GPRA Overview and Historic Reports

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The Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) is a public bipartisan law passed by Congress in 1993 (Public Law 103-62) to improve stewardship in the Federal Government by linking resources and management decisions with program performance. The law requires Federal programs to do the following:

Develop strategic plans that specify what will be accomplished over a 3 to 5 year period;
Annually set performance targets related to the strategic plan;
Annually report the degree to which the targets set in the previous year were met; and
Regularly conduct evaluations of programs and use those results to explain successes and failures based on performance data.

Every year NIH submits performance plan to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in June and September, respectively. The performance goals and targets included are representative, not comprehensive, and are used to extrapolate NIH’s overall success. NIH reports on program performance in January, and the report is submitted along with the Congressional Justification (CJ) to facilitate budget-performance integration.

NIH, comprising 27 Institutes and Centers (ICs), has one program – Research – with five functional areas: (1) Scientific Research Outcomes (SRO), (2) Communication and Transfer of Results (CTR), (3) Capacity Building and Research Resources (CBRR), (4) Strategic Management of Human Capital (SMHC), and (5) Program Oversight and Improvements (POI).

The Systemic Assessments Branch, located in the Division of Program Cordination, Planning and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI) within the Office of the Director, supports all activities related to organizational performance assessments, including the coordination and preparation of the GPRA Annual Performance Plans and Annual Reports.

GPRA Implementation at NIH:

· NIH GPRA Goal Information

· NIH FY 2009 Budget Request & Congressional Justification

NIH budget information can be accessed via the NIH Office of Budget website: NIH Office of Budget

Please click on a links below for additional GPRA information:

· GPRA Legislation and Guidance

· GPRA Implementation at HHS

· HHS FY 2009 Budget Documentations & Performance Information

· HHS Annual Performance Plan


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