Agency Performance Plans: Examples of Practices That Can Improve Usefulness to Decisionmakers

GGD/AIMD-99-69 Published: Feb 26, 1999. Publicly Released: Feb 26, 1999.

Highlights

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO: (1) identified and described practices that were applied in some federal agencies' 1999 performance plans that might, if consistently applied, improve the usefulness of all agencies' annual performance plans; and (2) provided examples from agencies' fiscal year 1999 performance plans that illustrate each practice.

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