Five criteria—leadership commitment, capacity, action plan, monitoring, and demonstrated progress—“form a road map for efforts to improve and ultimately address high-risk issues,” GAO told a Senate roundtable on government management improvement.
That list is closely monitored by Congress and is features prominently in oversight and budgeting decisions, in particular for the many programs that appear on it year after year.
Addressing some of the criteria leads to an agency being credited by GAO as having made progress, while satisfying all of the criteria is central to removal from the list, it said.
On the most recent list, most programs either “met” or “partially met” the criteria of leadership commitment but only “partially met” the remaining four criteria, an official said.
The next update is scheduled for issuance in early 2017.
