5.1: Accountability
Strengthening Accountability Other Information:
To ensure that we are making meaningful, measurable progress in performance, we are publicizing all goals and key metrics.
This transparency increases accountability for achieving results, and allows us to identify quickly areas of concern and opportunities
for improvement. For each of our six performance strategies and supporting initiatives, we are creating management dashboards
that pull together critical performance data and focus attention on progress toward defined measures and milestones. Early
examples of these dashboards include the previously mentioned IT Dashboard, and PaymentAccuracy.gov, which we launched earlier
this summer to provide transparency on our efforts to reduce improper payments. For each agency, PaymentAccuracy.gov provides
improper payments amounts, targets for reducing and recovering improper payments, and the name of the designated accountable
official responsible for meeting those targets. This type of transparency enhances agency accountability and allows the public
to track our progress. We are also enhancing the public’s ability to monitor how we spend their tax dollars. Recovery.gov
provides the public with transparency on how Recovery Act dollars are spent, who receives them, and what impact they have
on job creation. Building on Recovery.gov’s success, we are significantly expanding the level of detail on Federal spending
that resides on USASpending.gov. Beginning in FY 2011, the public will be able to track not only payments made by Federal
agencies to prime recipients, but also the payments made by those prime recipients to other entities, allowing the American
people to monitor Federal dollars throughout the spending process.
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