is a first step ...
- Not going to be perfect alignment of government performance to the four themes this year
- International efforts - link to Communities theme
- Corporate strategic outcomes are problematic
- Question of strategic outcomes which contribute to 2 or more themes
- Attribution can never be measured for societal-level outcomes (question of the government’s "contribution")
Contact: Tim Wilson (957-7048)
Horizontal Results
- What are "horizontal results"?
- results that are achieved through public policies, programs, and initiatives that involve more than one jurisdiction, department or partner in working towards shared objectives
- Why report on horizontal results?
- parliamentarians, standing committees and Canadians are requesting results information on issues that transcend departmental boundaries
Horizontal Results - in the DPR
- Discuss major horizontal initiatives and the results achieved in the body of the report
- Acknowledge the contribution of partners in the achievement of departmental Strategic Outcomes
- Template in the annex where departments are encouraged to provide information on other horizontal initiatives in which they are involved
Contact: Tom Fitzpatrick (952-3136)
SUFA
- Commits governments to be more transparent and accountable to Canadians on the outcomes of social initiatives
- Federal government has undertaken a pilot project to ensure we’re meeting these commitments
- 3 pilot departments and new volunteers reviewing selected programs through a SUFA accountability lens
- Reported out on these commitments in Canada’s Performance 2001
- Departments are encouraged to include how they are implementing the spirit or letter of SUFA in their DPRs and RPPs
- SUFA supports horizontal and departmental collaboration and results-based management
Contact: Mary Odorico (946-4667)
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