8.6: Budget and Performance Integration

Achieve integration of budget and performance information

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How We Will Accomplish Our Objective - Develop Departmental Agency Performance Plans that align budget requests and priorities with national health and human services outcomes. - Develop Department-wide performance measures to measure overall, strategic direction in HHS crosscutting areas, such as measures of prevention and anti-bioterrorism efforts. - Prepare a One HHS Action Plan which integrates both budgeting and performance information into one report. - Use the Secretary’s Budget Council meetings to review information on program performance as well as how additional resources would be used to improve the program’s ability to meet its goals. - Require that the HHS agencies include full cost estimates in their FY 2005 performance plans and beyond. - Require HHS agencies to prepare an integrated performance budget in FY 2006 and beyond. - Implement a multi-part strategy for improving program effectiveness. - Implement a strategy for promoting accountability among program managers and other employees, including linking individual HHS employee performance assessment plans to strategic goals and objectives.

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