Federal Programs: Assessing and Improving Effectiveness
GAO’s work regularly finds that federal programs are unable to assess their performance to determine if they are solving the problem they were created to fix. By defining goals and collecting and using relevant data, agencies could make informed decisions to improve their programs’ results. The Big Picture Each year, the federal government spends trillions of dollars on programs that Americans depend on, such as health care, public safety, and disaster support. Our recent reports have found that many federal programs do not have clearly defined goals to identify what they seek to achieve or relevant data to assess progress. Without this information, Congress and agency leaders cannot determ.
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GAO’s work regularly finds that federal programs are unable to assess their performance to determine if they are solving the problem they were created to fix.
By defining goals and collecting and using relevant data, agencies could make informed decisions to improve their programs’ results.
The Big Picture Each year, the federal government spends trillions of dollars on programs that Americans depend on, such as health care, public safety, and disaster support.
Our recent reports have found that many federal programs do not have clearly defined goals to identify what they seek to achieve or relevant data to assess progress.
Without this information, Congress and agency leaders cannot determ…
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