Reporting Principles Taking Public Performance Reporting to a New Level © 1 Reporting Principles: Taking Public Performance Reporting to a New Level Copyright © 2002 CCAF~FCVI Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a data base or retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher, CCAF~FCVI Inc. Published by CCAF~FCVI Inc. 55 Murray St., Suite 210 Ottawa, Ontario CANADA K1N 5M3 (613) 241–6713 Fax (613) 241–6900 Email:
[email protected] ISBN 0-919557-64-3 Printed and bound in Canada. Printing by Poirier Litho. Publication coordination by Marta Arnaldo Foreword is a national, non-profit research and education foundation. For more CCAF than twenty years it has researched public sector governance, accountability, management and audit, and provided capacity development support to governing body members, managers and auditors. The foundation’s core interests centre on information and its role in a variety of public sector governance, accountability, management and audit settings. CCAF is pleased to release Reporting Principles: Taking Public Performance KEY CONCEPTS Reporting to a New Level. This document At its core, “performance” is about how well an aims to help governments advance the quality of their formal reporting on performance, in entity or program is accomplishing what is intended keeping with the results-oriented and values- as measured against defined goals, standards or based approaches they are taking. Better criteria. More broadly, performance may also relate communication, understanding and transparency to efforts, capabilities and intent.