Government Performance Logic Model

Government Performance Logic Model™

Input Activities and Outputs Intermediate Outcomes End Outcomes

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Goal: Protect Lives and Property Indicator: Reduce the # of structures lost as a result of wildland fire

Strategy One: Improve Preparedness and Suppression of Fires

-Improve to X% the number of unplanned and unwanted wildland fires controlled during initial attack. -Reduce to X or less the number of acres burned by unplanned and unwanted wildland fire

-Etc.

-# of fire management plans completed -# of fire management tools delivered to the field level -% of community firefighters trained to appropriate skill level -# of “Firewise” Workshops conducted

-Etc.

Illustration Using Goals, Measures and Strategies from Wildland Fire Management Program

Input Activities and Outputs Intermediate Outcomes End Outcomes


	In front of you is an example of the logic model applied to the Wildland Fire Management Program. As this diagram indicates, the end goal of the program is to protect lives and property. In order to measure success in the accomplishment of this goal, we have specified the indicator “reduce the number of structures lost as a result of wildland fire.”
	The Wildland Fire Program actually has four strategies:
	1) To suppress fires when they occur
	2) To stop fires from happening in the first place
	3) To restore the environmentally-friendly nature of fire, and
	4) To promote community capabilities
	But for simplicity sake, I have specified just one strategy for achievement of the goal of protecting lives and property. Once you have identified a strategy, you should brainstorm a list of measures to accompany it. Then refine that list to those that are most informative. In this example, we have selected the two most meaningful – improvement in the number of unplanned and unwanted wildland fires controlled and a reduction in the acreage burned by unplanned and unwanted wildland fire.
	The activities and outputs illustrate the ways in which the function-oriented programs partner with the mission-oriented programs to achieve agency goals. For instance, human resources has offered to do skills-based training for community firefighters. Other workload activities include the development of fire management plans and the delivery of “firewise” workshops and fire management tools.
	Now where did this methodology originate?