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Results-Oriented Accountability for Grants: The Office of Management and Budget and the Future of Federal Grants Management

Brette Fishman and Farrah Pappa BruMan Spring Forum May 8, 2019

Overview

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OMB AND GRANTS INTRODUCTION TO THE PRESIDENT’S MANAGEMENT AGENDA RESULTS-ORIENTED ACCOUNTABILITY FOR GRANTS CROSS AGENCY PRIORITY GOAL STAY INFORMED

OMB and Grants

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About: OMB serves the President in overseeing the implementation of his vision across the Executive Branch Mission: OMB’s mission is to assist the President in meeting his policy, budget, management, and regulatory objectives and to fulfill the agency’s statutory responsibilities Critical Processes:

• 1. Budget development and execution.
• 2. Management, including oversight of agency performance, human capital,

Federal procurement, financial management, and information technology.

• 3. Regulatory policy, including coordination and review of all significant

Federal regulations by executive agencies.

• 4. Legislative clearance and coordination.
• 5. Executive Orders and Presidential Memoranda.

OMB and Grants cont.

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Office of Federal Financial Management Mission Develop and implement coordinated policy with Federal Chief Financial Officers to assure that Federal financial management practices support effective delivery of service across the United States Federal government Responsibilities

• Implement financial management

improvement priorities

• Establish government-wide financial

management policies of executive agencies

• Carry out the financial management

functions of the CFO Act

Grants

Intro to the President’s Management Agenda

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The President’s Management Agenda (PMA) is a long-term vision for modernizing the Federal Government The PMA seeks to improve the ability of agencies to:

• Deliver mission outcomes,
• Provide excellent service, and
• Effectively steward taxpayer

dollars on behalf of the American people

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Across all CAP Goals, Government modernization will be rooted in the intersection of transforming technology, data, process, and people rather than working in silos. Cross-Agency Priority (CAP) Goals have been established to drive implementation of the President's Management Agenda (PMA). These Goals tackle critical government-wide challenges through the three Key Drivers

• f Transformation under the PMA.

KEY DRIVERS OF TRANSFORMATION

Intro to the President’s Management Agenda

Intro to the President’s Management Agenda

Results-Oriented Accountability for Grants Cross Agency Priority Goal

Maximize the value of grant funding by applying a risk-based, data driven framework that balances compliance requirements with demonstrating successful results for the American taxpayer. GOAL STATEMENT For more detailed information on the Grants CAP Goal visit us on Performance.gov

Results-Oriented Accountability for Grants Cross Agency Priority Goal

Reduce:

• Burden
• Duplication of effort
• Non-value add

requirements and activities Enhance:

• Mission
• Meeting program
• bjectives
• Performance

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Standardize Business Processes & Data Build Shared IT Infrastructure Manage Risk Achieve Program Goals & Objectives

Results-Oriented Accountability for Grants Cross Agency Priority Goal Strategies

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Manage Risk: Leverage data, including data from annual audits, to assess & manage recipient risk. Standardize Business Processes & Data: Standardize grants management business processes & identify, operationalize, standardize, & link data. Build Shared IT Infrastructure: Use standard business processes & data to identify opportunities to build shared solutions that reduce burden & improve the user experience. Achieve Program Goals & Objectives: Hold recipients accountable for good performance practices that support achievement of program goals & objectives; & streamline burdensome compliance requirements for those that demonstrate results.

Results-Oriented Accountability for Grants Cross Agency Priority Goal Strategies

Strategy 1: Standardize Business Processes & Data

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 Develop a comprehensive map of grants management core capabilities.  Solicit public comments on core grants management data.  Develop and execute a plan for government-wide grants management data standards implementation.

OBJECTIVES

• Develop a government-wide business process and standards for grants

management

• Work products will inform future shared IT infrastructure solutions for grants
• Reduce recipient burden and support faster and more transparent decision

making

Standardize Business Processes & Data: Standardize grants management business processes & identify, operationalize, standardize, & link data.

KEY MILESTONES

 Standardize core grants management data.

Strategy 2: Develop Shared IT Infrastructure

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 Draft Risk Management Business Capabilities  Develop single audit and risk management common solution prototype  Draft plan for implementation of standardized single audit and risk management solution for grants management

OBJECTIVES

• Use standard business processes and data to identify opportunities to build

shared solutions that reduce burden and improve the user experience

• Develop shared solutions that will increase access to and use of data to

support powerful analytics

• Leverage data analytics to inform risk-based performance management

KEY MILESTONES

Build Shared IT Infrastructure: Use standard business processes & data to identify opportunities to build shared solutions that reduce burden & improve the user experience.

 Conduct Single Audit and Risk Management Industry Demonstration Days

Strategy 2: Develop Shared IT Infrastructure – Success Story

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Build Shared IT Infrastructure: Use standard business processes & data to identify opportunities to build shared solutions that reduce burden & improve the user experience.

Strategy 3: Manage Risk

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 Draft Risk Management Framework  Develop draft 2019 Single Audit Compliance Supplement framework  Issue streamlined 2019 Single Audit Compliance Supplement

OBJECTIVES

• Identify practices and data tools to enable agencies to incorporate

performance into their grant award operations

• Assess current capabilities and pilot promising strategies
• Develop a framework so other agencies can leverage these practices

Manage Risk: Leverage data, including data from annual audits, to assess & manage recipient risk.

KEY MILESTONES

Strategy 4: Achieve Program Goals & Objectives

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 Conduct survey to identify promising performance practices  Identify emerging and innovative practices that are ripe for pilot testing

OBJECTIVES

• Hold recipients accountable for good performance practices
• Identify opportunities to leverage risk management to alleviate select

compliance requirements for recipients with strong performance practices

• Focus initial efforts on surveying and piloting promising performance

practices that may be scaled in the future

Achieve Program Goals & Objectives: Hold recipients accountable for good performance practices that support achievement of program goals & objectives; & streamline burdensome compliance requirements for those that demonstrate results.

KEY MILESTONES

Stay Informed!

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