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ARCHIVED - Performance Reporting: Good Practices Handbook 2011

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Government of Canada Reporting Principles

The following Government of Canada Reporting Principles, taken together, show the link between plans, performance, and achievements, and their application demonstrates a departmental commitment to managing for results.

Principle 1: Focus on the benefits for Canadians, explain the critical aspects of planning and performance, and set them in context.

Clearly present the program activity architecture (PAA).
Discuss priorities within the context of the Management, Resources and Results Structure (MRRS).
Link to the whole-of-government framework.
Demonstrate links to broader government priorities.
Discuss challenges, risks, opportunities, and their impact on plans and performance.
Discuss horizontal links.
Describe delivery mechanisms.
Include responses to parliamentary committees and findings of the Office of the Auditor General of Canada.

Principle 2: Present credible, concise, reliable, and balanced information.

Use the MRRS as the basis of reporting.
Report positive and negative aspects of performance.
Provide factual, independently verifiable, evidence-based performance information.
Provide informative financial tables.
Use comparisons and trends.
Provide links to further information.

Principle 3: Associate performance with plans, priorities, and expected results, explain changes, and apply lessons learned.

Link performance to plans.
Discuss lessons learned and corrective actions.

Principle 4: Link resources to results.

Link resources to results.
Discuss changes in resources.

To use and navigate this resource, explanations and illustrations of how to apply the Government of Canada Reporting Principles when preparing performance reports are provided. For each Government of Canada Reporting Principle and related criteria, a link to an example in a DPR is given that demonstrates a commendable and effective application of the Reporting Principle.