Our Performance Rating System
To assess performance results against established targets, the Agency applies a results rating methodology, which has been applied consistently to its results for FY 2004 and FY 2005. Program managers use this methodology to assign one of three performance ratings for a given result. Based on a combination of the established parameters shown below, managers assign a performance rating that reflects the extent to which a given target was achieved.
USAID Results Rating Methodology
| Performance Rating |
Below Target |
On Target |
Exceeds Target |
| Criteria |
Parameters |
| Target Status |
Missed FY 2005 target by a significant margin |
Met FY 2005 target |
Significantly exceeded FY 2005 target |
| Budget Status |
Spent significantly over budget |
Spent on budget |
Spent significantly under budget |
| Timeliness |
Missed most critical deadlines |
Met all critical deadlines |
Met most critical deadlines early |
| Impact on Future Operations |
Significantly impairs program's ability to achieve future years' performance
targets, requiring major downward revisions to future targets |
No change in program's ability to achieve future years' performance targets |
Significantly improves program's ability to achieve future years' performance
targets, requiring major upward increases to future targets |
This methodology represents an important step toward using a standard tool to evaluate the Agency's work. However, to correctly interpret the numerical analysis of the report, it is important to note the following:
- Target Weights: Beginning in FY 2005 USAID placed weights on targets for each annual goal to provide USAID with analytical information regarding the proportionality of targets to the overall goal achievement
- No Data Available: The Agency could not report on a large percentage of its FY 2005 performance results. In the majority of cases this was due to lagging, calendar year (CY)-based data, collected through USAID's Annual Report Database (ARD) process (which is not available until after mid-December each calendar year), and is therefore reported as a data lag. In cases where data estimation techniques could be applied to certain indicators and targets, those performance results are included, but are identified as preliminary. The Agency plans to publish as Addendum to the FY 2005, in April 2006, which will provide final, validated performance results information that will be generated on the basis of the ARD, the Agency's traditional data collection and analysis tool that generates performance data in the December timeframe each year. Each strategic goal chapter in the Performance Results section includes a table that identifies the number of Preliminary Results and data lags associated with that particular strategic goal.
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