2004 DPR KickOff Strengthening Public Sector Management

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2004 DPR Kick-Off Strengthening Public Sector
Management

• Lee McCormackA/Associate Deputy Comptroller
  General Comptrollership Branch, TBSCrowne Plaza
  Ottawa Hotel, OttawaMay 14, 2004

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Management Agenda

• Strengthen comptrollership and improve oversight
• Review expenditures and modernize management
  practices
• Assure accountability, transparency, good
  governance and an enhanced role for Parliament
• Build public service capacity

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Enablers for the Management Agenda

• Review of Policy Suite
• Re-establishment of the Comptroller General
• Expenditure Review Committee
• Management Accountability Framework
• Program Activity Architectures

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Re-establishment of the Comptroller General

• Will report to the Secretary of the Treasury
  Board
• More focused mandate for the Treasury Board
  Secretariat
• Stronger financial controls
• Common and higher standards for comptrollers
  within departments
• Increased audit and evaluation capacity and
  activity

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Expenditure Review Committee

• Three types of reviews
• Government Operations
• Horizontal Policy and Program
• Departmental reviews
• Two sets of criteria
• Policy tests
• Implementation tests

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Management Accountability Framework
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Program Activity Architectures

• Reflect how an organization is structured and how
  accountabilities are managed
• Composed of
• Strategic outcomes
• Programs linked to strategic outcomes
• Actual and planned resource information for each
  element
• Performance measures and results for each element
• Governance structure

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Program Activity Architectures

• Improve management decision-making for
  departments, TB, Expenditure Review Committee
• Strengthen accountability and transparency of
  results to be achieved with resources allocated
• Assist in analysing issues across departments
• Provide information backbone for Expenditure
  Management Information System
• Provide more transparent, consistent basis for
  reporting to Parliament
• Help departments meet MAF expectations

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Implementation of new PAA policy

• Rescind the Planning, Reporting and
  Accountability Structure Policy
• Data gathering phased approach
• Training sessions
• PAA information for Expenditure Review Committee
  reviews in fall
• Plan to reflect in reports to Parliament
  beginning in 2005-2006

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A Need for Greater Accountability to Parliament

• Parliamentary committees need better information
  so that they can play a more active role in the
  Estimates process
• Departmental Performance Reports
• Key documents of accountability
• Important linkages
• to commitments in Reports on Plans and Priorities
• resources to results

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The Way Forward

• Challenging management agenda
• Make the most of information systems
• DPRs have improved, but more needs to be done
• Main focus of efforts
• Balance
• Linkage of performance to plans
• Linkage of resources to results
• Substantiating performance

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