Performance Partnership Agreement Reporting Sample Clauses

Performance Partnership Agreement Reporting. For the 2005 - 2007 Agreement, the Department will continue to produce six-month status reports for the listed five “Areas for Collaboration” (refer to Section III). Department staff will continue to produce quarterly, internal work plan progress reports for DES management through the Measures Tracking and Reporting System (MTRS) database, and will continue to provide EPA New England with an annual assessment of progress. However, several changes are envisioned for reporting progress to EPA New England in 2005 and beyond. New to this Agreement, (as described in Section VI), is an updated 2005 work plan that is embedded within the Department’s Strategic Plan framework. The scope of the detailed work plan has been limited by including only those DES-identified key deliverables necessary to achieve the listed sub-goals and objectives, plus, only those deliverables which EPA New England identified as critical in their 2005 EPA New England Performance Partnership Agreement Guidance Document for NH, dated August 2004. As a result, the FFY 2005 DES Strategic Work Plan has been reduced in length by half, as compared with the FFY 2003 and 2004 Work Plans. Despite physically reporting less information via this new work plan format, DES will actually be able to gather data of greater strategic value because not only will progress be reported on each included deliverable, a summarized status report is also provided for each DES strategic objective, as well as progress on a developmental set of outcomes and environmental indicators. The new format will result in “one-stop shopping” as far as understanding the relationships between the progress on the detailed, short-term work plan, the longer-term strategic sub-goals and objectives, and the related outcome and environmental indicator measures. One additional expected change for 2005 and future reporting years is for the Department to do a better job of interpreting and summarizing end-of-year reporting data. Past annual assessments have been largely comprised of detailed reports with little analysis of “what worked,” “what did not work,” and “actions to prevent or correct problems from reoccurring.” In short, future DES annual assessments should better summarize results, focusing on where the agency had difficulty in achieving anticipated progress on deliverables, and where DES may be falling behind on specific strategic objectives. With regard to the outcomes and environmental indicators, much work needs to be done to...