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Accountability Plans
The public is demanding ever greater accountability of our public work.
Accountability Plans
Provide explicit rationales for decision-making when:
1. Choosing the program/project goals (outcomes of public and private value)
2. Identifying the target of change needed to reach goal(s)
3. Selecting the methods to achieve the change
4. Determining what success means
Accountability Plans: Two Faces
Detailed ever changing planning and development guidance document
for decision-making during planning, design, development, delivery and evaluation
regarding the effective and efficient use of resources (formative accountability)
Accountability Plans: Two Faces
Summary briefing states: Program/project main features and
processes Rationale for the program (why this, why
us, why is this important) Summary of outcomes - success and
failure (summative accountability)
For external stakeholders prior to, during and after the program/project
Accountability Planning is Powerful…
Formative Accountability
During planning, development and delivery document and find new ways to:
Increase efficiency of $, personnel, and resources
Leverage external resources Ensure effectively designed outputs Align outputs to desired public and private
outcomes
Accountability Planning is Powerful…
Summative Accountability
Provides transparent documentation of rationale for decision-making and measures of success for:
Funders and Authorizers Participants and those who pay for their
participation Public and private value Organization/Agency/Institution
Meeting The Triple Bottom Line for Public Work:
1. Agency/Organizational Mission
2. Financial/resources/organizational sustainability
3. Outcomes of public and private value
D. Herzfeld, 2000
Proposal
For a National Workshop
CTAG Work Group
Looking for ways to facilitate state C&T & PSEP programs in the implementation of organizational, state, and EPA performance measures
Dean Herzfeld, chair
Kathy Dictor
Carol Ramsay
Tim Drake
Proposal
National level workshopParticipants are state teams
– 1 SLA & 1 CES participant per teamMultiday program
Instructional Design
Hands on-learningCase study discussionsEach team develops an Accountability
Plan for a small real project of their choice
Workshop – Accountability Plans
Generic public sector version ‘business plan’ (Center for Farm Financial Management, U of MN) as a guide to…
Workshop – Accountability Plans
Generic public sector version of a ‘business plan’ Center for Farm Financial Management, U of MN) as a guide to…
Connect the boxes of the Logic Model (U of WI) for program/project design and implementation…
Workshop – Accountability Plans
Generic public sector ‘business plan’ (Center for Farm Financial Management, U of MN) as a public enterprise guide to…
Connect the boxes of the Logic Model (U of WI) for program/project design and implementation…
To maximize the public value return on investment via the Triple Bottom Line for Public Work*
*(P. Hutchinson, M. Moore, D. Herzfeld, others)
Proposal
We are using Accountability Planning in the development of this proposal….
…a critical step is to have you share your thoughts, ideas, value and suggestions
regarding the proposal
Discussion
1. Do you think an AP (full or partial) is a useful investment of time for your program/project?
2. Would you consider taking time to attend a multi-day course (3-4 days)?
Discussion
3. How much time in the course would you dedicate to: Overview/background/concepts? Hands-on logic model development
and critique? Development of each component of
the generic Accountability Plan?
Discussion
4. Would you be willing to pay a registration fee to bring in the "current experts in the field”?
5. Is there another topic of interest for training?
6. Does it outrank a course on Accountability Planning?