The Center for Budget and Financial Management at the Performance Institute promotes excellence, transparency and accountability to government managers by providing the strategies and tools necessary to solve financial and budgetary issues.

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OMB Releases New Guidance and List of Programs to be Evaluated by PART for FY06

The White House has released the list of 217 federal programs to be evaluated using the Program Assessment Rating Tool with the FY06 Budget.

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Institute Hosts Forums on Congressional Use of Performance Budgeting

The Performance Institute hosted a pair of forums on Capitol Hill March 10 to further engage Congress on the federal program performance data generated by the White House Office of Management and Budget's Program Assessment Rating Tool. Using the PART as a starting point, Executive and Legislative officials, external stakeholders and experts dialogued on how to improve performance measures and subsequent evaluations applied to federal programs.

Education Forum
Wildland Fire Forum

President's FY05 Budget Delivers Big Dividends on Performance Budgeting

With the release of the President's '05 budget today, the federal government is taking another bold step towards a comprehensive "performance budgeting" system for the federal budget. Moreover, given that the President's budget uses performance information to eliminate 13 federal programs and save over $1 billion in federal funds, the use of performance budgeting offers opportunities to save taxpayers billions.

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Understanding How the PART, GPRA, and PMA are Related

Government agencies are often confused as to how the PART, GPRA, and PMA relate to each other. Understanding how they are integrated sheds light on the role each plays in improving performance in government. GPRA, established in 1993, still plays a pivotal role in the PMA and the PART as it focuses on strategic planning and performance measures. At a 2003 Best Practices Forum on Performance-Based Budgeting, Jeff Bergin, director of the Center for Government Performance at the Institute, discussed each performance mandate highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. He illustrated the role that PMA and GPRA play in successfully filling out the PART, as goals and measures established through PMA become evidence in agencies PART evaluations.

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Budget-Performance Integration at the National Weather Service

At the 2003 Best Practices Forum on Performance-Based Budgeting, Steven Gallagher, deputy chief information officer at the National Weather Service, (NWS) outlined the success they have experience in budget-performance integration, and in particular, their PART scores. NWS established a performance management framework which allows them to strive toward program performance on an annual and long-term basis and articulate the measures for success.

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We realize that bringing your whole office to a Performance Institute event is not always practical, which is why the Institute is proud to be able to customize its training programs and bring them directly to your office! Using our staff of experts and a faculty of instructors from government and the private sector, the Performance Institute can tailor the curriculum of any program to meet the specific needs of your department or agency.

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The Institute offers consulting to lead your program staff in applying the methodology framework for planning, managing, measuring and evaluating your educational programs. For more information on Institute consulting, please contact [email protected].