USAID Mission Performance Plans (MPP)
USAID and the Department of State have issued a historic Joint State-USAID Strategic Plan
for FY 2004-2009. This historic Joint State-USAID Strategic Plan utilizes a strategic goal
framework that captures and articulates the agencies' highest priority goals and objectives
focusing on policy, program, and management direction. Complementing the Joint Plan's framework,
USAID is developing an Agency Policy Framework directed at "operationalizing"
the Joint State-USAID Strategic Plan and the many policy and strategic directives guiding
Agency program operations. USAID's performance management planning processes are driven by
senior leadership direction and coordination as described below:
USAID Performance Management Planning Process
| The Planning Process |
USAID |
Step #1
Mission Plans
Winter/Spring |
Each of USAID's missions prepares a Strategic Plan identifying key objectives, performance
targets, and resource requirements covering a five-year range. Every year an Annual Report
(AR) recaps the progress made by the missions in the year just passed, and outlines resource
requirements for the year ahead. Information from the AR feeds into an overall MPP, which
takes into account both USAID and Department of State activities. These plans are forwarded
upward for review by USAID bureaus and by the Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination. |
Step #2
Bureau Plans
Spring/Early Summer |
After the AR process is completed, each of USAID's regional and functional bureaus prepares a
Bureau Program and Budget Submission (BPBS) laying out goals, targets, and resource requirements
for the coming year. The BPBS documents are forwarded upward for review by Agency Assistant
Administrators (AA). |
Step #3
Agency Plans |
Using the planning and performance information contained in the BPBS, together with other
related information available at the national and international levels, USAID and the Department
of State develop a coordinated Joint Performance Budget (Plan). This budget focuses on the
highest priority issues facing both agencies, and is consistent with the Joint State-USAID
Strategic Plan. |
The Agency strategic planning document can be found online at the following link:
- FY 2004-2009 State-USAID Strategic Plan:
http://www.state.gov/m/rm/rls/dosstrat/2004/
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