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The audited departments should complete performance measurement strategies for all programs, collect complete performance data, and implement quality assurance processes for ongoing performance information.

1)     Regarding the completion of performance measurement strategies, Fisheries and Oceans Canada is nearing completion of its Performance Measurement Action Plan concerning the development of performance measurement strategies. Of the total 40 performance measurement strategies for the Department, 17 have been approved by the Chief Financial Officer, 9 are at the final program review and approval stage, and the remaining 14 are nearing completion (note that 7 of these are for internal services and hence not mandatory, but are under development).

January 30, 2013 (completed as of December 2012)

Chief Financial Officer

All Program Alignment Architecture programs have completed their performance measurement strategies, which have been approved by the Chief Financial Officer in December 2012. 

2)     Regarding the collection of complete performance data, implementation of the approved performance measurement strategies will start in the winter of 2013.

March 31, 2014

Chief Financial Officer

Implementation of the completed and approved performance measurement strategies was initiated in the winter of 2013. The initial, implementation pilot-phase, tested key departmental implementation tools and processes with selected programs. This was followed by full departmental implementation starting in April, 2013.

3)     Regarding the implementation of quality assurance processes for ongoing performance information:

•          by July 2013 the Evaluation Directorate will develop a risk-based methodology for monitoring the implementation of the performance measurement strategies.

•          by 31 March 2014, the Evaluation Directorate will have started monitoring the implementation of performance measurement strategies, targeting 100 percent of high-risk strategies, 50 percent of medium-risk strategies, and 25 percent of low-risk strategies.

March 31, 2014 (completed as of July 2013)

Chief Financial Officer

The Evaluation Directorate developed a risk-based methodology for monitoring the implementation of the performance measurement strategies. The risk-based process mechanism is captured through the submission of a quarterly report by each program. The quarterly report will identify programs that have not initiated implementation, their challenges, successes, process issues and stages of completion.

Monitoring of the strategies will begin following submission of the first quarterly report July 2013. The monitoring date has been moved up to July 2013 from March 2014 to coincide with the initial submission of the quarterly reports and to enable the Evaluation Directorate to apply the risk-based methodology at an earlier stage of implementation. This will help to identify high-risk programs at the initial stages of implementation rather than the later stages.